Premier League clubs have just one week to close deals and business is starting to improve.
Manchester United’s chances of signing Manuel Ugarte from Paris Saint-Germain have increased in recent days. Erik ten Hag has spoken about his current resolution relating to the future of Jadon Sancho, who was not included in United’s squad for the day but was forced to go south following United’s 2-1 defeat against Brighton .
Arsenal have now agreed a deal for Mikel Merino, with an official announcement expected in the coming days. Aaron Ramsdale, who has been linked with a move from north London in the summer, is on the Gunners’ bench for their game against Aston Villa.
Liverpool manager Arne Slot is not yet signed, the Reds are linked with Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite.
Reigning Premier League champions Manchester City have also sprung into action after re-signing Ilkay Gundogan just 12 months after he left to join Barcelona.
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The Tractor Boys have one up for grabs! We met the former Tottenham player on his way to his medical at Portguy Road and he has now signed on the dotted line.
After scoring 28 goals in 114 appearances for Sunderland, Clarke has said he is fit to open a new bench and try his luck in the Premier League.
“I’m excited to have joined the club and I can’t wait to get started,” Clarke said.
“Ipswich have had a very smart run over the last few years and this summer’s recruitment has been very impressive, so it was anything that interested me.
“Talking to Kieran McKenna sells the club and the adventure he’s on, as well as what they’re still looking to achieve, and you’re almost a fool if you need to sign up to find out how things are going. unfold. “
Porto have presented Atlético de Madrid forward Samu Omorodion as their new signing, weeks after his move to Chelsea failed.
The 20-year-old looked set to sign for a Blues player earlier this month, before the £34. 5million deal was agreed, which had a domino effect that sank Conor Gallagher’s move into the La Liga side.
While Gallagher nevertheless secured his move to Atlético, Chelsea canceled negotiations to sign Omorodion and now Porto have shown a video of the player being applauded by the fans in their stadium.
Southampton have reached an agreement to sign Justin Bijlow from Feyenoord to Fabrizio Romano.
A verbal agreement has reportedly been reached and the next step in sealing the deal will be an examination.
The news is a blow to Aaron Ramsdale, who has been linked with a move to the Saints as he ponders his future.
The English foreigner forced him to play a moment of trouble against David Raya at Arsenal.
And with the Spaniard making his loan deal with Brentford permanent this summer, Ramsdale will rack up normal competitive minutes.
Alex McCarthy this season as Southampton’s starting goalkeeper, but he may be ousted by Bijlow once he arrives on the south coast.
The Sporting CP striker has put an end to rumours that he could consider an exit from the club in the final days of the summer transfer window.
Arsenal have shown interest in Sweden during the summer window, and now the player himself has addressed the links of the transfer window in recent days.
“We don’t know what will happen,” he told the Portuguese media.
“Not only does he count on me, we’ll see, but I feel intelligent here. I don’t feel any tension about doing something else, but in football, the window of movements, it is general that there are things that ‘we’ No, I know, It can happen quickly, but I like being here and there is no tension.
Chelsea’s youngster Tino Anjorin will leave Stamford Bridge.
According to The Athletic, a verbal agreement has been reached with Serie A Empoli for Anjorin.
The highly valued 22-year-old has spent the past few seasons on loan at Lokomotiv Moscow, Huddersfield Town and Portsmouth, but will permanently move to the Italian striker when he passes his medical next week.
Anjorin’s departure would mark the latest academy product to leave the club, having progressed through the youth ranks at Stamford Bridge since joining the Under-7s and making five appearances for the senior team.
Ipswich have reached an agreement to sign Dara O’Shea from Burnley to The Telegraph.
The Tractor Boys have reportedly submitted an offer worth around £15m, with the 25-year-old set to sign a five-year deal with the newly promoted side.
The 25-year-old Republic of Ireland centre-back caught Brentford’s attention earlier in the window.
