Transfer Rumour Gossip: Man United Want £55m Pair, Arsenal Playmaker Linked With £30m Nou Camp Switch, Blues Plot La Liga Raid

Friday’s transfer rumour roundup. 

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Manchester United are still set to push ahead with plans to sign the Southampton duo of Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana at the end of the season for a combined fee of £55m.

Full story: The Daily Mail

La Liga champions FC Barcelona want to sign Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil for just £30m this summer.

Full story: talkSPORT.co.uk

Everton manager Roberto Martinez hopes to lure unsettled Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley to Goodison Park as an eventual successor to Leon Osman.

Full story: The Daily Star

Arsenal right-back Bacary Sagna is leaving the north London club when his contract runs out at the end of June, with the France international planning on joining either Manchester United or Manchester City.

Full story: The Daily Star

Veteran Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard will put pen to paper on a new one-year contract at Stamford Bridge within the next 10 days.

Full story: The Daily Express 

In-demand Southampton centre-back Morgan Schneiderlin says that he has no intention whatsoever of trying to engineer a move away from St Mary’s this summer to join either Manchester United or Arsenal.

Full story: The Daily Mirror

Napoli defender Pablo Armero is keen to remain with West Ham United next season after joining the Hammers on a six-month loan deal from the Southern Italian outfit at the turn of the year.

Full story: talkSPORT.co.uk

FC Barcelona forward Gerard Deulofeu may now stay at Goodison Park next campaign after the young Spaniard impressed during his season-long loan spell with the Toffees.

Full story: The Metro

Newcastle United are pondering making a move for £5m-rated AS Monaco front man Emmanuel Riviere this summer.

Full story: The Daily Express

Chelsea will hand full-back Cesar Azpilicueta a new deal on improved wages of £70,000 per week to reward the Spaniard for his consistent form at the back this season.

Full story: The Daily Mail 

Chelsea want to sign Sevilla left-back Alberto Moreno to replace the departing Ashley Cole at Stamford Bridge next season.

Full story: The Daily Express

Recently sacked Manchester United boss David Moyes is actually set to receive as much as £7m in compensation from the Premier League champions.

Full story: The Daily Mail

Moyes is said to have felt his predecessor at Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson, did not offer him enough support during the final months of his ill-fated reign in the north west.

Full story: The Daily Mirror

Ferguson, though, has told a charity lunch that he was deeply unsatisfied with the way in which Moyes’s dismissal was handled by United.

Full story: The Daily Mail

Interim United boss Ryan Giggs had his first training session in charge of the Red Devils interrupted by a phone call from his old boss Fergie wishing the Welshman good luck in his new role.

Full story: The Daily Mirror 

Juventus manager Antonio Conte has now emerged as a contender to be the next Manchester United boss.

Full story: The Daily Telegraph

Highly rated Everton coach Roberto Martinez has ruled out taking over from Moyes at Old Trafford this summer.

Full story: The Daily Express

Manchester United’s under-performing players are set to receive some harsh words of criticism from the club’s American owners when the Glazer family arrive in the UK on Friday to begin the search for a new manager.

Full story: The Daily Star

Spurs players are considering refusing to shake Stoke City midfielder Charlie Adam’s hand before the two teams’ Premier League meeting this weekend after the Scot left Paulinho out of action for a month the last time the two teams met before Christmas.

Full story: The Daily Mirror

Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert insists that he will not crack under the pressure he finds himself under at the moment with the west Midlands strugglers in a relegation dogfight.

Full story: The Birmingham Mail 

Liverpool have been transformed from being “seconds from financial disaster” to top of the Premier League in the space of just four years, according to the club’s managing director Ian Ayre.

Full story: The Daily Telegraph

Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski claims that he could be interested in a move back to former club Cologne next season.

Full story: The Daily Mirror

Chelsea captain John Terry is now set to be available to feature for the west London club in the second leg of their Uefa Champions League semi-final with Atletico Madrid at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night.

Full story: The Daily Mirror

Chelsea keeper  Thibaut Courtois is set to return to Stamford Bridge this summer to start next season as the Blues’ new No 1, with current first-choice shot-stopper Petr Cech not likely to be back in action for another three months due to the shoulder injury he sustained against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night in the Champions League semi-finals.

Full story: The London Evening Standard

The departure of David Moyes as manager of Manchester United earlier this week has now convinced a number if Red Devils stars who were previously considering quitting Old Trafford this summer to now stay with the Premier League champions instead.

Full story: The Daily Mirror

 

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