{"id":17576,"date":"2025-07-27T01:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nottingham-forest-morgan-gibbs-white-signs-new-three-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:42:48","slug":"nottingham-forest-morgan-gibbs-white-signs-new-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nottingham-forest-morgan-gibbs-white-signs-new-three-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest: Morgan Gibbs-White signs new three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibbs-White had two years left on his previous deal after joining Forest from Wolves in a move worth up to \u00a342.5m in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 18 goals and provided 28 assists in 118 games for the Reds, helping the club finish seventh last season and qualify for Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve felt at home at Forest from the moment I arrived,&#8221; said Gibbs-White. &#8220;The support from the fans, my team-mates, and everyone around the club has been unbelievable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I believe in what we&#8217;re building here \u2013 and with the backing of [owner] Mr Marinakis and the enormous ambition he has, I want to be part of making something special. I&#8217;m excited for what&#8217;s to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis said: &#8220;There was significant interest from various clubs, but we were determined to build our future with Morgan at the heart of it.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I promised our fans we would not only compete, but grow stronger and stronger every season. Today is another big step in that journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, sources told BBC Sport that Forest were furious at Tottenham&#8217;s conduct in their pursuit of the England international, and insisted the threat to take legal action was genuine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest are understood to have insisted they had not given Spurs permission to speak to Gibbs-White, and were willing to go to any necessary lengths to prevent the transfer taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Premier League rules, clubs are not allowed to talk to players under contract with another team unless they have permission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gibbs-White returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9w1ez2nw82o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">pre-season training as normal<\/a> despite the speculation and has played in friendly matches against Monaco and Fulham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqxgjq3xy89o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibbs-White had two years left on his previous deal after joining Forest from Wolves in a move worth up to \u00a342.5m in August 2022. He has scored 18 goals and provided 28 assists in 118 games for the Reds, helping the club finish seventh last season and qualify for Europe. &#8220;I&#8217;ve felt at home at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17578,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576\/revisions\/17578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}