September 21, 2024
Spurs are rumoured to be interested in one of Nottingham Forest’s best players – but could they send someone the other way?

It’s been a week or since the Guardian first reported that Tottenham Hotspur were interested in signing Callum Hudson-Odoi from Nottingham Forest following his sparkling form at the end of the season, and there has been precious little movement in the meantime. That isn’t especially surprising, given how early it is in the window, but it would also be no shock if negotiations were relatively challenging.

Partly, that’s because although Forest are in a tricky financial position thanks to the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules – breaches of which saw them docked points this year – they are also loathe to lose the high-class players whose goals helped to keep them up. If they lose players like Hudson-Odoi and Morgan Gibbs-White, they will need to find replacements, and that takes time.

The good news for Forest is they would net a healthy profit on any sale – Hudson-Odoi cost just £3m when he arrived last summer – but that doesn’t negate the need to replace him on a similarly tight budget. They struck gold once, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily easy to do it again.

But one possible answer lies in the very negotiations with Spurs they probably dread. Because as the north London side look to bolster their attacking line ahead of a fresh charge at the Champions League placings, they also have some dead weight to get rid of – and there are two players who could easily be used as makeweights in a deal for Hudson-Odoi.

Bryan Gil, as it stands, is all unfulfilled promise and few hard results. He arrived from Spain with a fair amount of fanfare but has yet to live up to his billing and is now some way down the Spurs pecking order. But he remains a tricky, pacey winger who can offer a similar sort of direct threat to Hudson-Odoi and can match him for dribbling and technique, if not yet for goals and end product.

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