{"id":634556,"date":"2024-01-26T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=634556"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:26:18","slug":"morgan-gibbs-white-newcastle-united-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/26\/morgan-gibbs-white-newcastle-united-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scouted Extensively\u2019: Newcastle United Linked with Nottingham Forest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have set their sights on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/31\/gary-neville-manchester-united-nottingham-forest\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White if the sale of Miguel Almiron goes through, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeEdwardsTele\/status\/1749499269977977179\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Edwards<\/a> of the Telegraph. Al Shabab of the Saudi Pro League recently registered a concrete interest in Almiron after Newcastle United&#8217;s chief executive, Darren Earles, suggested that the club are looking to sell players to comply with the Premier League\u2019s Profit and Sustainability Rules.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Newcastle United Pushing for \u2018Hugely Impressive\u2019 Gibbs-White from Nottingham Forest<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>Football Fans are Being Lied To<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Football Fans Are Being Lied To\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hEQkQsNQGzo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Deal Unlikely in January<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Edwards has revealed that if <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/22\/newcastle-united-kieran-trippier-bayern-munich-links\/\" target=\"_self\">Newcastle United<\/a> receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeEdwardsTele\/status\/1749513327158452546\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reasonable fee for Almiron<\/a>, then Gibbs-White will be pursued up until the end of the January transfer window. The English attacking midfielder has been \u201cscouted extensively\u201d by Newcastle\u2019s recruitment team for months. However, there is an acknowledgement that Nottingham Forest would be reluctant to let Gibbs-White move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/25\/emmanuel-dennis-nottingham-forest-watford-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Very Talented\u2019 Premier League Striker To Leave Nottingham Forest And Rejoin Former Club On Loan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeEdwardsTele\/status\/1748319663270822041\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amadou Onana<\/a> has also been discussed as a potential transfer target for Newcastle, per Edwards. Everton are also set to dismiss any approach for the Belgian midfielder, with outgoings from Newcastle looking more likely.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Gibbs-White\u2019s Situation at Forest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gibbs-White is currently out with an abdominal injury, which he picked up in training before Nottingham Forest\u2019s FA Cup Third Round replay away at Blackpool. However, the former Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder has been a revelation since joining the Tricky Trees last summer, scoring seven and registering 11 assists, helping the East Midlands club narrowly avoid the drop in the 2022\/23 Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/22\/nottingham-forest-gustavo-scarpa\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest Set to Lose \u2018Brazilian Beckham<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>Given that they were recently charged with breaching the Premier League&#8217;s Profitability and Sustainability Rules, Forest&#8217;s sporting director, Ross Wilson, will be keen to keep Gibbs-White at the club given the potential for a points deduction later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>The player&#8217;s contract expires on June 30, 2027, so if the club are to consider any bids, then it will have to be north of the \u00a335 million fee they paid for the 23-year-old midfielder in August 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have set their sights on Nottingham Forest midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White if the sale of Miguel Almiron goes through, according to Luke Edwards of the Telegraph. Al Shabab of the Saudi Pro League recently registered a concrete interest in Almiron after Newcastle United&#8217;s chief executive, Darren Earles, suggested that the club are looking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5032,"featured_media":633430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[3,1267,4475,7188],"tags":[9707],"class_list":["post-634556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-newcastle-united","category-nottingham-forest","category-rumours","tag-newcastle-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634556","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\/5032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}