When the 2025-26 season ended, most believed Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones was set to head to Serie A with Inter Milan maintaining their interest in the 25-year-old Scouser after the Reds blocked an approach from them in January. There was only one problem, though. Namely, Serie A sides are perpetually crying poor.
Despite being one of the top four leagues in the world, Italian club spending on player lags behind other leagues and Inter struggled to meet Liverpool’s seemingly reasonable £35M asking
price—and not just by a little, as the Italians were barely able to make it past £20M before Liverpool called them out for not being serious and told them to go away.
It appears that from Liverpool’s point of view that’s the end of it, at least regarding Inter, but there’s a new potential suitor in the mix for Jones a lot closer to home after Nottingham Forest completed the monster £116M sale of midfielder Elliot Anderson to Manchester City.
That deal both means Forest have plenty of cash—though nobody would blink at a bottom half Premier League side like Forest paying £35M for a player like Jones to begin with—and a need to bring in a midfielder or two to replace the departing Anderson. And according to The Mail, it is in fact Jones who’s one of the names neat the top of their list.
Whether or not it would be a move that would appeal to Jones more than staying at Liverpool and perhaps signing a contract extension is a different question. Jones has just a year left on his Liverpool contract and the reality is that he got plenty of playing time last season with Liverpool.
The question then becomes if Jones simply wants a change of scenery regardless destination, or if the idea of a new challenge and competing for silverware in Italy was the draw of Inter. It would raise eyebrows if Jones, who made 49 appearances totalling 2,850 minutes last season for the Reds, would be so eager to leave he would push to join Forest.
