New Year’s Day’s transfer rumour roundup.
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France international front man Loic Remy has warned the north-east giants that he may leave St James’ Park next summer if the Magpies do not manage to qualify for next season’s Uefa Champions League by finishing in the top four of the Premier League this campaign.
Full story: The Metro
Mega-rich Premier League side Manchester City could miss out on signing exciting young Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho in the winter transfer window, with the player of the recent Fifa Under-17 World Cup also being chased by Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon.
Full story: talkSPORT
Premier League strugglers West Ham United will face a fight to land Atletico de Madrid striker Leo Baptistao on loan in the January transfer window even though the 21-year-old Brazilian has been told he can leave the Vincente Calderon this month.
Full story: talkSPORT
Relegation-threatened east London outfit West Ham are the shock favourites to sign Southampton’s England international forward Rickie Lambert for a fee of £8 million in January.
Full story: The Daily Mirror
Veteran Chelsea midfield player Micheal Essien is set to leave Stamford Bridge this month, with the Ghana international’s agent revealing that his client already has a number of offers on the table from clubs on the Continent still competing in this season’s Uefa Champions League.
Full story: The London Evening Standard
Arsenal head coach Arsene Wenger has confirmed that the Premier League leaders may now be forced to enter the winter transfer market this month after the north London club’s only out-and-out centre-forward Olivier Giroud picked up an ankle injury against Newcastle United at St James’ Park on Sunday.
Full story: The Metro
Merseyside giants Liverpool have not agreed a £7m deal to sign FC Basel wide man Mohamed Salah as has previously been reported in various media outlets, with the Reds said to still be in discussions with the Swiss champions about signing the in-demand 21-year-old this month.
Full story: The Liverpool Echo
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce wants to land out-of-favour Everton defender John Heitinga by the end of the week, with the Hammers seeing the experienced Netherlands international as being the answer to the struggling east London club’s current defensive woes.
Full story: Sky Sports
Turkish giants Besiktas are interested in signing unused Manchester City centre-back Joleon Lescott in the winter transfer window, however, the occasional England international would prefer to join a Premier League club instead.
Full story: The Daily Mail
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is keen to land Udinese’s £7m-rated midfield player Agyemang-Badu in this month’s transfer window.
Full story: The Daily Star
Fulham coach Rene Meulensteen is interested in signing Sporting Lisbon winger Zakaria Labyad in January, however, the struggling west Londoners also face competition for the 20-year-old’s signature from Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven.
Full story: talkSPORT
Liverpool head coach Brendan Rodgers has first refusal on highly rated young Derby County midfield player Will Hughes after the Reds agreed to continue England Under-21 international Andre Wisdom’s loan spell at Pride Park into the second half of this campaign, with the Rodgers also removing a clause in the deal giving the Merseysiders the right to recall the promising right back before the end of this season.
Full story: The Daily Mirror
Tottenham Hotspur have told Serie A duo Inter Milan and Juventus that forward Erik Lamela is not for sale during the winter transfer window, despite the Argentina international having failed to settle in north London so far following the 21-year-old’s club-record £30m move to White Hart Lane from AS Roma last summer.
Full story: The Daily Mail
Premier League new boys Hull City are planning a £1m bid to sign Glasgow Celtic attacker Georgios Samaras in the January transfer window.
Full story: The Daily Telegraph
Everton have warned Premier League champions Manchester United that they will need to fork out a whopping £25m in order to sign coveted left-back Leighton Baines this month.
Full story: Goal.com
Relegation threatened Premier League side Cardiff City are said to still be confident of appointing highly rated young Molde manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to replace the recently sacked Malky Mackay in the Bluebirds hot seat, despite recent reports suggesting that the Norwegian had turned down the chance to coach the South Wales outfit.
Full story: The Guardian
Liverpool will have to go head to head with city-rivals Everton in the race to land out-of-favour Chelsea left-back Ryan Bertrand in the January transfer window.
Full story: The Daily Mirror
Premier League champions Manchester United are set to loan unused wide man Wilfried Zaha back to former club Crystal Palace in the winter transfer window, with the exciting England international in line to re-join the struggling south-east London outfit on a six-month loan deal.
Full story: The Daily Mirror
Chelsea have finally completed the signing of 18-year-old Burkina Faso midfield player Bertrand Traore.
Full story: The Daily Mirror