Paper Talk
Tottenham are set to step up their interest in Manchester United's Javier Hernandez as soon as Emmanuel Adebayor seals his move to Aston Villa.
Manchester United's Daley Blind has revealed he turned down an "incredible" Arsenal contract to stay at Ajax when he was 16.
Louis van Gaal has backed defender Luke Shaw to recover from his nightmare first season at Manchester United and prove his worth.
Tottenham will open talks with Everton over midfielder James McCarthy.
Arsene Wenger has slammed Jose Mourinho and denied he has become a "chequebook" manager.
Crystal Palace have slapped a £25m price tag on Yannick Bolasie.
Valencia are offering Alvaro Negredo to Premier League sides as they try and cut their losses on him.
Unsettled Newcastle skipper Fabricio Coloccini is a target for Olympiacos.
Swansea, Hull and Nottingham Forest are chasing £1m-rated Southend goalkeeper Daniel Bentley.
Angel Di Maria will fly to Paris later this week to complete his move from Manchester United to PSG.
Neymar is taking it easy in Ibiza as he gets ready to report back to Barcelona training on Thursday. The 23-year-old has been snapped with friends and family on a private yacht in the popular holiday resort ahead of a new La Liga season. He was given an extended break after playing in the Copa America.
Emmanuel Adebayor and Tim Sherwood will be reunited at Aston Villa.
Louis van Gaal predicts this will be a big season for defender Luke Shaw.
Angel Di Maria's £52m move from Manchester United to PSG is almost completed.
Baggies striker Saido Berahino is not ready to play for Tottenham, according to ex-West Brom boss Alan Irvine.
Villarreal want to sign Tottenham flop Roberto Soldado - but a deal is some way off.
Arsene Wenger has said he will not let Jose Mourinho dictate Arsenal's transfer policy.
Adnan Januzaj faces a make-or-break- season at Manchester United.
Chelsea are keen to sign Galatasaray defender Alex Telles.
Newcastle's Adam Armstrong is off to Coventry on a six-month loan.
West Brom are closing in on Hull defender James Chester.
Chris Long has joined Burnley in a £1.5m deal.
Southampton's Europa League opponents had their plans thrown into chaos after eight Vitesse Arnhem players were stopped from entering the country.
Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe is on the verge of making St Etienne wide-man Max Gradel his seventh summer signing.
Arsene Wenger has told Jose Mourinho to mind his own business.
Swansea are adamant that Ashley Williams is going nowhere as Crystal Palace have been told not to bother with a £10m bid.
Kevin De Bruyne will have to hand in a transfer request at Wolfsburg if he wants to secure a move to Manchester City.
Emmanuel Adebayor will have a medical at Aston Villa today ahead of a loan switch from Tottenham.
Luke Shaw has been backed to prove he is not a Manchester United flop.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea target Gonzalo Higuain is 'untouchable' claims team-mate Manolo Gabbiadini with reports suggesting their star midfielder is on the verge of signing a new deal at Napoli.
Ajax manager Frank De Boer says Jasper Cillessen will not be moving to Manchester United.
Dimitar Berbatov is on the brink of joining Aston Villa.
West Brom insist Tottenham have not made a bid for striker Saido Berahino.
West Ham are preparing a £12m move for Fenerbahce striker Moussa Sow.
Norwich have agreed a loan deal for Liverpool defender Andre Wisdom.
Newcastle skipper Fabricio Coloccini is a target for Olympiacos.
"I will always love Arsenal", claims Cesc Fabregas. The Chelsea midfielder is preparing for a hostile reaction from Gunners fans when the two sides play in the Community Shield on Sunday.
Harry Redknapp is missing coaching, but has no plans to get involved at newly-promoted Bournemouth.
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has sent Arsenal fans into a frenzy after posting a cryptic Instagram message suggesting he was leaving Real. He then followed an account called Wengerland.