The Brazilian is absent from Arsenal’s Premier League squad with Aston Villa due to an abductor problem.
His absence means Kai Havertz continues to play the number nine role. Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli are alongside him in the Arsenal front line.
Havertz’s role as Arsenal’s default number nine has not gone down well with all corners of the Arsenal fan base, despite his brilliant functionality in the Gunners’ opening attack of the season, in which he scored a goal and provided the other in a 2-0 victory. The wolves.
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Real Sociedad will hire Mats Hummels, according to The Athletic.
Hummels, 35, is a free agent after leaving Borussia Dortmund. He would upgrade Robin Le Normand, who left Real for Atletico Madrid earlier this summer.
Mikel Merino will soon be announced as an Arsenal player, and Paul Merson has given his verdict on the midfielder, who will be paid £27m plus £4. 25m.
“I don’t think he’ll come in and play straight away,” former striker Merson said on Sky Sports Soccer on Saturday. “The value tells you. I think he plays where Partey plays. He adapts to Arsenal’s statutes, and they buy a very, very intelligent footballer.
Aaron Ramsdale traveled to Birmingham with Arsenal and is on the bench for Aston Villa’s 5. 30pm kick-off.
Ramsdale has been linked with a move to Wolves or Southampton in days.
Billy Gilmour was involved in Brighton’s 2-1 win over Manchester United today, despite being in the middle of a saga of moves involving Napoli.
Fabian Hürzeler on Billy Gilmour’s (exceptional) play despite communications with Napoli: “What I can say is that I’m not surprised how he played today. I see his attitude and his skills. He was absolutely focused, which is not that simple when other people reach out and say he is leaving the club#BHAFC
Chelsea have accepted Romelu Lukaku at Napoli.
Lukaku heads to Napoli for £25m (€30m) plus up to £13m (€15m) in add-ons after Napoli replaced their signing with Antonio Conte.
Neal Maupay is likely to return to France, with Nice pushing for his signature, according to reports.
Everton are in a position to sell the striker, but rejected a loan offer from Marseille earlier this summer. He is in the final year of his contract with Everton and is fit to return to his former club.
Brentford are also said to be interested in re-signing Maupay, with Ivan Toney heading to Saudi Arabia.
Today we reported that Southampton are in talks with Arsenal over the signing of Aaron Ramsdale.
Well, there’s a cat among the pigeons there, with reports in Holland suggesting the Saints are in fact completing a move for Feyenoord goalkeeper Justin Bijlow.
Bijlow will be absent from the Feyenoord squad for Sunday’s game ahead of a move next week.
Manchester United are eyeing Fluminense midfielder André as a less expensive option should they fail to sign Manuel Ugarte from PSG, according to reports in Brazil.
United are still chasing Ugarte, but have yet to reach an agreement. So they signed Fluminense than Andre, who would be paid much less: Fulham saw an offer of €25m (£21. 2m) rejected earlier this summer.
There is speculation that United could try to put pressure on PSG to reduce the €60m (£50. 8m) sale price for Ugarte to another player.
Viktor Gyokeres scored a hat-trick for Sporting Lisbon last night, before hinting that he could leave.
Gyokeres has been linked with Chelsea and Arsenal, both of whom are still interested in signing a striker, and that is still where he will end up.
“We never know what will happen,” Gyokeres told Sport TV. “It doesn’t just count on me. We’ll see, but here I feel intelligent. I don’t feel any tension about doing anything else. In football “In the movement window it’s normal, there are things we don’t know You know, that comes temporarily but I like it being here, there is no tension.
Erik ten Hag has explained why he once left Jadon Sancho out of his team amid interest in the Manchester United winger from Juventus.
United face Brighton in the Premier League opener, but Sancho is involved.
