Tottenham want to proceed with their move for Morgan Gibbs-White despite it currently sitting in limbo as Nottingham Forest consider legal action over what they perceive to be an illegal approach.
Spurs were set to trigger a £60million release clause for the 25-year-old England international with a medical to be held on Friday. However, the transfer has now hit a road block as Forest have reportedly cut off communications with Tottenham at this time as they believe they did not give permission for the north London club to approach Gibbs-White despite the release clause aspect.
Forest are also said to believe the confidentiality of the release clause has been breached as Spurs' approach for Gibbs-White was exactly what was required.
football.london understands that Tottenham still want to proceed with the deal but Forest are believed to be preparing a complaint to the Premier League which could at the least delay any move from going through. It is unclear at this time whether Forest could block the transfer completely.
New Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank decided while at Brentford that Gibbs-White could be the perfect number 10 within his system, while also able to play in a deeper central midfield role as well as on the wing if required. Frank's assistant Justin Cochrane has worked with Gibbs-White within the England set-up and now the duo will work with him at Spurs.
If they can still push through with the deal for the midfielder it will complete a £120million transfer hat-trick at the club with Spurs having sealed a £55million move for West Ham attacker Mohammed Kudus after completing a £5million transfer earlier this week for Japan international centre-back Kota Takai from Kawasaki Frontale.