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Transfer Rumour Bolleaux

Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian are considering an £80m bid for Chelsea striker Diego Costa, 28. (Sun on Sunday)

Juventus want to sign 28-year-old Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez after generating almost £340m in revenues for 2016. (Calciomercato, via Sunday Express)

Boss Diego Simeone will not be leaving Atletico Madrid in the summer to replace Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, say the Spanish club. (La Sexta, via Sun)

Manager Ronald Koeman has asked Everton owner Farhad Moshiri to make a £50m bid for Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk, 25. (Sunday Mirror)

The Toffees are also interested in Manchester United defender Chris Smalling, 27.(Star on Sunday)

Southampton striker Shane Long, 29, and Brentford's Scott Hogan, 24, have emerged as alternative January targets for West Ham if they cannot prise first-choice Jermain Defoe, 34, away from Sunderland. (Sunday Telegraph)

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The Mail on Sunday's backpage
Midfielder Jack Wheelchair, 25, who is on loan at Bournemouth, will be offered a new contract at parent club Arsenal. (Sun on Sunday)

Manchester United are set to offer 33-year-old Real Madrid defender Pepe, who is out of contract in the summer, a move to the Premier League. (Sunday Express)

England and Emirates Marketing Project goalkeeper Joe Hart, 29, is keen on a move to Liverpool when his loan at Italian side Torino ends in the summer. (Sunday Mirror)

Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain are interested in signing Napoli left-back Faouzi Ghoulam, 25. (Calcio Mercato)

Watford are considering a move to bring Nottingham Forest midfielder Henri Lansbury, 26, back to the club. (Watford Observer)

Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta, 32, wants to stay at the Nou Camp beyond the end of his contract in 2018. (Marca)

Goalkeeper Lee Grant, 33, will seal a permanent move to Stoke after Derby County accepted a deal worth £1.5m plus £750,000 in potential add-ons. (Mail on Sunday)

Hull City want to sign FC Groningen right-back Hans Hateboer, 22. (Telegraaf, via Hull Daily Mail)

Zenit St Petersburg midfielder Axel Witsel, 27, will choose a move to Chinese Super League side Shanghai SIPG over joining Juventus. (Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian)

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The Star on Sunday's backpage
Southampton defender Jose Fonte, 33, should "do the best for himself" in the transfer window, says Saints and Portugal team-mate Cedric Soares, 25. Fonte is unsettled and could leave in January. (Southern Daily Echo)

Real Madrid midfielder James Rodriguez, 25, will stay at the Bernabeu, according to his father. (AS, via Diez)

Brighton striker Elvis Manu, 23, is joining Go Ahead Eagles in his native Netherlands on loan for the rest of the season. (Brighton Argus)

Birmingham City boss Gianfranco Zola has warned fans not to expect a rush of signings at the start of the January transfer window. (Birmingham Mail)

Ipswich Town boss Mick McCarthy says some fans want him out and have become bored of him. (East Anglian Daily Times)

Wolves boss Paul Lambert says he will be "ruthless" in the January transfer window as he sets about rebuilding the squad. (Wolverhampton Express & Star)

Nottingham Forest say they expect to put right the issue which has left them facing another transfer embargo. (Nottingham Post)

League One Bolton Wanderers want to extend the loans of Saudi Sportswashing Machine winger Sammy Ameobi, 24, and Wolves midfielder James Henry, 27, until the end of the season. (The Bolton News)

League One strugglers Coventry City are close to signing former Huddersfield Town captain Nathan Clarke, 33. (Coventry Telegraph)
 
Chelsea will bid £60m for Southampton's Netherlands international defender Virgil van Dijk, 25, who is also wanted by Emirates Marketing Project. (Daily Express)

£60m hahahaha and Chelsea, well being Chelsea
 
The Blues' leading scorer Diego Costa, 28, subject of a rumoured £80m bid from Chinese Super League side Tianjin Quanjian, says he is "very happy" at Stamford Bridge. (Daily Mirror)

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Manchester United have targeted France forward Antoine Griezmann, 25, and Spain midfielder Saul Niguez, 22. The Atletico Madrid duo have release clauses totalling £145m on contracts that were renewed last summer. (The Times - subscription required)

