Nottingham Forest new boy Will Hoskins is backing himself to kick-start his career at The City Ground.

The 21 year old Watford striker has agreed to join The Reds on loan for the remainder of the season and is poised to make his debut in Saturday's home game against Millwall. Hoskins, who hails from Nottingham, has struggled to make an impact at Watford since joining them from Rotherham 13 months ago and is relishing the opportunity of taking centre-stage with Forest.

"I want to score goals for Forest in front of fans from my home town," he said.

"I'm not exactly sure why things haven't gone particularly well for me at Watford but that has made me even more determined to make a success of my time at Forest."

Hoskins will join Forest with a view to a permanent £500,000 switch and he added:

"I'm more interested in the immediate future rather than what might happen.

"In football you never know what might happen - my immediate aim is to score goals for Forest and help them try and get promotion. That would be special."

The formalities of the loan deal will be completed on Friday when the emergency loan market reopens for business after a seven-day break at the end of the January transfer window.

It is anticipated that Hoskins will be allocated squad number 11 vacated by Scott Dobie when he moved to Carlisle last month.