Transfer Gossip Across Europe
In today’s transfer gossip, Manchester City is close to completing the signing of Bournemouth and Netherlands 25-year-old defender Nathan Ake, the player is also a major target for Chelsea. Manchester City is doing everything possible to set up a good defence ahead of the next season’s English Premier season.
According to reports from the Tuesday transfer gossip, Manchester United will make a take-it-or-leave-it offer of £80m to Borussia Dortmund for England 20-year-old winger Jadon Sancho. Manchester United is also hopeful of announcing the academy signings of Spanish 17-year-old defenders Marc Jurado and 17-year-old Alvaro Fernandez with Norwegian 15-year-old forward Isak Hansen-Aaron.
Chelsea is in talks with Bayer Leverkusen over a £70m deal to sign Kai Havertz, with all other suitors for the 21-year-old Germany forward thought to be out of the race. But Bayer Leverkusen wants a fee worth potentially more than £90m they expect £63m upfront with more than £27m in additional clauses. Chelsea will have to pay Slovenia international Jan Oblak’s 120m euro (£110m) release clause to force talks with the 27-year-old Atletico Madrid goalkeeper.
Spain 23-year-old midfielder Dani Ceballos has made it clear that he would be happy to return to Arsenal next season after helping the Gunners reach the FA Cup final during his loan spell from Real Madrid. Arsenal’s 31-year-old German midfielder Mesut Ozil has rejected an approach from Turkish side Fenerbahce, he is likely to remain at the club.
But Ozil could still yet move to Turkey as newly crowned champions Istanbul Basaksehir is ready to make a move. Arsenal could trigger the £40m release clause in the contract of Sporting Lisbon’s 17-year-old Portuguese forward Joelson Fernandes in the next 24 hours.
Former Southampton and Leicester boss Claude Puel is the early favourite to take over as Watford’s next manager after the Hornets sacked Nigel Pearson According to the latest transfer gossip. Relegation-threatened Watford faces a potential financial problem as their biggest earners would not see their salaries drop if they fell into the Championship.
Fulham is also in the transfer gossip and they are considering a £22.5m bid from La Liga club Villarreal for midfielder Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa. The 24-year-old Cameroon international has been on loan at Villarreal this season. Newcastle has been monitoring Motherwell’s Scottish midfielder David Turnbull, 21, who has also been linked with Celtic. West Ham has no plans to discuss a new contract with captain Mark Noble, 33, whose current deal expires in the summer of 2021.
Despite two rejected bids, Tottenham is confident of completing the signing of 23-year-old Beijing Guoan and South Korea defender Kim Min-Jae, who has been dubbed ‘the South Korean Virgil van Dijk’.
Southampton has agreed with the £10.9m signing of Ghanaian Mohammed Salisu, 21, from Real Valladolid after finalising personal terms with the defender on a deal worth £35,000 per year. Burnley have targeted Southampton midfielder Harrison Reed, 25, who has impressed on loan at Fulham.