Nottingham Forest have officially completed the signing of Swedish forward Anthony Elanga from Manchester United. Forest have paid the Red Devils a fee of £15m for the 21-year-old, who has put pen to paper a five-year-deal at the City Ground.
Elanga becomes Forest’s second signing of the summer transfer window after Ola Aina. The club also made Chris Wood’s loan switch permanent a few weeks ago. Elanga joined Manchester United as a teenager back in 2014 and made a total of 55 senior appearances during his time at Old Trafford. He however didn’t score a single goal last campaign He has also been capped twelve times by Sweden at senior level.
Forest are playing their second successive Premier League season, having just about survived the drop in the just-concluded 22/23 campaign. They picked up 38 points from 38 games last season, with nine wins, eleven draws and eighteen defeats.
Steve Cooper’s men have played three pre-season friendlies so far, beating Notts County and Levante and losing 1-0 to Valencia. They have four other upcoming friendlies, with Leeds, PSV, Rennes and Eintracht Frankfurt as their opponents before they start the new 23/24 league campaign away at Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal.
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