2<\/p>\n England international Anderson has always favoured a move to the Etihad StadiumCredit: Getty<\/p>\n A further bid is expected in the coming weeks, with the parties not too far apart in valuation.<\/p>\n Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is personally handling the negotiations and keeping other senior officials in the club in the dark, including manager Vitor Pereira.<\/p>\n Elliot Anderson to Man City update<\/p>\n Forest ideally want a British transfer record fee surpassing the \u00a3125m that saw Alexander Isak move from Newcastle to Liverpool<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen whether City go that high, but there is an expectation that the parties will come to an agreement after Anderson informed both City and Forest that he wants to join<\/a>.<\/p>\n read more football news<\/p>\n Although Thomas Tuchel is content for players to undergo medicals on international duty with England, talkSPORT understands Forest could delay formalisation on any deal until July, since it\u2019s more preferable for the club to declare such a sale on the next financial year.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Manchester United are currently focused on West Ham\u2019s Mateus Fernandes<\/a> despite viewing Anderson as a dream target. <\/p>\n United don\u2019t want to enter into a bidding war without player buy-in, and have instead made relegated Fernandes their top priority.<\/p>\n The Red Devils United are already\u00a0closing in on a deal to sign Atalanta’s Ederson<\/a>, with a \u00a338.8million move expected imminently.<\/p>\n As for Anderson<\/a>, he is set to start alongside Declan Rice in England’s World Cup opener against Croatia on June 17, live on talkSPORT.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n Tuchel has revealed he wouldn’t stand in the way of Anderson completing a medicalCredit: Getty<\/p>\n The 23-year-old’s future has been the main talking point of the summer window following a season in which he scored four goals and registered as many assists in 38 matches for Forest.<\/p>\n Anderson has enjoyed a meteoric rise<\/a> since arriving at the City Ground from Newcastle in the summer of 2024 for a fee of \u00a335m.<\/p>\n In fact, his arrival effectively went down as just \u00a315m on the balance sheet, with Odysseas Vlachodimos also moving in the opposite direction for \u00a320m so that Eddie Howe’s men could comply with PSR<\/a>.<\/p>\n Only 30 months before that, Anderson was sealing a loan move from his boyhood Magpies to Bristol Rovers<\/a>, who were 12th in League Two.<\/p>\n His expected triple-figure switch to the Etihad four years on is now thought to be linked to doubts over\u00a0Rodri’s future amid interest from Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Elliot](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/elliot-anderson-nottingham-forest-applauds-1083620723.jpg\")
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