Barcelona winger Pedro is keen on a switch to Manchester United according to Spanish publication Marca.
Sampdoria are willing to offer Mario Balotelli a way out of Liverpool.
Tottenham are expected to step up their interest in Javier Hernandez.
Leicester have attempted to hijack West Brom's £8m move for Hull defender James Chester.
Newcastle's bid for M'Baye Niang has been rejected by AC Milan.
Aston Villa defender Nathan Baker is expected to join Burnley for £2m.
Arsenal forward Joel Campbell is in talks to join Palermo on loan.
BBC
Paris St-Germain have bid £28.5m for Manchester United's 27-year-old Argentina winger Angel Di Maria, who signed for the Old Trafford club for £59.7m last summer. (Guardian)
Chelsea are targeting Galatasaray's 22-year-old Brazilian defender Alex Telles as a replacement for Filipe Luis, 29, who has left to re-join Atletico Madrid. (Sun - subscription required)
Tottenham will try to sign Manchester United winger Ashley Young, 30, after being put off by Crystal Palace's £25m asking price for DR Congo midfielder Yannick Bolasie, 26. (Daily Mirror)
Manchester United feel betrayed by Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos, who was one of their top transfer targets, with the 29-year-old Spain international set to sign a new contract with the La Liga club. (Daily Star)
And United will not be bidding for Valencia's 27-year-old defender Nicolas Otamendi this summer, despite being repeatedly linked with the Argentina international. (Manchester Evening News)
Sampdoria president Massimo Ferrero thinks Liverpool's £7.1m valuation of striker Mario Balotelli is too high and wants it lowered if the Italian club are to sign the 24-year-old. (Daily Mail)
Newcastle have had a £4.8m bid for AC Milan's 20-year-old French striker M'Baye Niang turned down by the Italian club. (Evening Chronicle, via Calcio Mercato)
Crystal Palace have shown late interest in signing Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor from Spurs but the 31-year-old will instead join Aston Villa on a season-long loan deal. (Telegraph)
Villa are also discussing personal terms with former Tottenham, Manchester United and Fulham striker Dimitar Berbatov. The 34-year-old Bulgarian is available on a free transfer after leaving Monaco. (Daily Express)
Nantes midfielder Jordan Veretout is also among Villa's targets, although Premier League rivals Leicester are also keen on the 22-year-old Frenchman. (Birmingham Mail)
Bournemouth are close to signing Ivory Coast winger Max Gradel from French club St Etienne and the fee for the 27-year-old could rise to £7m. (Daily Star)
Everton's Republic of Ireland midfielder James McCarthy, 24, is disillusioned at Goodison Park and will open talks with Tottenham about a move to White Hart Lane. (Daily Mirror)
West Ham are lining up a £12m move for 29-year-old Fenerbahce striker Moussa Sow, but the Senegal international is also a target for Sunderland. (Daily Express)
Chelsea's Egypt midfielder Mohamed Salah, 23, is set to complete a loan move to Italian side Roma. (Daily Mail)
Tottenham and Romania central defender Vlad Chiriches, 25, is close to completing a £4.5m move to Italian side Napoli. (Telegraph)
Inter Milan and FC Porto are both interested in signing Spurs' 23-year-old forward Erik Lamela, with a season-long loan deal possible for the Argentina international. (Talksport, via Record)
And Villarreal's manager, Marcelino, would like to bring Tottenham's Spain striker Roberto Soldado, 30, back to La Liga. (Espn, via Marca)
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says this could be "the season of Luke Shaw". The Dutchman has been impressed by his 20-year-old England left-back's performances in a pre-season tour of the United States. (Guardian)
Chelsea goalkeeping coach Christophe Lollichon may follow Petr Cech to Arsenal. The Gunners signed 33-year-old Czech Republic goalkeeper Cech, who has worked with Lollichon for over a decade, in a £10m deal earlier this summer. (Times - subscription required)
Norwich City are close to signing Liverpool defender Andre Wisdom, 22, on a season-long loan deal. (Liverpool Echo)
Best of social media
An Instagram post by Real Madrid's Karim Benzema led to many Arsenal fans jumping to the hopeful conclusion that the France striker is set to sign for the north London club. The 27-year-old uploaded a photo of himself on a plane with the hashtag "directionturfu" - French slang for "direction: future".
