Arsenal defender William Saliba wants to stay in the UK if he is allowed to leave in the UK. Signed from St. Étienne for £27 million in the summer of 2019, he has yet to make a senior appearance for the Gunners. He spent last season back on loan at the Ligue 1 side, and when he eventually moved to ...
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Eriksen to snub United
Christian Eriksen is set to snub the chance to join Manchester United in January. The Dane is set to leave Inter Milan after less than a year, having started just 4 Serie A games under Antonio Conte. However, he is unwilling to return to the Premier League because that would be seen as an admission of failure, and that he ...
Read More »Spurs will let Alli leave
Tottenham are prepared to let Dele Alli leave on loan in January. With the 24-year-old expressing his unhappiness at his lack of first-team football in North London and with his hopes of making the England squad for the Euros fast receding Alli has been pressing to be allowed to leave the club when the window opens. Chairman Daniel Levy does ...
Read More »Chelsea struggling to shift unwanted players
Chelsea want to get rid of Marcos Alonso, Kepa Arrizabalaga and Andreas Christensen in January, but are finding it difficult to find any clubs who want to take them. Frank Lampard wants to trim his squad in January after the summer transfer splurge, and is hoping to move on some of those he deems surplus to requirements at the club, ...
Read More »Wolves want City left-back
Wolves are going to make another attempt to sign Manchester City left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko when the January window opens. They failed with a £19 million bid for the Ukrainian international in the summer but are ready to try again in January. At the time Zinchenko was prepared to stary and fight for his place at the Etihad, but, having fallen ...
Read More »Money laundering rife in football transfers
An unpublished report commissioned by UEFA in 2018 found that money laundering was rife in the transfer market and that dominant agents exploited loopholes to get round the rules prohibiting third party transfers. The report made eight recommendations, none of which have subsequently been implemented, although one may be introduced soon, and votes on some of the others are expected ...
Read More »Arsenal to lose out on main transfer target
Arsenal are set to miss out on their main January transfer target with the news that Red Bull Salzburg’s Dominik Szoboszlai is set to join RB Leipzig instead. He will sign a five-year deal with the Red Bull sister club when the January window opens. The Gunners wanted to bring the 20-year-old Hungarian international to the Emirates to help solve ...
Read More »Winks wants Tottenham showdown
Harry Winks wants a meeting with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy to discuss his lack of playing time at the club. Th 24-year-old is concerned that could damage his prospects of being picked for next summer’s England squad for the European Championship. And now he is considering leaving the club in January, despite being a boyhood Spurs fan. Winks played in ...
Read More »PSG want Alli loan
PSG are preparing to make a bid to take Tottenham midfielder on loan in January. And this time it looks like they may get their man, with the Premier League leaders ready to let him leave. The French champions made a number of attempts to sign him over the summer but their approaches were rebuffed at that stage. However, with ...
Read More »Balogun wants to stay at Arsenal
Young Arsenal striker Folarin Balogun wants to stay at Arsenal. That is according to Mikel Arteta speaking after the 19-year-old produced another impressive cameo in the Europa League away to Dundalk on Thursday night. Coming on as a second-half substitute, he set-up Joe Willock for the third goal and then got on the score sheet himself with a confident first-time ...
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