{"id":608323,"date":"2026-08-29T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608323\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:02:12","slug":"harrison-armstrong-nottingham-forest-bid-40m-for-everton-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608323\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Armstrong: Nottingham Forest bid \u00a340m for Everton teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Friedkin Group, Everton<\/a>‘s American owners, will be risking the fury of their own fanbase should they agree to the sale of Harrison Armstrong to Nottingham Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The notion that Everton<\/a> could even consider parting with Armstrong sparked an instant reaction of disbelief and anger among supporters, with the teenager regarded as their brightest home-grown prospect for years and a big hope for the future.<\/p>\n

As yet, there are no indications that Everton<\/a> will accept an offer, but Forest’s interest is real, although it would be a real coup should they pull it off.<\/p>\n

It would also send out worrying signals about the scale of TFG’s ambitions.<\/p>\n

Manager David Moyes has been frustrated by the club’s lack of incoming transfer activity this summer.<\/p>\n

Moyes made it abundantly clear after Wednesday’s 4-0 Carabao Cup second-round win at Championship side Preston that he wanted reinforcements.<\/p>\n

His hope was that TFG would provide backing for further arrivals.<\/p>\n

Since then, however, Everton<\/a>‘s main creator Iliman Ndiaye has been heavily linked with Manchester City<\/a>, and now Forest are ready to test their resolve over Armstrong.<\/p>\n

How Moyes would view, or indeed explain, such a sale, would be intriguing. It would appear totally at odds with his stated intention of building a better squad.<\/p>\n

And while Everton<\/a> and their support may have to accept their prize assets being spirited away by clubs such as Manchester City<\/a>, the idea that their most promising young player could be taken away by Nottingham Forest<\/a> \u2013 a club they would be expecting to challenge or even surpass \u2013 may be harder to stomach.<\/p>\n

That is why the manner in which Everton<\/a> handle Forest’s approach for Armstrong, who has already excelled this season, may be a defining moment for TFG and Moyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Friedkin Group, Everton‘s American owners, will be risking the fury of their own fanbase should they agree…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-608323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}