Transfer and rumours

 

Barcelona are working to shield their youth. Héctor Fort, Pau Cubarsí and Marc Bernal are the three players who are close to signing their renewal with Barça.

All parties assure that the process of Hector Fort’s renewal will be the same as Kochen’s, so his renewal is about to be closed.

Pablo Torre, Eric García and Oriol Romeu could make the possible deal to sign Aleix García cheaper. Girona are more than interested in extending the stay of the two Barça loanees and they already wanted Romeu back in January.

Napoli president de Laurentiis on new deal for Kvaratskhelia: “We met with his agents three months ago, I offered to extend the contract”.

“The answer from his camp was: don’t worry, we’re happy here — let’s speak at the end of the season”.

Trabzonspor confirm Thomas Meunier deal — joining the club from Borussia Dortmund as revealed.

Jesse Lingard has just signed in as new FC Seoul player. Deal confirmed, set to be announced soon.

Medical tests completed yesterday, now all documents signed and time to unveil former Manchester United player as new signing.

Ghanaian born footballer Ibrahim Osman will sign contract as new Brighton player in the next hours. He was really close to West Ham move, now set to join Brighton Hove Albion in July. Details to follow.

Understand Nordsjælland will receive €19.5m fixed fee plus €3m add-ons.

Deal will also include 10% sell-on clause.

Contract will be valid until June 2029.

Brentford manager Thomas Frank: “Ivan Toney will most likely be sold in the summer”.

“He’ll only have a year left on contract with us, so it’s quite obvious”.

“This winter, we actually had NO bids for him”, told Tipsbladet.

The option to extend Jorginho’s contract for one more year is still valid and it will be available until the end of the season for Arsenal.

Mikel Arteta, really happy with his performances.

One more goal, one more excellent game for Jonathan Tah for Bayer Leverkusen as he’s performing at top level under Xabi Alonso this season.

One to watch in the summer as current contract is due to expire in June 2025, just one year left.

Leuven are very happy with Oscar Garcia as they’re unbeaten in Pro League in 2024 under the Spanish head coach.

8 points in 4 games, with former Brighton, Reims, Celta Vigo and RB Salzburg manager who led the team out of the relegation zone.

Serhou Guirassy’s release clause will be valid again in the summer for the same amount — €17.5m.

After many possibilities in January and final decision to stay at Stuttgart, bids expected to come in again in July. Premier League clubs, already showing interest.

Inter are closing in on verbal agreement with Piotr Zielinski to join as free agent from July 1.

Contract almost ready, final details being sorted. Inter hope to get documents signed this month. Same for Mehdi Taremi, almost done — as revealed.

Arsenal are still in negotiations to get new deal done for English 2005 born talent Amario Cozier-Duberry. Talks ongoing.

Borussia Dortmund, Ajax, Anderlecht, Wolves and Newcastle are showing interest for free transfer in June — in case talks with Arsenal FC collapse.

Tottenham commercial chief officer Todd Kline will sign soon for Chelsea, it’s all done — as revealed yesterday.

Kline, on gardening leave at Tottenham Hotspur and ready for new role at Chelsea.

Breaking: Chelsea are not planning yet another mid-season managerial change, but Mauricio Pochettino is under pressure to improve the club’s form and results between now and the end of the season.

Some of the new Chelsea arrivals have privately expressed regret at the long-term contracts they have signed and do not see the grand project that was sold to them in the first place.

There is a view within Chelsea that the current first-team group is high on entitlement and low on hunger in some quarters.