Nottingham Forest are naturally going to be facing some interest from other clubs in their players after a brilliant campaign, with Morgan Gibbs-White proving extremely sought-after.
The Forest vice-captain scored for the second game in succession at the weekend, with Gibbs-White paying tribute to Taiwo Awoniyi after bagging against West Ham.
Gibbs-White is very much the man of the moment for Forest and since signing for the club in the summer of 2022, he’s grown as a player with each passing season.
Now, he’s firmly in the sights of a number of clubs and Evangelos Marinakis will need to drive a rather hard bargain if Forest are going to be resigned to losing him this summer.
Fabrizio Romano delivers update on Morgan Gibbs-White
The bad news for Forest is that Manchester City have admitted defeat in the quest to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen this summer, believing that he’s going to prove too costly.
It’s remarkable to think that even City are walking away from players because of the price and they will need to be prepared to dig deep for Gibbs-White.
Romano is the man with his finger on the pulse across the football transfer industry and he believes that City are still extremely keen to land Forest star Gibbs-White this summer.
It’s believed that he remains on the shortlist and it will now be fascinating to find out what City are willing to pay for the talismanic Forest performer.
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With City pulling out of the race to sign Wirtz, it goes without saying that City are keen on an attacker and do have some money to spend considering they entered that race in the first place.
As a result, Forest must do to City what so many other clubs have done to Forest in the past and place a premium bounty on the head of Gibbs-White.
City’s interest in Gibbs-White offers similarities to the time they signed Jack Grealish and they paid £100 million for his services.
Grealish was no more important to Aston Villa as Gibbs-White is to Forest and if Pep Guardiola wants the Reds’ star, City must be taken to the cleaners when it comes to the transfer fee.