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Nottingham Forest working on £40m deal for Harrison Armstrong

sportsAug 29, 20264361

Nottingham Forest are working on a deal to sign Harrison Armstrong from Everton, with talks centred on a package worth around £40 million plus a sell-on clause. The 19-year-old midfielder has made 22 first-team appearances for Everton and spent loan spells at Championship clubs Derby County and Preston North End before being integrated into David Moyes’s first-team squad earlier this year. Forest are seeking central-midfield reinforcements after England international Elliot Anderson moved to Manchester City for a fee of £116 million earlier in the window. Austria international Xaver Schlager, signed as a free agent from RB Leipzig, has featured in Forest’s opening two games, but manager Oliver Glasner’s side remain hopeful of adding another midfielder. Everton have also reshaped their midfield this summer, bringing in Hayden Hackney and Christian Norgaard and making Merlin Rohl’s move from Freiburg permanent. If completed, the Armstrong move would be a major young-player investment by Forest and would further alter both clubs’ midfield options for the season.

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