England international Elliot Anderson will become one of the most expensive football players ever after Manchester City reached a deal to sign the midfielder from Nottingham Forest for a reported fee of 116 million pounds ($155 million).
Anderson's move will be completed in the coming weeks after he has finished playing at the World Cup, City and Forest said in separate statements released on Thursday.
City said Anderson underwent his medical examination in Kansas City and "we look forward to welcoming him to Manchester in due course."
The fee would be a club record for City – eclipsing the 100 million pounds paid for winger Jack Grealish in 2021 – and among the biggest ever in the Premier League, alongside those of Alexander Isak (125 million pounds) and Florian Wirtz (up to 116 million pounds) to Liverpool last year and Moises Caicedo (115 million pounds) to Chelsea in 2023.
The world-record fee remains the 222 million euros ($262 million) that Paris Saint-Germain paid Barcelona for Brazil star Neymar in August 2017.
