Manchester United could be in for a busy summer and reports suggest they’ve set their sights on raiding relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest

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Manchester United are reportedly interested in Nottingham Forest duo Morgan Gibbs-White and Elliot Anderson. And some sales might have to be sanctioned to afford this blockbuster double deal.

With Michael Carrick at the helm, United have made significant improvements over the last month. Having supplanted Ruben Amorim, the English manager is yet to lose any of his first six matches in charge during this spell.

Yet, bolstering the squad when the summer window opens must still be on the club’s agenda and they have reportedly singled out both Gibbs-White and Anderson. The former was the subject of a £60million bid from Tottenham over the summer, though this was rebuffed and he shortly thereafter signed a new three-year deal at the City Ground.

Anderson is one of the Premier League’s hottest properties and whispers of a £100m price tag continue to swirl. Irrespective of whether Forest survive the drop, it appears United may launch an assault on this pair and the Manchester Evening News looks at sales the club could sanction to fund it.

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There are two obvious moves that United are expected to make come the summer: offloading both Marcus Rashford and Rasmus Hojlund, who are currently away on loan.

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Rashford joined Barcelona last year and despite the potential roadblock of a renegotiation, he has a £26m purchase option that the Catalan club are expected to exercise.

Hojlund is thriving at Napoli and he too has a buy-out obligation. This £38m clause is activated if Napoli qualify for next season’s Champions League and even if they don’t, it is still expected they’d attempt to purchase him.

If both of these exits go smoothly then they may generate £64m, with Rashford’s sale acting as pure profit. Next, should the dynamic Gibbs-White arrive, he would surely take the place of Bruno Fernandes in the first team.

The club captain has been a loyal servant to United, but at 31, he is only going to regress. Speculation has already begun over a potential summer departure after a Saudi Pro League saga last year.

He is only under contract until 2027 and would likely demand astronomical wages to renew. The Daily Mail reports that he has a £56.6m release clause in his contract for clubs outside of England.

Two other squad players could join Fernandes out the exit door, Mason Mount and Joshua Zirkzee. The Dutch forward was linked with a move away in January and appears out of the first-team picture.

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Mount has struggled with injuries since his £60m move from Chelsea in 2023 and he would free up space if Anderson is to sign. January rumours placed Zirkzee’s price at around the £20m mark, with Mount valued at £28m as per Transfermarkt.

Altogether, selling these five players could raise roughly £170m. Forest may demand near £100m for Anderson and there is a release clause in the new deal Gibbs-White penned last summer which prevents a bidding war.

Nevertheless, a combined £170m, not to mention the wages that United may have been able to get off their books with these sales, would surely be enough to secure this potentially game-changing double transfer if personal terms can be agreed.

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Lots of recreational golfers have the right instinct about what’s wrong with their swing. But issues arise when they apply a superficial “solution” that doesn’t address the actual issues in their swings.

​The best example? Tons of amateurs “scoop” the clubhead as they make impact with the ball. It translates into weak contact with too much loft and (usually) an open clubface. It only takes a few of those shots before you start trying to do something to address it.

Usually, that means shoving the handle toward the target in an effort to remove the scooping motion. You might be able to get away with that on a short pitch or chip, but when you add length and speed to the swing, that handle shove actually makes you scoop it more because your body responds by backing out of the shot. This will have you dumping the clubhead just to avoid hitting the ground six inches behind the ball. 

​In reality, the root cause of scooping at impact often has nothing to do with your hands or your release. It happens because you aren’t rotating in a way that moves the low point in front of the ball, which promotes proper compression of the ball at impact.

​Working with my teaching partner Morgan Hale, we addressed this exact problem in the video below. The student was stalling his rotation, standing up out of his posture and using his hands to try to create more speed through impact — but that doesn’t work!

To help fix the issue, we gave him three easy drills to improve his rotation, create a real pivot and get his low point more in front of the ball. If you struggle with scooping your irons at impact, they may help you, too.

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3 drills for better compression

1. Stretch and turn

Pull an exercise band against your chest by extending your arms completely, then make slow backswings and through-swings as you keep the band fully stretched. If you stop rotating or make an over-the-top move, you’ll instantly lose the stretch on the band. 

2. Push with precision

Lots of people do a good job pushing with their trail foot during the downswing, but when they do it, they slide everything toward the target. Pushing is good, but you need to add in the feel of pushing your lead hip back to get the proper turn through the ball. 

To teach yourself this feel, have a friend stand to the side and hold an alignment stick in front of your lead hip. As you make practice swings with no club, make sure you’re turning through in a way that doesn’t bump your lead hip into the club.

3. Lawn mower stretch

Another way to feel that is to have somebody stand in front of you holding the resistance band on the ground with their foot where the ball would be. Hold the other end of the band in your lead hand, and when you make your downswing, pull the band tight post-impact, like you’re starting a lawn mower. The effort it takes to create the tension will encourage you to rotate and push that lead hip back instead of sliding it toward the target. 

The 2026 NFL Combine runs from February 26 through March 1, and we’ll have you covered with both up-to-date and historical coverage.

Here’s a look at previous 40-yard dash results for players from schools in the West.

Here are the historical vertical jump marks and bench press marks as well.

The NFL Combine’s 40-yard dash is a sprint designed to evaluate the speed and acceleration of football players by scouts for the Draft.

Traditionally, a player’s recorded time would only impact his prospects at the “skill” positions, but these days a fast time is telling for almost every position on the field.

Of course, the 40 is not an official race in track and field athletics. So why that distance and not a 50 or 100?

According to Michael MacCambridge in America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation, the origin of timing football players for 40 yards comes from the average distance of a punt and the time it takes to reach that distance, as determined by Paul Brown in the mid-1940s.

Punts average around 40 yards in distance from the line of scrimmage, and the hangtime (or time of flight) averages approximately 4.5 seconds.

Theoretically, then, if a player can run 40 yards in 4.5 seconds, he will be able to leave the line of scrimmage when a punt is kicked and reach the point where the ball comes down as it arrives.

Below we’ve compiled the 40-yard-dash time for every player from the region who has run it at the NFL Combine since 2000, along with their position, school, and the year they participated, in a searchable, sortable table.

Since the Combine wasn’t held in 2021 due to the pandemic, we’ve included the team Pr0-Day drill results for that year instead.

Washington’s John Ross recorded the fastest 40-yard-dash time among former SuperWest players and owns the all-time NFL Combine mark.