{"id":614999,"date":"2022-07-18T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614999"},"modified":"2022-07-18T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:13:21","slug":"nottingham-forest-lewis-obrien-harry-toffolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/18\/nottingham-forest-lewis-obrien-harry-toffolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest Agree Fees for Huddersfield Town Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/05\/bayern-munich-defender-nottingham-forest\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> are continuing their summer spending spree with the additions of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/15\/jack-rudoni-huddersfield-town-afc-wimbledon\/\" target=\"_self\">Huddersfield Town<\/a> duo Lewis O&#8217;Brien and Harry Toffolo, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPercyTelegraph\/status\/1548733723612532741\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Percy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Percy reports that the fee for both players is around \u00a310 million before add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>Forest have been busy in the market already following their promotion to the Premier League, and the addition of two players who they beat in last season&#8217;s Championship play-off final further strengthens their side.<\/p>\n<h2>Nottingham Forest Agree Deal for Lewis O&#8217;Brien and Harry Toffolo<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nffc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#nffc<\/a> have today agreed a double deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/htafc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#htafc<\/a> to sign midfielder Lewis O\u2019Brien and left-back Harry Toffolo. Fee for both players around the \u00a310m mark before add-ons etc. O\u2019Brien and Toffolo due for medicals on Monday<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Percy (@JPercyTelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPercyTelegraph\/status\/1548733723612532741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Summer Spending<\/h3>\n<p>Forest have already been splashing the cash this summer as they aim to build a side capable of staying in the Premier Leauge.<\/p>\n<p>This is their first campaign in the top flight since they finished bottom in 1998\/99. With so much time spent outside the division, they will want to make sure this stay lasts for longer than one season.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Cooper&#8217;s side have already spent big on striker <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/03\/31\/union-berlin-forward-taiwo-awoniyi-newcastle-west-ham\/\" target=\"_self\">Taiwo Awoniyi<\/a> from Union Berlin and right-back Neco Williams from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/01\/liverpool-forward-mohamed-salah-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> &#8211; both coming in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/nottingham-forest\/transfers\/verein\/703\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">around \u00a318 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, they have added defenders Moussa Niakhate and Giulian Biancone from Mainz and Troyes respectively, both for around \u00a39 million.<\/p>\n<p>The loan signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/17\/lisandro-martinez-joins-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> goalkeeper Dean Henderson was also a big statement of intent with the England international already having plenty of Premier League experience.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForestWatch_\/status\/1548737937520693248<\/p>\n<h3>Two New Boys &#8211; Plus Another?<\/h3>\n<p>Percy&#8217;s report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/07\/17\/nottingham-forest-agree-fees-sign-huddersfield-town-pair\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a> website states that both players will have their medicals at Forest on Monday (July 18).<\/p>\n<p>The pair were standout performers as Huddersfield defied the odds to reach the Championship play-off final last year, having defeated another underdog, Luton Town, in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien came through the academy at Huddersfield and has made over 100 appearances since 2018, while Toffolo is a graduate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/17\/doncaster-rovers-josh-martin-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Norwich City<\/a> academy but found most of his success during a two-year spell with Lincoln City in League One.<\/p>\n<p>Percy adds that Forest are targeting a move for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/25\/barcelona-president-suggests-adama-traore-will-return-to-wolverhampton-wanderers\/\" target=\"_self\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White.<\/p>\n<p>The England U21 international impressed last season on loan at Sheffield United and is the subject of interest from many teams in the Premier League, including Everton.<\/p>\n<p>Any move is likely to cost around \u00a325 million and the talented youngster also has an offer of a new contract at Wolves to consider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest are continuing their summer spending spree with the additions of Huddersfield Town duo Lewis O&#8217;Brien and Harry Toffolo, reports John Percy. Percy reports that the fee for both players is around \u00a310 million before add-ons. Forest have been busy in the market already following their promotion to the Premier League, and the addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":615000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,1266,4475,3,7188],"tags":[4676,9322,9323,7479],"class_list":["post-614999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-huddersfield-town","category-nottingham-forest","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-harry-toffolo","tag-huddersfield-town-transfers","tag-lewis-obrien","tag-nottingham-forest-transfers"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}