Elliot Anderson is the summer's hottest English midfielder, and Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is the last guy on the planet you want to try to nickel-and-dime. Marinakis runs Forest and Olympiacos with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and his reputation for going scorched-earth on anyone who disrespects his clubs is well-documented. So naturally, the Barstool brain trust is now openly fantasizing about waltzing in with a discount offer.
A joke visual of what allegedly happens when you try to underbid Marinakis on his prized asset.
The gag works because Marinakis genuinely does have a long history of stadium incidents, touchline confrontations, and bans — this isn't a guy who quietly accepts a sub-market bid and sends a polite counter. Anderson, meanwhile, has gone from Newcastle academy kid to one of the most coveted central midfielders in the Premier League after a breakout campaign at the City Ground. Whatever his real price ends up being, it's not going to start with a 1.
Zah's counter-proposal to the lowball strategy.
@BarstoolChief Fleece them. Demand $140m
$140M for a 23-year-old English international with multiple years left on his deal is, frankly, not even that crazy in 2026 money. Declan Rice went for more. Moises Caicedo went for more. The Premier League midfielder market has been completely warped, and a chunk of that warping is coming from a direction nobody can control.
Zah blaming the Madrid presidential election cycle for the chaos rippling through the European market.
When the hell is this Madrid election so we can just get some peace in this world? They’re disrupting the transfer market with all their statements on who they’ll sign!
He's not wrong. Real Madrid presidential elections turn into transfer-market weather systems — candidates float signings to win votes, agents leak interest to drive up prices elsewhere, and every club from London to Naples ends up bidding against a phantom Madrid offer that may never materialize. Until that settles, every Anderson rumor gets a Madrid-shaped asterisk attached to it. Chief might want to put the offer sheet down for a minute.