{"id":15704,"date":"2025-07-11T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=615319"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:37:20","slug":"nottingham-forest-threaten-legal-action-against-spurs-over-gibbs-white-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/nottingham-forest-threaten-legal-action-against-spurs-over-gibbs-white-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest threaten legal action against Spurs over Gibbs-White approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest have officially reported Tottenham Hotspur to the Premier League for allegedly making an \u201cillegal approach\u201d for star midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White, as per a report by Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<p>Forest filed the complaint on Thursday afternoon, accusing Spurs of contacting the player without permission and demanding that all communication with Gibbs-White be stopped immediately. The Midlands club is also considering legal action, claiming Tottenham may have gained knowledge of the player\u2019s \u00a360 million release clause in an improper manner.<\/p>\n<p>While Tottenham are confident they\u2019ve acted within the rules and remain keen to push ahead with the deal, the Premier League\u2019s investigation could lead to a significant delay and possibly jeopardize the transfer altogether.<\/p>\n<p>While Tottenham are confident they\u2019ve acted within the rules and remain keen to push ahead with the deal, the Premier League\u2019s investigation could lead to a significant delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham Forest have officially reported Tottenham Hotspur to the Premier League for allegedly making an \u201cillegal approach\u201d for star midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4020,3686,3918,1823,3796,674,3998,2464,1162],"class_list":["post-15704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-christian-falk","tag-david-ornstein","tag-english-premier-league","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-legal-action","tag-morgan-gibbs-white","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}