ANGLIA
Manchester City: Brighton are refusing to budge on a £50m-plus price tag for Spain left-back Marc Cucurella, they said after rejecting a “ridiculous” £30m offer from City. (The Athletic)
Liverpool: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has ruled out making any further signings unless there are injuries to his squad or the club sell players. (Sky Sports)
Chelsea: Timo Werner is likely to leave Chelsea in the summer as the 26-year-old forward looks to get more playing time to secure his place in Germany’s World Cup squad. (Sky Sports)
Manchester United: According to the Mirror, the Ronaldo case can be resolved by MU loaning the Portuguese forward for next season, but also extending it by one year so that the player can return to Manchester next summer and the parties have another big shot together – the idea of the Manchester people according to, of course, mainly in the Champions League. In recent days, Ronaldo has been mainly linked with Atlético Madrid.
Arsenal: Although they have not been idle in the transfer market so far, they still want to complete a transfer and would sign the 25-year-old Belgian midfielder Youri Tielemans from Leicester.
SPAIN
Real Madrid: Brazilian defender Éder Militao signs a contract with the Royals until 2028. (Brand) “The team can be considered final for the season. We are happy, because we were better than last year” – revealed head coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Barcelona: “I hope that the story of Barca and Leo Messi is not over yet. The question remains open, and it is our responsibility to make the story end better than it was.” said President Joan Laporta. (ESPN) It is conceivable that Barca’s head coach, Xavi Hernández, is counting on Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong as a center back in the future, who does not really want to leave the Catalans, even though his sale could significantly alleviate his club’s financial problems. (DIG)
Atletico Madrid: The club would even “sacrifice” the French Antoine Griezmann in order to get Cristiano Ronaldo, which they have a good chance of doing. (Brand)
ITALY
AC Milan: They have been trying to get the playing rights of Club Brugge’s attacking midfielder Charles de Ketelaere for a long time – so far unsuccessfully – but the Milanese are slowly getting tired of the rejections. If no agreement is reached regarding the player by Monday, the club will target other football players. (Corriere dello Sport)
International: If they do not sell their Slovakian defender Milan Skriniar in the summer, the blue and black club is willing to offer the player a new contract. (Football Italy)
Juventus: The club would like Massimiliano Allegri to have as many variations as possible in the midfield, so they would acquire Leandro Paredes from PSG, but the 30 million euros requested by the Parisians are too much for Turin, so further negotiations are still necessary. (Football Italy)
AS Roma: José Mourinho would also sign his former player, Manchester United’s 28-year-old Ivorian defender. (Mirror) According to calculations by Corriere dello Sport, Paulo Dybala has broken Cristiano Ronaldo’s record for the number of shirts sold in one day. There is a frenzy in Rome over the signing of the Argentine, and more Dybala shirts were sold in the first day after the announcement than when CR7 moved from Real Madrid to Juventus.
Napoli: They also said goodbye to Dries Mertens in a video, whose departure has become official. The Belgian player says goodbye to Naples after nine years.
Thank you @dries_mertens14 💙 pic.twitter.com/lpWpntpLJX
— Official SSC Napoli (@sscnapoli) July 24, 2022
Sassuolo: The club’s CEO, Giovanni Carnevali, has admitted that Gianluca Scamacca will be sold: – We have agreed with West Ham, which pays 36 million euros, this can increase by another 6 million, and we also get 10 percent from the resale. (Corriere dello Sport)
As: Cesc Fábregas is close to signing for the Italian second-tier team, reports Marca.
GERMANY
Bayern Munich: Julian Nagelsmann has acknowledged the signing of 17-year-old Rennes striker Mathys Tel, for whom they will pay 20 million euros (plus another 8.5 if various conditions are met). The Bayern boss has blown the fuse at Tottenham after lavishing praise on Harry Kane, who is reportedly wanted at Bayern. (Brand)
According to world champion Thomas Müller, it is possible that the departure of Robert Lewandowski will cause Bayern Munich’s football team to score fewer goals next season than before, but this does not mean that it will be less successful. “Our current situation reminds us of the 2012-2013 season, when we felt invincible” – said Müller, who has served the club for 22 years now. In the season he mentioned, Bayern also won the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup.
The experienced footballer said that the current transfer period is an “exclamation point” for the people of Munich, because although the Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who was recently chosen as the best player of the year by the international association, left for FC Barcelona, Sadio Mané, Matthijs de Ligt, Ryan Gravenberch, Nussair Mazraui and Mathys Tel. The club has so far spent 148 million euros on new football players this summer.
Müller said: he expects a well-oiled game from the team, and that they win the Bundesliga for the 11th time in a row, as well as “leave a mark” in the BL, but he has not yet quantified the latter.
Bayern CEO Oliver Kahn called the next season the most difficult ever, as the World Cup in November and December will put the club series on hold for weeks. He added: the competitive situation within the squad is as significant as possible and all players are maximally motivated. Kahn is convinced that the blood renewal will pay off, as every player already wants to prove to the coach that he deserves to be in the starting line-up.
The German team lost their last warm-up match 1-0 against Manchester City in Green Bay, United States. Erling Haaland scored the only goal of the meeting, which was interrupted for more than an hour due to a fierce thunderstorm. Next Saturday, Bayern will start the new season with a German Super Cup match against RB Leipzig, which employs three Hungarians. In the first round of the German Cup, their opponent will be the third division Viktoria Köln. In the 1st round of the Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt will be the opponent of Munich on August 5. (MTI)
RB Leipzig: The negotiations between the club and PSG will soon end, as they have already agreed on almost everything about the 24-year-old French defender Nordi Mukiele’s change of club. The Leipzig football player can thus move to Paris. (Fabrizio Romano)
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