Last week Manchester City made an offer to buy Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest.
That offer was instantly knocked back.
Now on Wednesday (10 June 2026) Manchester City have went back in with a second offer.
This news coming via an exclusive from The Athletic.
They report that Manchester City have bid £106m plus potential future add-ons that could take the final amount to over £121m.
However, The Athletic say their information is that Nottingham Forest have once again turned down this second offer.
David Ornstein at The Athletic reporting that Nottingham Forest have made clear that before they will consider an offer for their star player, the guaranteed part of the transfer fee will have to exceed the amount that Liverpool paid Newcastle United for Alexander Isak! That amount Liverpool paid for Isak has been variously reported as either £125m or £130m.
Elliot Anderson was bought by Nottingham Forest for £35m from Newcastle United at the end of June 2024.
The Newcastle United owners allowing a situation to develop whereby it was suddenly revealed in mid-June 2024, that pure profit from player sales of more than £50m had to be made by the end of the financial year (30 June 2024) or else United would break the three-year PSR limits.
In the end Elliot Anderson sold for £35m because as a homegrown developed talent, all of that £35m could go into the 2023/24 accounts as instant pure profit. Whilst United’s Yankuba Minteh was sold for £33m, having been bought for only £7m (12 months earlier), his book value at the time meant that the vast majority of that £33m could also be banked as instant profit to go in the 2023/24 NUFC accounts.
Two years on and Minteh is one of Brighton’s best and most valuable players, whilst Anderson for sure is Forest’s most valuable and seemingly set to be the Premier League’s very most valuable.
It seems incredible that the Newcastle United owners and those running the club on a day to day basis, CEO Darren Eales, and Amanda Staveley who had a management contract to help run the club at the time, allowed such a nightmare scenario to develop AND then didn’t even ensure that a sell-on clause was included in the Elliot Anderson sale, nor you would imagine in Minteh’s sale either.
It looks a knocking bet now that Manchester City will buy Elliot Anderson and just a case of how much they will end up giving Nottingham Forest in terms of a huge profit made on the former Newcastle United midfielder.