Journalist Ben Jacobs has said that there is one thing Tottenham Hotspur can do to get Nottingham Forest to drop their legal challenge and allow Morgan Gibbs-White to complete a move to North London.
As Spurs fans are well aware by now, Nottingham Forest have officially filed a legal complaint against Tottenham after the North London club activated Gibbs-White’s £60m release clause last week.
According to reports, Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, is furious that Gibbs-White’s release clause was leaked, and the Midlands club are questioning how Spurs knew of the clause when they had not given the Lilywhites permission to speak to the attacking midfielder.
It has been suggested by many sources that while Marinakis may not be able to stop the 25-year-old from moving to N17, the Forest owner will not make it easy for Tottenham to get the deal over the line.
Tottenham could submit an improved offer for Morgan Gibbs-White
A couple of days ago, a super-agent claimed that Spurs may have to pay more than £60m to land Gibbs-White, and now Ben Jacobs has echoed a similar sentiment.
He suggested that if Daniel Levy and co do not want this case to drag out, they could simply return with an improved offer for the England international.
Jacobs said on talkSPORT: “Tottenham Hotspur deny any wrongdoing, I still feel this deal can be done and will be done, but it’s on Forest now.
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“Tottenham do not have permission to even engage with the player right now to attempt to formalise this, so the two clubs are either going to have to agree on something and maybe it’s a case of something around the release clause.
“If Tottenham want this to all go away, they can, instead of waiting for Forest to either drop it or resolve it, just actually make another offer and see whether that’s good enough.
“But they would need to go higher than the release clause, or they can see if Forest actually understands that Gibbs-White wants the move, he wants to play for Thomas Frank, he wants Champions League football.”
Why Spurs are unlikely to pay more than Gibbs-White’s release clause
According to various reports, Tottenham remain confident the Morgan Gibbs-White deal will go through.
The North Londoners thus do not have a reason to return with a second offer if they feel that this is going to end in their favour.
However, should this mess drag on for another couple of weeks, and thus have an adverse impact on Thomas Frank’s pre-season plans, in that case, perhaps they might consider dropping another million or two on Gibbs-White.