Nottingham Forest snap up Armand Traore on free transfer

Nottingham Forest have signed free agent defender Armand Traore on a three-year deal.

The 26-year-old was released by Queens Park Rangers in June having failed to make a single appearance for the club since April 2015.

Traore, who has also played for the likes of Arsenal and Juventus, appeared 93 times for QPR and was part of the side that secured a return to the Premier League via the playoffs in 2014.

The Senegal international will officially join Forest on August 1, with his contract keeping him at the City Ground until 2019.

Traore is the fourth defender and sixth new signing overall for Forest this summer, following in the footsteps of Thomas Lam, Damien Perquis, Hildeberto Pereira, Stephen Henderson and Apostolos Vellios.