Former Newcastle coach Steve McClaren is set for a return to football with one of the Reds' Championship rivals.
The 55-year-old has been without work since leaving Newcastle United in March, prior to their appointment of Rafael Benitez.
According to reports in the Sun, McClaren is set to join struggling QPR in a senior role and help beleaguered boss and former Forest coach Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
The pair are friends away from football, and worked together at Middlesbrough as well as at the City Ground, during McClaren's ill-fated 13-game stay on the banks of the Trent five years ago.
QPR have endured a difficult start to life in the Championship and are in the midst of a four-game losing run, which included a 6-0 mauling at home to Newcastle last week, before being knocked out of the League Cup by Sunderland on Wednesday evening.