United manager Jose Mourinho is also thought to want Real Madrid central defender Pepe, 33, but could face competition from clubs in the lucrative Chinese Super League. (Sun)

However, Mourinho will not sign a striker this month, saying he trusts England forward Marcus Rashford, 18. (Sun)

Benfica defender Victor Lindelof, 22, has also been linked with a £38m move to United, which could spell the end of Chris Smalling's time at the club. Everton and Arsenal may bid for England international Smalling, 27. (Daily Star)

An announcement from Benfica about Lindelof, and what would be a club-record £40m sale for the Portuguese club, could be imminent. (A Bola, via Daily Star)

Paul Clement is expected to be appointed Swansea manager on Tuesday and is understood to have been offered a two-and-a-half-year deal. It is unlikely he will take charge for Tuesday's game at Crystal Palace.(Daily Mail)

Sunderland manager David Moyes is concerned he may not be able to attract enough quality players this month.(Daily Telegraph)

Liverpool could turn their attention to RB Leipzig winger Emil Forsberg, 25, after Borussia Dortmund insisted their 18-year-old American attacking midfielder Christian Pulisic is not for sale. (Daily Mirror)

Arsenal want Sevilla's French midfielder Steven N'Zonzi, 28, who is also a target for Chelsea, Emirates Marketing Project and Juventus. (Daily Express)

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Emirates Marketing Project's England goalkeeper Joe Hart, 29, is unlikely to make a permanent move to Torino because the Serie A side are unable to afford his high wages, club president Urbano Cairo has revealed. (La Stampa, via Daily Mail)

Hart will not be a target for Liverpool in this transfer window or the next. (Sky Sports)

But Liverpool are lining up a move for Benfica's £22m-rated Mexico international striker Raul Jimenez, 25. (Squawka)

Liverpool want to sign 21-year-old Wembley-born winger Jacob Murphy from Norwich, then loan him back to the Canaries in a bid to beat Tottenham to his signature. (Daily Mirror)

Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva, 29, could stay at Anfield beyond this month, despite interest from Inter Milan. The Reds are prepared to sell the Brazilian but the Italian club are thought to want a loan deal. (Liverpool Echo)

Saudi Sportswashing Machine have made contact with Everton about signing midfielder Tom Cleverley, 27, on loan. (Saudi Sportswashing Machine Chronicle)

Aberdeen will increase their efforts to keep Niall McGinn, 29, after the winger emerged as a target for Hearts. (Daily Record)

Birmingham have ended their interest in Nottingham Forest captain Henri Lansbury. Former boss Gary Rowett had been preparing a bid for the 26-year-old but successor Gianfranco Zola will not be pursuing the midfielder. (Birmingham Mail)

Brighton are expected to make 33-year-old striker Glenn Murray's loan from Bournemouth a permanent transfer in the January window.(Sky Sports)

Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland, 23, may miss the entire season with an ankle injury.(Guardian)
 
LemonadeMoney said:
From what I saw in our Southampton match, Wimmer is better than VvD.
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vvD is a very good centre back but being hyped up as the bext big thing because it seems some clubs lack imagination or the ability to look beyond Name players

Wimmer cost £4M and is better than any City centre back with their average fee being around £35m. Says more about City to me
 
Bedfordspurs said:
vvD is a very good centre back but being hyped up as the bext big thing because it seems some clubs lack imagination or the ability to look beyond Name players

Wimmer cost £4M and is better than any City centre back with their average fee being around £35m. Says more about City to me
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Someone in another thread said 'team' teams are winning these days rather than galactico teams, but that's because the money teams have spent there budget on brick.
 
LemonadeMoney said:
Someone in another thread said 'team' teams are winning these days rather than galactico teams, but that's because the money teams have spent there budget on bricke.
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I agree massively

If you have a system and a structure you can out perform teams that have "better players on paper"

The reality is though that City actually have brought really badly... aguero and de bruyne are class but you see players like Delph still there, Ottamebdi, Mangala, Bony... that's almost £120m of player that are brick

Chelsea are earning rave reviews and rightly so but again they spent £120m odd in the summer on Kante, Alonso, Batshuiyi and side show bob.... they should be better having lost no one and actually spending more money than our whole first 11 cost yesterday
 
Bruma of Galatasary has been mentionned in the press. He looks like a really impressive player, probably a younger and cheaper version of Mané. My question though, is has GKN completely flopped?
 
