The Daily Mail now claim United have joined a number of Premier League rivals in monitoring Gibbs-White, though it is immediately added that the club do not want to breach a newly introduced pay scale. Headline summer arrivals Bryan Mbeumo, Matheus Cunha and Benjamin Sesko all penned contracts with salaries in the range of £150,000 a week and Gibbs-White would be expected to sign to similar terms if he wanted to make the move.
Gibbs-White enjoyed a stellar 2024-25 season as Forest qualified for the Europa League under former manager Nuno Espirito Santo, scoring seven goals and supplying eight assists in 34 Premier League appearances. His numbers are decent for the current campaign, striking six times in England's top flight, while he recently scored his first European goals of the season in the impressive victory at Fenerbahce last week.
Fernandes, meanwhile, is in danger of recording his lowest goal haul in a season for United. The Portugal international needs four more to draw level with the ten he scored in all competitions back in 2021-22, when United started the season with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as manager and ended it with Ralf Rangnick in charge.