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Ben Palmer

Sat 9 August 2025 9:00, UK

Morgan Gibbs-White will have secured a tidy pay rise from his new deal at Nottingham Forest but it will also contain a release clause.

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That is according to football finance expert Dan Plumley, who told Football Insider exclusively that the exit clause will be a “fairly decent one”.

The midfielder’s seemingly simple move to North London to join Spurs quickly became one of the biggest debacles this summer.

Tottenham triggered Gibbs-White’s £60million release clause and had a medical planned for the very next day.

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But rather than accept the fact that their midfielder’s buy-out clause had been triggered and there was little that could be done, Forest went on the offensive.

The Tricky Trees claimed Tottenham had obtained knowledge of Gibbs-White’s exit clause illegally and the deal fell flat.

This article contains exclusive comment from Dan Plumley, a football finance expert and senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Gibbs-White then surprisingly renewed his contract with Nottingham Forest, foregoing a move to join the Europa League champions.

And Plumley told Football Insider exclusively that his new deal will contain an exit clause: “I’d be surprised if there’s not a release clause in there, and a fairly decent one.

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“I think there’s the other layer to that, that actually, the way this played out, it didn’t look great for Gibbs-White or his agent.

“We know how the Nottingham Forest owner [Evangelos Marinakis] deals with these kind of situations.

I think there’s there’s a lot of things wrapped up in there, but I certainly think there’ll be a decent release clause in his contract.”

This summer has proven that a release clause does not guarantee an exit, but the England midfielder will presumably be better equipped to find a way out of his club if he desires in the future.

Matt Le Tissier told Football Insider exclusively that Gibbs-White may reconsider his future at Nottingham Forest in January.

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