Manchester City have confirmed an agreement to sign Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson in a transfer that establishes a new British record.<\/p>\n
City said: \u201cThe formalities of the move will be finalized upon his return to England,\u201d City confirmed in a statement. \u201cIn 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.\u202f\u201c<\/p>\n
City are understood to have agreed to pay Forest a fee of $153.9 million (\u00a3116 million). The club negotiated the transfer to include no add-ons, a structure that places the deal above Florian Wirtz\u2019s switch to Liverpool, which required bonuses to reach the \u00a3116 million valuation.<\/p>\n
Although the fee falls short of the Premier League transfer record of \u00a3125 million set by Alexander Isak\u2019s move to Liverpool, the structure of Anderson\u2019s transfer makes him the most expensive British player on record. The sum is also \u00a31 million higher than Real Madrid\u2019s acquisition of Jude Bellingham, whose initial fee was \u00a388.5 million with add-ons that could take the total to \u00a3115 million.<\/p>\n
Previous benchmarks for British transfers have been debated. Arsenal paid a total of \u00a3105 million for Declan Rice, structured as \u00a3100 million plus \u00a35 million in bonuses. Harry Kane\u2019s move to Bayern Munich in 2023 was reported as an initial \u00a382 million with a total package thought to be worth as much as \u00a3104 million, which placed him ahead of Jack Grealish\u2019s \u00a3100 million transfer to City in 2021. Grealish and Anderson would be teammates at Manchester City next season unless Grealish leaves during the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n
The new British record ends an eight-year run since Gareth Bale\u2019s \u00a385.3 million transfer to Real Madrid in 2013 and represents another significant chapter in recent high-value moves within the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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