Forest reject £45m Elanga bid with Newcastle ready to walk away

Nottingham Timberland have scorned a bid from Premier League contenders Newcastle Joined for winger Anthony Elanga, according to records.
Timberland signed Elanga for around £12million in July 2023 after he struggled for advantages at Manchester Joined.
He has because computed himself as one of the Premier League’s most perilous wingers under Nuno Espirito Santo, scoring 6 objectives and also offering 11 aids in 38 optimal-escape appearances last period.
Elanga racked up one of the finest objectives of 2024/25 against his former club, lugging the sphere from inside his extremely own half before ending up low past Andre Onana.
After netting the lone honest of the gallery, the 23-year-don said his verdict to disown Joined for Timberland was unanimously around “dabbling and also honing”.
He in a similar means said in December that he was satisfied with his verdict to disown Worn Trafford.
“I channelled out the right verdict, 100%,” Elanga told The Sports.
“I have not actually chatted around this, but at the time at Joined, I was disturbingly young and also I was coming right into a team that was handling.
“Of training course, there was the suspected that ‘I am dabbling for Manchester Joined’. However I in a similar means never ever before really thumbed as though I was perfecting. I was dabbling for the sake of dabbling when I did administer consumption the obscure privilege off the bench.
“Anticipated to Timberland was so considerable for me, because immediately I was routinely dabbling 90 minutes, while having the privilege to enrich.
“Once I dabbled, I really thumbed like I possessed honest; like I was dabbling and also perfecting in the process. That was the biggest readjust for me.
“I really feel as though I understand the league inside-out now, because I have possessed the opportunity to learn.
“I have no remorses, because I am reaping dabbling fabulous football with this team. We are in a actually nice discontinuity at the minute.”
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Elanga’s practicalities for Timberland can now gain him a glide to a Champions League club, with Newcastle disturbingly keen on signing him.
Eddie Howe’s side have channelled out a right-sided forward their optimal priority in the summertime send window and also have submitted an police provision for the Sweden international.
According to The Sports‘s David Ornstein, the bid — worth around £45million — was lodged on Tuesday morning.
Timberland scorned the provision freely and also ‘without a counter’, with The Sports adding that they have ‘no motive’ of advertising and also advertising Elanga.
Newcastle have to now discern whether to antiphon with an perfected provision or walk away.
Head mentoring Howe is in a similar means mulling over polymorphous other wingers, forcing Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo and also West Pork’s Mohammed Kudus, whose moniker has been ‘floated’ at St James’ Park.
Newcastle’s attention in Elanga is long-standing. The record adds that last summertime the Geordies were willing to provision £30m up front, Miguel Almiron, and also two further £5m mediations.
A separate record from Sky Sports cases Timberland emblematic Elanga at £60m but have ‘no readiness to sell’.