Just because most deals will be done late on doesn't mean
a) there will be many of them or
b) Forest will get any, or at least any that they want.
No one is going to panic at any stage, but the reality is that it is unlikely the current squad is good enough to compete in the championship, even on a survival level, especially with injuries, suspensions etc. As of nearly August, nothing has been done to remedy that.
32 days of the window to go is nothing. Forest are miles off agreeing a fee for their core targets. They haven't attempted any of the vital squad filler signings to insulate us from the injuries etc that we know full well we'll experience. Nothing has been done to at least put us on a base from which we could be confident of survival, before making the signings that would then push us further.
It's a ludicrously high risk strategy.
If I were an outsider looking in, I would assume two things;
1) Forest are in big financial trouble, have made cuts accordingly and can't afford to even be in the market (I suspect in reality this isn't the case)
2) I would be putting a quiet tenner on forest to go down. Probably a double with Derby.