'Forest have always improved on the players they have lost'

Anthony Elanga and Morgan Gibbs-WhiteImage source, Getty Images
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BBC Sport football news reporter Nick Mashiter has been answering your questions.

Andrew asked: Why are Nottingham Forest offloading their best players? They don't need the money, they have European football. It doesn't make any sense.

Nick answered: With Forest and Anthony Elanga and Morgan Gibbs-White - to a certain extent - every player has got a price.

With Elanga, they didn't want to sell, he didn't push for a move and he was obviously key to what Forest did last season and would have been going forward, but £55m - close to £60m with add-ons - is too good to turn down.

Effectively, this is a player that they signed for £13.5m from Manchester United two seasons ago so it represents a huge profit.

And with Gibbs-White, obviously there is a release clause there so the club are relatively powerless to stop that going through.

We are seeing Forest unhappy with how things have gone with Tottenham and they have been considering their legal options. But, if there is a release clause there, it is going to be very difficult to keep him unless the player says he does not want to go.

It sounds very very boring, but Forest know exactly what they are doing.

It sounds strange when you are selling two of your best players, but they have targets - long-term targets in the likes of PSV Eindhoven's Johan Bakayoko, James McAtee of Manchester City and Liverpool's Harvey Elliott.

Bakayoko was on the list when they signed Elanga initially. So, I think it is a case of 'trust the process' with Forest because over the past couple of years they have shown they know what they are doing.

It is worth pointing out that Forest have always improved on what they had. Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi came in for a combined £16.5m and they replaced Brennan Johnson, who went to Tottenham for about £47.5m.

They have improved since then. That was two years ago and they have done the same. Orel Mangala left, Elliot Anderson came in. Moussa Niakhate left and Murillo came in.

So they have always improved on the players they have lost.

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