“He’s here,” Ten Hag told TNT Sports before kick-off. “But I have to make a choice. We’ve had some problems, but we want a complete team. He’s one of them and he has to compete for his position and game after game, we’ll see at a glance. But in the team, each and every one of them in each position we want to double because it’s going to be a long season. “
Emiliano Martinez believes Aaron Ramsdale will leave Arsenal for Wolves, and the Aston Villa goalkeeper is also looking to dig into his former club.
“I think he’s in a different position than me. . . he signed for £32 million, he was Arsenal’s number one; I’ve never had a chance like that,” Martinez said. “When you play every single Premier League game and then you come to the bench with the quality that Aaron has. . . I think he finds a position to play where he feels loved.
“I’ve heard that he could sign for Wolves, which I think may be a smart decision for him. He is a player that England want in their goalkeeping area. He still has a great future. “
Manchester United have been put on red alert after Fluminense president Mario Bittencourt revealed that he had promised midfielder André to “make his dream of betting in Europe come true”.
Reports from Brazil have connected Andre with United and Wolves and Mirror Football understand that Wolves have interest in the player, but are not actively in a deal at the moment, putting United in pole position if the deal for Manuel Ugarte falls through.
“This is the player we’ve been waiting for over a year to receive offers. If we don’t get any offers, we will still be the player and increase its price even more. Offers can arrive in December, January or in the middle of the year. “Next year Honestly, the player and his agent were very fair to us last year.
“It’s the player who decides, the player leaves when he needs to. It’s not smart to have a dissatisfied player. Last year he said that if we didn’t need to sell, he would stay to win the Libertadores. Now I have given my word. ” For him to make his dream of playing in Europe come true. “
Joe Gomez is expected to remain at Liverpool despite being left out of the team that beat Ipswich on matchday one. The defenseman made a play after that play, but Slot has now ruled out the option of that happening.
“At the moment I hope everyone is there. But as you know, everything can change. He has worked very hard since he came back, but he didn’t play much in the Euro Cup. When he came back in the first session, he couldn’t exercise during all the sessions” , said.
“So we had to manage their cargo a little bit. This is also the explanation for why he was not in the team last Saturday. But this week he had a smart week in terms of workload and what he could do with the team. It’s been “So far it’s been a smart week for him and for us. “
Former Manchester United star Dwigt Yorke has claimed that signing Eberechi Eze would make no difference as they prioritize a more defensive midfield.
“Not even Eberechi Eze would push Manchester United to the next point because they don’t win the ball back in the right areas,” Yorke told CSGOLuck. “United’s approach is to get the ball to you as temporarily as possible, but United are slow on the ball and allow themselves to be detected.
“No matter what type of player they recruit, they may not be able to express themselves because they may not receive the balls in the right areas. Mason Mount suffered because he does not recover the ball in the areas, they want players like Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes or Roy Keane to recover the ball and make it quickly reach the right players.
“Casemiro has regressed and Kobbie Mainoo had a wonderful season last time, but he is very young. Ten Hag asks a youngster to do a task that requires time to learn. United want a player in sixth position who plays first forward. and not on the side. That’s what United did and it’s shitty to play against. “
Liverpool manager Arne Slot defended the strategy of promoting young players this summer. Slot has yet to see a new signing arrive at Anfield, but he has lost several young stars from his Reds team.
“It’s complicated because young players also need to play and if they need to develop, they have to play. That’s how it is. They are climbing the academy ladder,” he said.
“Either you’re smart enough to play with us for several minutes, or you’re not there yet, or there’s too much festivity in your position. I think this team, with what we have, has a lot of local players. “
According to The Guardian, Armando Broja’s loan to Ipswich is on the verge of collapse.
Broja was due to sign for Ipswich from Chelsea on a season-long loan, but it is claimed that “problems with paperwork” could ruin the deal and Ipswich are already looking at possible alternatives. Everton are also said to be interested in Broja.
Southampton are reportedly in talks with Arsenal over a potential loan deal for goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale.
