NOTTINGHAM Forest forward Taiwo Awoniyi has had groin surgery that will rule him out of action for months, the Premier League club's manager Steve Cooper said. Awoniyi aggravated a groin injury while playing for Nigeria during this month's international break. The 26-year-old, signed from Union Berlin for a then club-record fee of 17 million pounds ($21.18 million) in 2022, has scored 15 goals in 39 games in all competitions for Forest in the last two seasons. "It's bad news on Taiwo, he's had to have surgery and he is going to be out for months," Cooper told reporters ahead of…