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Morgan Gibbs-White: Nottingham Forest agree £25m deal plus add-ons for Wolves midfielder

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Morgan Gibbs-White is tackled by Pascal Struijk during Wolves' Premier League match against Leeds
Morgan Gibbs-White is set to become Nottingham Forest's 16th signing of the summer

Nottingham Forest have agreed a £25m deal plus add-ons for Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White.

The 22-year-old would become Forest's 16th signing of a busy summer at the City Ground.

Forest have spent most of the summer trying to sign Gibbs-White, who came through Wolves' academy.

The Stafford-born player has started both Premier League games for Bruno Lage's side this season.

However, Wolves are still trying to reshape Lage's squad and it was likely Forest would make another push to sign him.

Forest will pay an initial fee of £25m, plus up to £17m in potential add-ons.

Gibbs-White, who has 10 England Under-21s caps, impressed in the Championship last season on loan at Sheffield United.

He is due to have his medical later on Thursday.

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  • Comment posted by sickbeggar, at 15:09 18 Aug 2022

    Wolves have been very clever with the add-ons apparently

    5m if they stay up
    2m if he plays for England
    10m if they finish above ManU

    • Reply posted by Esperanza, at 15:18 18 Aug 2022

      Esperanza replied:
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • Comment posted by Boycie55, at 15:18 18 Aug 2022

    With the size of the Forest squad, he has been allocated shirt number 137.

    • Reply posted by King Frat, at 15:30 18 Aug 2022

      King Frat replied:
      Forest had a lot of loanees last season who went back to their clubs.

  • Comment posted by Mike, at 15:04 18 Aug 2022

    Swansea fan, we had him for half a season a few years back and I don't see any issue with this fee in comparison to some of the junk that gets bought/sold these days. Absolute quality, consistent, and guaranteed to go for a decent sum even if Forest go down, so net spend isn't as bad as it first looks.

    • Reply posted by Yorkshire Geordies, at 15:06 18 Aug 2022

      Yorkshire Geordies replied:
      Only decent comment I've seen on here

  • Comment posted by AlfieMoon, at 15:23 18 Aug 2022

    Chelsea and City have spend hundreds of millions to win the Premier League, but Forest are spending to strength a squad (which they need to replace from loans etc) to stay up, and they get slated for it.
    Let’s see what happens at the end of the season eh?

    • Reply posted by JuliusCaesarWasASocialist, at 15:51 18 Aug 2022

      JuliusCaesarWasASocialist replied:
      What you on about?? Chelsea and City get monumentally slated for their spending

  • Comment posted by Weybournewanderer, at 15:22 18 Aug 2022

    Local media in Wolverhampton are reporting the fee as £35 million initially plus £9 million in add-ons. It will be interesting to see which figure is correct. As someone who came up through the Wolves youth system, I would have liked to see Gibbs-White succeed with us. Sadly it wasn't to be, but I wish him and Forest all the best.

    • Reply posted by liverpool supporter right here, at 15:34 18 Aug 2022

      liverpool supporter right here replied:
      Good bit of business by Wolves using the money from the sale of Gibbs White by signing Nunes who is a way better player

  • Comment posted by Autumn, at 15:40 18 Aug 2022

    I can only put all the shade being cast on Forest down to jealousy - we’ve taken 23 years to get back up to the top of the game and guess what we want to stay there. Ultimately all we are doing is investing the estimated £180 million that we got from winning the playoffs instead of a greedy owner pocketing half for themselves. I’m looking forward to the ride in Coops we trust!

    • Reply posted by gary, at 16:08 18 Aug 2022

      gary replied:
      Amen to that Autumn.

  • Comment posted by Smells Like Fish Spirit, at 15:42 18 Aug 2022

    Cooper won the U17 World Cup with this lad in the thick of it.
    He'll slot straight in at Forest.
    Good luck MGW!

    • Reply posted by King Frat, at 16:12 18 Aug 2022

      King Frat replied:
      Good point.

  • Comment posted by Utcheterwolf, at 15:05 18 Aug 2022

    I have watched Gibbs White at Wolves for years hoping each year this would be his season. I hate to say it but it just hasn’t happened for him. He has been given every opportunity at Wolves but he just isn’t good enough for a top ten premier league team.. gutted in that most Wolves fans wanted it to click for him but lack of consistency in a Wolves shirt means Wolves cash in.Good luck MGW

    • Reply posted by Your Comment is Woke, at 15:07 18 Aug 2022

      Your Comment is Woke replied:
      Must have missed WHEN he was given that opportunity, maybe i blinked. issue is he doesn't have a EU passport or Mendes as a agent.

  • Comment posted by OneTree2Stars, at 15:38 18 Aug 2022

    'I hope anybody's not stupid enough to write us off'

    • Reply posted by paulkerton, at 15:44 18 Aug 2022

      paulkerton replied:
      HMRC might be writing you off in a few years considering the spend this summer.

  • Comment posted by Forest, at 15:29 18 Aug 2022

    Forest had such a thin squad last season and about 5 loan players in their team, so it was inevitable on two fronts, one just for numbers and two to compete in the big league, that they would sign a lot of players this season

    • Reply posted by Winners And Sinners, at 18:03 18 Aug 2022

      Winners And Sinners replied:
      Just hope for their sake, Forest have better success from their many signings than Fulham did from theirs, a couple of seasons ago.

