Nottingham Forest star Morgan Gibbs-White has committed his future to the football club, despite the best efforts of Tottenham Hotspur.
Evangelos Marinakis was fuming with Daniel Levy for trying to get around a £60 million release clause, with the Forest owner threatening legal action.
Marinakis hailed Gibbs-White after he agreed to extend his current deal by a year and help the Reds maintain his valuation and, crucially, remove any release clause.
Forest fans are naturally ecstatic about the new deal for Gibbs-White, and with Anthony Elanga being sold to Newcastle, this does lift the mood around the City Ground among the fans this summer.
Gabby Agbonlahor stunned by Morgan Gibbs-White decision
It would appear that not everybody is impressed with Gibbs-White’s commitment to the Forest cause.
Agbonlahor has expressed his bemusement at the decision made by the Forest number 10 and has suggested that he wanted to join Tottenham.
Clearly, Agbonlahor hasn’t kept up to date with the journalistic claims made in the aftermath of his new deal, with something not adding up for the former Aston Villa man.
He told TalkSPORT: “It was bizarre. I think it just seems a bit, the reason behind it, the release clause was leaked. I don’t understand it. If there is a release clause in a contract and then the player wants to go, I’m just baffled by it. I’m not being funny, but if you want to stay at a football club, you don’t sign a three-year contract, do you? You sign a five-year contract, don’t you? More. So that says to me that this time next year, he will probably be gone. I don’t see him there for the long term.
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“I think fans will be happy he’s staying because he’s one of their best players, but if I’m a Forest fan, I think it would leave a bad taste in my mouth. He doesn’t love Nottingham Forest, the medical was booked, which says to me that he did want to go.”
Gibbs-White is superb news for Forest fans
Agbonlahor is a little bit out of the loop here when it comes to the Gibbs-White stuff.
Forest star Gibbs-White would have joined Manchester City and although he’d have been willing to go to Tottenham, it was a club that he was never going to push to join.
It merely highlights how much respect Gibbs-White has for Forest and it’s superb news that he’s going to remain at the club for another season.
Agbonlahor says that Gibbs-White will only stay for another season as though that’s going to be news for the club’s supporters.