Manager Steve Cotterill must prepare his side for a vital home game against Burnley while also looking to wheel and deal in the market for the new players the Reds desperately need to take them away from the Championship's relegation zone.
The balance appears to have been tipped towards Wes Morgan not being available for the Burnley game and instead becoming a Leicester City player in time for their home clash with Middlesbrough on Wednesday night.
While depriving the manager of a player he rates highly the departure of Morgan looks to be the only way that Cotterill will be able to make signings of his own with little interest seemingly in other, less influential members of the Forest squad.