Harry Toffolo: 'The sky is the limit' for 'humble' Nottingham Forest star Morgan Gibbs-White

Harry Toffolo says the sky is the limit for Nottingham Forest team-mate Morgan Gibbs-White.

Gibbs-White has starred Forest this season, with three more goals and three assists to his name, and has been entrusted to captain the team at times this season at the tender age of 24.

The midfielder will undoubtedly be key to Forest's chances of staying in the first division this season, but his performances have not gone unnoticed with both Spurs and Newcastle being linked with a possible future move.

Gibbs-White is known to new Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo after the duo worked together at Wolves and Toffolo believes there is plenty more to come from the midfielder.

Speaking exclusively to talkSPORT, Toffolo said: “It's brilliant. He is a fantastic player. The sky is the limit for Morgan. He has all the skill in the world and also has a head on in his personal and professional life.

“He is a great person (and) comes from a very humble background. Her mom and her dad are lovely since I know them personally. He is simply a good man, a good father and a good footballer.”

It was another busy transfer window for Forest, who added Gio Reyna, Rodrigo Ribeiro and Matz Sels to their already bloated squad despite being accused by the Premier League of breaching profit and sustainability rules.

They are currently in 16^th place in the table – just two points above the relegation zone – but have shown signs of improvement under Nuno, who replaced Steve Cooper in December.

“He (Nuno) is a fantastic person to work with. He is very communicative with the guys and the fact that someone of his and her ethnic background can speak four or five different languages ​​is incredible,” Toffolo explained.

“He has the entire dressing room in the palm of his hand because he has everyone talking to him and singing from the same hymnal and that is a credit to him.

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“Obviously I have a lot of respect for Steve and the new coach is implementing his style of play. We want to keep moving forward with the new way and the new way we want to play. It's important for us as players to accept it as quickly as possible, and I think we have done that.

“I think we will go from strength to strength. We may not go from zero to 100 right away, but if we can keep working and improving all the time, then that's something we want and we can see it every day with the coach. That is why we are looking to the future.”

Toffolo spoke to talkSPORT at the City Ground, where he was attending a historic conference organized by Nottingham Forest, Havard University's Weatherhead Center and the Lilian Thuram Foundation which aimed to address the issues of racism and gender equality in football .

AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan left the pitch with his team-mates after being subjected to racist chants by Udinese fans just two weeks ago, while in the UK Coventry's Kasey Palmer City, alleged that he suffered racial abuse while playing against Sheffield Wednesday.

Those incidents have been condemned by Toffolo, who said he would not hesitate to leave the field if any of his teammates or opponents were subjected to racism.

He added: “We can talk and talk and talk and organize these conferences, but it is also up to the general public to do the right thing and that starts with the education of our children, the education of the next generation, but also, looking at yourself and everyone in the mirror and saying, 'Am I doing everything I can to stop racism and stop gender inequality?'

“I think everyone needs to look at themselves and say, 'How can we move this forward?' because it's 2024 (and) it's heartbreaking that we're still talking about things like this.

“But we are and we can't let the fight end because I'm going to raise my children and I want them to grow up in a world where, potentially, they will have families of different races, genders and religions and I want them to feel that there is a safe space ( for them) to raise their children in a very clean environment.

“It's something within football where you need to take a stance and if something like that happened in a match I played in and one of my teammates or an opponent ever received racial abuse or discriminatory words, I think you would have to take a stance. and walk off the field. “This can't go on like this any longer. I support my teammate, I support my opposition and I support any human being.”