Clingan joined Forest from Wolves in January 2006 just after he had completed a loan spell at Chesterfield, so far he has made 70 appearances for Forest scoring just the once he has also made 15 appearances for Northern Ireland and it is while playing for his country its reported he came to the attention of Jim Magilton who covers some Northern Ireland games for the BBC.
The 24-year-old is out of contract at the City Ground in the summer so where the tabloids got the £1 million price tag from is beyond me at the moment.
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