  • Comment posted by Allez Les Gars, at 14:57 18 Aug 2022

    A good player, however up to £42mil, really...!! Not sure Forest can see the wood for the trees :-)

    • Reply posted by JuliusCaesarWasASocialist, at 15:53 18 Aug 2022

      JuliusCaesarWasASocialist replied:
      Well I can tell you one thing they can not only see, but are staring at right in the face:

      RELEGATION

      👍👍

  • Comment posted by dav3yb0y, at 15:18 18 Aug 2022

    Great business by Wolves; buy one of Europes top talents for 42.2M and sell Gibbs-White for 25M (+17M in addons potentially). Still leaves some cash for a centre forward.

    • Reply posted by t d , at 15:29 18 Aug 2022

      t d replied:
      35 mil mate cash upfront ha ha ha

  • Comment posted by kmk, at 14:59 18 Aug 2022

    What a ridiculous price tag for someone who wasn't good enough for the Wolves first team last season.

    • Reply posted by Yorkshire Geordies, at 15:04 18 Aug 2022

      Yorkshire Geordies replied:
      Not good enough? They sent him on loan to get first team experience as they only ever gave him the odd start or 10mins off the bench and while on loan he showed exactly how good he is. It's more mental they are selling him instead of making him first team now because the kid has unbelievable talent and a brilliant attitude towards the game

  • Comment posted by Phoenix711, at 16:48 18 Aug 2022

    A lot of people complaining about FFP but do not understand it.

    Forest made ~£135m for getting promoted (TV + Prize money). If they stay up, they'll make another £130m.

    Forest wage bill was so low, the increase in wage bill will not be factored in to FFP this season.

    If they get relegated, they'll use parachute payments + sell assets.

    The only FFP risk is if they sell players at a huge loss.

    • Reply posted by D1701972191160, at 16:59 18 Aug 2022

      D1701972191160 replied:
      FFP...the rich teams get out of jail free card..

  • Comment posted by King Frat, at 15:21 18 Aug 2022

    Huge potential, I hope he achieves his self actualisation. Great player and product of the Wolves academy. It's almost as if we've been conditioned to think English players can't be any good. Top talent, Forest had to spend to compete I think they maybe OK now. This season will be a right tussle and some big name teams will go down. Brentford look good so it will be interesting.

    • Reply posted by Cheggers, at 19:30 18 Aug 2022

      Cheggers replied:
      I wonder how long it will be before the 25m is spent on a few more Portuguese players, just to balance out the squad a bit more.

  • Comment posted by Flippity Gibbert, at 16:42 18 Aug 2022

    I wish him and Forest all the best. He was immense for the Blades last year and has loads of potential. I’m glad he chose to go somewhere and play rather than warm the bench. The fee is what it is. If someone wants to pay it let them, that’s what they believe he is worth. Thanks for last year MGW good luck. UTB

  • Comment posted by Wilfred, at 20:59 18 Aug 2022

    In my 35 years of watching The Blades I can honestly say I have not seen a more skilful player.Morgan was outstanding for us,ran his socks off and played with a smile on his face.I have no doubt he'll gain a call up for England.I wish him all the best and thank him for his time at Bramall Lane.

    • Reply posted by Claxtons, at 21:20 18 Aug 2022

      Claxtons replied:
      And he almost single handedly beat us in the second leg of the play offs when he was outstanding

  • Comment posted by steff, at 15:03 18 Aug 2022

    Get ya comments in quick before the scousers turn up screaming about ffp.

    Initial 25m is not an outrageous amount. Hope it works out for both parties.

    • Reply posted by stevie, at 16:04 18 Aug 2022

      stevie replied:
      Don't fret, there is another Man U HYS keeping them entertained.

  • Comment posted by Theodore Roosevelt, at 15:10 18 Aug 2022

    Another example of the premiums clubs will pay for English players. Arsenal signed Odegaard last year for around £30 million who was the same age and plays a similar position but had been a starter and trophy winner with Sociedad. Dejan Kulusevski's loan to Spurs also came with a 35 million euro clause to buy, and he's a top player and actually slightly younger than Gibbs-White. This is mad.

    • Reply posted by D1713346643628, at 15:23 18 Aug 2022

      D1713346643628 replied:
      English tax I'm afraid, plus the home grown rule inflates the value of players who have trained in this country from a young age. Gibbs-White showed big signs of improvement on loan last season so I wouldn't write him off but it certainly is a large fee. One wonder how they plan to manage should they fail to survive this season.

  • Comment posted by aeronaut praetorian, at 17:51 18 Aug 2022

    A few months ago everyone please to have Forest back. “Good to see them in the PL again” ”Great to see them back”. Now we’ve arrived, can play and win, the resentment and wishes that we ‘stay in our lane’ and ‘will go back down’ abound. Just shows what is bad about the PL. The same clubs with the same fans with the same mentality that has them entitled to whine when they get challenged.

    • Reply posted by JDK, at 19:35 18 Aug 2022

      JDK replied:
      To be fair that's happened to Leeds, Sheffield United (who did get relegated in Season2) Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Watford (who did get relegated) and so on....

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