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Football Rumours on Wednesday 30th May 2018
2018-05-30 10:00:23





TRANSFER RUMOURS

  • Arsenal still hope to sign Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Stephan Lichtsteiner and Caglar Soyuncu before the World Cup begins.
    (Daily Mirror)


  • Tottenham fear that their hopes of signing Fulham's 18-year-old English midfielder Ryan Sessegnon will be damaged by Cottagers' owner Shahid Khan's bid to buy Wembley.
    (London Evening Standard)


  • Tottenham are keeping tabs on Southampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy as a possible understudy for No 1 Hugo Lloris.
    (Daily Mirror)


  • Real Madrid are favourites to beat Arsenal to the signature of Atletico Madrid's Uruguayan defender Jose Gimenez, and are set to active his £53m release clause.
    (Talksport)


  • The Gunners are weighing up a move for Sampdoria midfielder Lucas Torreira. The 22-year-old Uruguay international has a 25m euro (£21m) release clause.
    (Calciomercato)


  • Fulham are ready to make a £9m raid on Bristol City for defender Aden Flint as well as sign loanees Matt Targett and Aleksandar Mitrovic.
    (Daily Star)


  • Rafa Benitez could get an extra £30m to spend with the club set to allow Aleksandar Mitrovic to leave for Fulham, sell Chancel Mbemba and Mats Sels to Anderlecht and give Mikel Merino the chance to move back to Spain.
    (Sun)


  • Newcastle want to sign Fulham's 25-year-old English defender Ryan Fredericks.
    (Newcastle Chronicle)


  • Manchester United will offer Real Madrid 140m euros (£121.8m) for 28-year-old Welsh midfielder Gareth Bale.
    (AS)


  • United and Chelsea are interested in Barcelona's Spanish 29-year-old left-back Jordi Alba.
    (Sport)


  • Maurizio Sarri has told Chelsea he wants to sign Inter Milan's Argentine centre forward Mauro Icardi, 25, if he is made Blues boss.
    (Corriere dello Sport)


  • Manchester City believe they can sign Leicester's Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez, 27, for a knockdown fee of £60m - though it will still break their transfer record.
    (Sun)


  • The president of Italian third-tier side Rimini FC has offered to take Liverpool keeper Loris Karius on a year-long loan deal as a gift for his birthday, which is 22 June, so the 24-year-old German can "rediscover calm and his self-belief" after his Champions League final disaster.
    (Rimini FC)


  • Roma will demand 90m euros (£79m) for goalkeeper Alisson and plan to resist Liverpool's advances for the 25-year-old Brazilian until after the World Cup.
    (Guardian)


  • West Ham are in talks with Barcelona with a view to signing their 22-year-old Brazilian centre-back Marlon Santos.
    (Mundo Deportivo)


  • The Hammers are also keen to bring Genoa's 26-year-old Italian defender Armando Izzo to the club.
    (Sky Sports)


  • Inter Milan will have to pay 40m euros (£34.8m) for Barcelona's 25-year-old Brazilian midfielder Rafinha, who was on loan with the Serie A club last season.
    (La Gazzetta dello Sport)


  • Lazio president Claudio Lotito said he turned down a 110m euros (£95.75m) bid for 23-year-old Serb midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.
    (Football Italia)


  • Burnley want to re-sign English forward Jay Rodriguez from West Brom. The 28-year-old spent five years at Turf Moor before moving to Southampton in 2012.
    (Times)


  • Manchester City's English midfielder Phil Foden, who turns 18 on Monday, will be offered a new contract and will not be sent out on loan next season.
    (Daily Telegraph)


  • Bournemouth's 26-year-old Norwegian striker Joshua King says he is unhappy with how his manager Eddie Howe used him last season.
    (Independent)


  • Hull City defender Michael Dawson is closing on a move back to boyhood club Nottingham Forest.
    (Daily Mail)


  • Newcastle could swoop for Middlesbrough's 22-year-old Spanish winger Adama Traore.
    (Yorkshire Post)


  • Leeds United's Swedish striker Marcus Antonsson, 27, is unclear about his future at the Championship club.
    (Yorkshire Evening Post)




  • MANAGEMENT STUFF

  • New Arsenal boss Unai Emery is set for a backroom shake-up that could see Steve Bould and Jens Lehmann leave the Emirates.
    (Sun)


  • Chelsea's deal to appoint Maurizio Sarri is close to collapse over Napoli's insistence on them paying his full £7m release clause.
    (Daily Express)


  • Greenock Morton are set to appoint former Dundee United boss Ray McKinnon as their new manager.
    (Sky Sports)




  • INTERNATIONAL STUFF

  • Ashley Young says his bust-up with England team-mate Dele Alli is all forgotten.
    (Sun)


  • World Cup-bound Panama were held to a 0-0 draw in their friendly warm-up match against Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
    (Sky Sports)




  • OTHER STUFF

  • PFA chairman Gordon Taylor can understand concerns over the potential sale of Wembley Stadium, but can see the benefits for grassroots football.
    (Sky Sports)


  • A significant VAR-related rule change could now mean players being retrospectively sent off over an incident of violent conduct which occurred earlier in a game.
    (Daily Mail)


  • The FA is expected to confirm details of a Premier League winter break, starting in the 2019-2020 season, in the next fortnight.
    (Sky Sports)


  • Tottenham midfielder Harry Winks has undergone successful surgery on his ankle.
    (Sky Sports)


  • Sergio Ramos has avoided disciplinary action from UEFA for his off-the-ball clash with Loris Karius in Saturday's Champions League final.
    (Sky Sports)


  • Thousands of people have signed a tongue-in-cheek petition calling for the World Cup to be delayed until doubts over Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner's fitness for the tournament have been resolved.
    (Sun)


  • Louis van Gaal has revealed his pride in developing Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard into key Manchester United and England stars.
    (Sun)






















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