Elliot Anderson completes £116m Manchester City switch as deal confirmed
Manchester City have confirmed a deal for Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest for a club-record fee of £116million.
Manchester City have confirmed a transfer agreement for Elliot Anderson(Image: Chris Brunskill/Fantasista, Getty Images)
Manchester City have confirmed the £116million capture of Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest. The deal sets a new record fee for Man City, eclipsing the £100million they splashed out to Aston Villa for Jack Grealish.
It also marks the largest sum Forest have ever banked for a player, more than doubling their previous benchmark of £55million that Anderson’s boyhood club, Newcastle United, agreed to fork out for Anthony Elanga last summer. The transfer ranks as the fourth most costly in football history, surpassing what Atletico Madrid shelled out for Joao Felix in 2016, though it trails Liverpool’s £125million acquisition of Alexander Isak, which still stands as the British record, alongside Paris Saint-Germain’s captures of Kylian Mbappe (£166million) and Neymar (£200million) in 2017.
In a statement published on their website, City confirmed: “Manchester City and Nottingham Forest have reached an agreement for the transfer of Elliot Anderson.
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“Anderson, is currently competing at the FIFA World Cup with England and has completed a medical in Kansas. The formalities of the move will be finalised upon his return to England.
“In the meantime, everyone at Manchester City wishes Elliot and the England squad the very best of luck in their World Cup campaign and we look forward to welcoming him to Manchester in due course.”
Anderson, 23, cost Forest just a third of the price they are banking from his departure this summer when they brought the midfielder in from Newcastle two years ago. He has turned out 92 times across all competitions during his two campaigns at the City Ground, nearly double the number of appearances he racked up after coming through at the Magpies.
Forest secured seventh place during Anderson’s maiden season, earning qualification for the league phase of the Europa League and reaching the FA Cup semi-finals before falling to Man City. The Reds also progressed to the same stage of UEFA’s second-tier competition last term, going down to eventual champions Villa across two legs.
Anderson earned England under-21 recognition shortly after his arrival in the East Midlands, having previously been capped once at that level by Scotland, the nation of his paternal grandmother. The midfielder proved crucial to Lee Carsley’s European Under-21 Championship-winning side last summer and earned selection in the tournament team.
He subsequently earned his maiden senior cap months later during World Cup qualifying and has swiftly established himself as a regular starter under Thomas Tuchel.
Anderson has sat out just one fixture, the 1-1 friendly stalemate with Uruguay, since making his bow, starting every one of England’s matches in North America this summer.
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