West Ham are reportedly willing to sell Michail Antonio this summer and Championship Nottingham Forest should attempt to hi-jack Premier League interest.
Nottingham Forest mean business this summer.
After 20 years out of the Premier League, the former European Cup winners appear to be going all out for promotion. Ambitious owner Evangelos Marinakis appears to be following Wolves’ example by paying big for exciting Iberian talent with Joao Carvalho joining from Benfica for a club record £13 million.
Diogo Goncalves has arrived too from the Estadio da Luz. And Forest can sign him permanently should he impress for £18 million, the Nottingham Post add. So with money being thrown around at the City Ground, what are the chances of Forest making a move to re-sign Michail Antonio this summer?
According to TEAMtalk, West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini is willing to cash in on the 28-year-old amid interest from Wolves and Newcastle United. And if Nottingham Forest have the funds to compete for the £70,000-a-week winger, they should have no second thoughts about entering the race.
Antonio might have spent just one season at the City Ground in 2014/15 but he owes his current top flight status to Forest.
The former non-league winger came on leaps and bounds, scoring a career best 15 goals to earn the club’s Player of the Season award – and a £7 million move to West Ham.
It would not be easy trying to sell a move to the Championship to a player with Premier League offers. But there appears to be an exciting project taking shape at Nottingham Forest and, who knows, that could tempt Antonio back.
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