Cochise said:
Bruma of Galatasary has been mentionned in the press. He looks like a really impressive player, probably a younger and cheaper version of Mané. My question though, is has GKN completely flopped?
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Dont suppose we can write him just yet, but it isnt looking good at present, but tbh I never got why we sort of swapped him for N'jie
 
Cochise said:
. My question though, is has GKN completely flopped?
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Just highlights our problem in trying to improve .. our team (first 11) is actually very well balanced, and most players are upper tier PL quality.

- No major gap (we have good back 5, two DM's, good possession based CMs, good front 3 pivot, and the best English striker in league)
- You really have 3 choices
- Buy a WC player to walk on team (unlikely to afford or attract)
- Buy depth players that won't obviously affect first team results (Trippier, Davies, Janssen & Sissoko to a lesser extent are that)
- Buy potential, and hope that potential can take limited opportunities to prove themselves.


I'd argue, I'm not sure Dele, Rose or even Kane (in their initial versions) would be allowed enough time to make a spot on the team their own now. Dele is our "luxury" player, every one else works their ass off and puts in a fairly consistent level of performance.
 
Cochise said:
Bruma of Galatasary has been mentionned in the press. He looks like a really impressive player, probably a younger and cheaper version of Mané. My question though, is has GKN completely flopped?
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Adrian Gaffney (journalist following Spanish football (and Spurs fan)) tweeted a couple of bits about Bruma earlier :
https://twitter.com/x/status/816055939858132992
https://twitter.com/x/status/816056410358370304

There was also a mention that he is delaying signing an extended contract. So whether links to us are genuine, or just part of an agent ploy to extract a better deal, who knows.
 
Cochise said:
Bruma of Galatasary has been mentionned in the press. He looks like a really impressive player, probably a younger and cheaper version of Mané. My question though, is has GKN completely flopped?
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Personally I don't think he looks ready yet and needs games. Maybe he could get say 10-15 FAC and EL games if we do well and that would help him settle but I wouldn't want him starting a PL game yet
 
Impossible to know from the outside if Pochettino thinks GKN just isn't ready yet and just needs time on the training ground or if he's not quite the player we thought he was when we signed him. For me he's shown quite a lot of potential when given the chance so I hope it's the former.
 
We haven't really seen enough of GKN to judge him for my money, possibly because he could be viewed as a riskier option when we haven't been as effective at regaining lost possession high up this season. Maybe if Lamela had been fit, we'd have seen a bit more of what he can do. I suspect we're going to see more of these 'growth potential' type purchases, though.
 
braineclipse said:
Impossible to know from the outside if Pochettino thinks GKN just isn't ready yet and just needs time on the training ground or if he's not quite the player we thought he was when we signed him. For me he's shown quite a lot of potential when given the chance so I hope it's the former.
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Agree. This time last year I would have said theres no way Poch will get rid and is probably just giving him the necessary time to bed in - Poch seems to be good at knowing when to blood a young player. However his situation to me seem pretty identical to N'Jie as I thought he showed plenty of potential with some good cameos yet before he'd been given a proper run to see if would sink or swim he'd been released. GKN seems to also have something about him so I hope he is going to be given further time to flourish....
 
harr1984 said:
Agree. This time last year I would have said theres no way Poch will get rid and is probably just giving him the necessary time to bed in - Poch seems to be good at knowing when to blood a young player. However his situation to me seem pretty identical to N'Jie as I thought he showed plenty of potential with some good cameos yet before he'd been given a proper run to see if would sink or swim he'd been released. GKN seems to also have something about him so I hope he is going to be given further time to flourish....
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In his limited time GKN looks miles better than Njie, he will get a few games in the FA cup I imagine (hopefully!!)
 
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