The England international’s long career with the Gunners looks doubtful after throwing away the No. 1 shirt to David Raya. And with Raya leaving Brentford for north London this summer, Ramsdale looks set for another season of limited playing time if he remains at the Emirates.
Ramsdale is reportedly willing to look for consistent playing time elsewhere. The club said the 26-year-old could simply leave if the right offer is made, noting that the goalkeeper’s price would only be minimised if he remained on the bench.
The Gunners would prefer to proceed with a permanent sale, or at least a loan with legal responsibility to purchase. And according to Sky Sports, Arsenal and Southampton are lately discussing such a move, with the newly promoted Saints forced to buy Ramsdale if they retain their Premier League title next season.
United legend Gary Neville has overtaken Matthijs de Ligt as signing of the season. The Dutchman came just before the win over Fulham, in the last nine minutes of that game.
De Ligt deserves to be a temporary starter with Erik ten Hag once installed. And Neville believes he can be a key player for United, to the point that he could be the star signing of the summer.
Neville told Sky Sports: “I’d like to think it’s going to be De Ligt. I would like to think that De Ligt will be the most important signing. I think those two (De Ligt and Neto) will have the maximum transformative effect on their teams. United want to move up from eighth to third or fourth, and Chelsea want to move up from fifth.
Six would be behind Kiernan Tierney.
Arteta would like Tierney to stay at the Emirates and sees him playing a vital role in his name challenge, despite the festival for a starting spot at left-back.
Tierney is said to be pushing to revive his career with a value pegged at around £25million. But according to Caught Offside, Celtic, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Girona, Sevilla and Valencia are interested.
Chelsea’s decision to get rid of several players before the transfer window closed was described as “crazy” by former Premier League defender Phil Jagielka.
“I think the way Chelsea are doing it is crazy,” Jagielka said on the Seaman Says podcast, sponsored through Betway. “Basically, if you don’t need you, then you can’t work out with the first team. “It happened with the rotten eggs in your dressing room, the ones you didn’t need there because they were causing the apple basket.
“Most of the other people who potentially want to leave have nine-year contracts, so that’s not going to happen. I don’t understand how they do it. Surely there will have to be a better way. “
Arteta admitted he failed under Smith Rowe after being saddened by his departure from Arsenal.
Smith Rowe joined Fulham on a £34m contract in early August after suffering during normal playing time at Arsenal. The 24-year-old had Arsenal enthusiasts in high regard after a decisive crusade in 2021/22 in which he scored 10 goals in the Premier League. Smith Rowe could not start, disappointed by injuries and the festival of squares.
And on his departure, Arteta said: “First of all because I have immense gratitude because he arrived at the team at a difficult time. I think he was the player who made our fans and the team fit in, in a way. No. ” I don’t know how to do it yet, that was my feeling. Something replaced when he arrived at the team. Without delay he created another energy.
“And I have a feeling like ‘argh’, that they haven’t given me the best of him. Obviously a lot happened in that time. For my part it was sad, because I know how the boys feel when they are in that building, how much everyone works to bring them closer to the first team, so I feel a huge duty to give them the opportunity. And now, will they be able to maintain this point and make us better?”
Pep Guardiola claims he violated his rules of movement to sign Ilkay Gundogan because he was so keen to see him back at Manchester City.
Gundogan turns 34 in October and Guardiola says it is his policy not to sign people who are too old. But fortunately he rejected that rule when he learned that Gundogan was looking to return to City, 14 months after leaving for free, because Barcelona were looking to remove him from their payroll.
“As a coach, I’m not a big fan of signing players of that age,” the City manager said. “But I know him well and his mentality is good. He is a great competitor and with Barcelona’s financial situation he returned for free.
“We talked about it and said, ‘Okay, we can do it. ‘ The negotiations between the clubs were none of my business and neither were the salaries. It happened and we had to try. Guardiola said yes when the two spoke about the issue. On the phone and after looking for a midfielder, he said Gundogan had the intelligence and ability to play various roles.
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