I don’t know that much about Anderson (“midfield” can cover a multitude of sins), but the general vibe is that he fits the young/potential model. If we have to move one of our forward players for spreadsheet-y reasons, personally I’d prefer to lose Elanga than CHO.
Elanga isn't selling for more than probably 20M and we paid 15-16M, so assuming it's before Monday we're only realising 4-5M. CHO would like go for the same value but even with 50% to Chelsea we'd generate more profit, and I think Elanga offers more long term value to us on the pitch.
I like Elanga and he fits with Forest. He is not the finished article but he is electric. Elliot Anderson is also very good but a completely different player. He also has injury concerns (shocker). Minteh is very highly rated but having said that he was ace in the Dutch league last season so that doesn't count.
I also thought we bought Elanga for 10 million but could be wrong.
Anyway, don't necessarily like this as it will fuck up our counter attacking game which seems to be the only thing that works. Unless we are buying Pedro Neto from Wolves who is fantastic but a total Darren Anderson.
Having said that we are after Wesley from Brazil who is also meant to be highly rated.
I think CHO has shown us all he is, and will be. I don't necessarily dispute an argument that he's currently a more reliably impactful player than Elanga, but I think that Elanga has all the skills that CHO does and some more besides. With the right development I'm very sure he's going to be the better player.
CHO was a generational talent at youth and early career level, Elanaga has always been rougher. But I wouldn't enjoy seeing either leave as they were good last year and probably are going to get better.