Meanwhile, the Gunners' 26-year-old Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil was seemingly in the mood for some deep thinking on Tuesday evening, tweeting: "If you want, you can overcome all: pressure, expectations, gravity." Perhaps physics is not his strongest subject?
And following reports Tottenham were getting ready to offer £15m for West Brom striker Saido Berahino, the 21-year-old's club denied they had received any bid, tweeting: "OK, this is getting silly now. So let us make it clear. There has been NO bid for Saido. That's it. Carry on everyone."
And finally
The mascots who were supposed to stand in front of Real Madrid players Isco and Toni Kroos before the pre-season friendly against Inter Milan in China ditched their roles to join Cristiano Ronaldo instead as the teams lined up. (Metro)
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho showed his penchant for a practical joke when he gathered his backroom team for what they thought was a photo opportunity but instead had freezing water thrown over them. (Evening Standard)
A team-mate of Steven Gerrard's at Los Angeles Galaxy says "you have to be extra careful when you listen to Stevie" because of the former Liverpool captain's Scouse accent. (Sun - subscription required)
Guardian Rumour Mill
Scott Murray
Emmanuel Adebayor wants a loan move to Aston Villa, where he will reunite with manager Tim Sherwood. The pair will then become the subject of a patronising internet pile-on, despite Adebayor having scored for fun under Sherwood at Spurs, because they once celebrated a goal rather sweetly by saluting each other, and because Sherwood has never once pandered to the self-appointed cognoscenti by pretending to be the second coming of Gusztav Sebes.
Villa aren’t stopping there in their pursuit of slightly flaky but highly intriguing box-office talent. They also want existentialism’s Dimitar Berbatov, a free agent in many senses. Suddenly the Paul Lambert era seems light years away.
Tottenham Hotspur, their clothes having thus been stolen, have decided to go down a more solid, dependable, pragmatic route. The once-sassy Spurs will replace Adebayor with Manchester United’s Javier Hernández. They also want United winger Ashley Young and Everton midfielder James McCarthy. Érik Lamela is off to Internazionale, while Roberto Soldado is a target for Villarreal. At this rate, Spurs might start regularly winning stuff. Worlds are colliding, it’s all turning upside down.
Sampdoria want Mario Balotelli but only if Liverpool drop their £7.10 valuation. Subs, please check, but we’re pretty sure that’s all fine.
Ángel Di María is the new Raheem Sterling, in so much as the very mention of his name on these pages triggers ennui in some, narcolepsy in others. He’ll be off to Paris St Germain for the best part of £30m, and not a moment too soon. Though chances are we’ll begin to look back fondly on the saga when the Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale rumours start up in its wake.
Manchester United, in lieu of breaking the world transfer record for either of those two, were hoping to maintain their levels of superstardom with Sergio Ramos. But turns out he’s been stringing them along and will sign a new contract with Real Madrid.
Saint-Étienne winger Max Gradel is on his way to Bournemouth. The deal will give his former club Leeds United a massive “six-figure cash windfall”, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post. The mighty Leeds United reduced to relying on handouts as a result of Bournemouth’s largesse! It’s not 1974 any more, things change and evolve, we accept this as a fact of life. But even so.
That’s the first mention of Leeds in the Rumour Mill since 2001, maybe, perhaps. Chelsea have been nearly as quiet of late, but now it seems they’re after Galatasaray defender Alex Telles. Yes, it’s hard to shake off the suspicion that José’s got something big up his sleeve, isn’t it?
Mail
Norwich 0-1 West Ham: Hammers leave it late to grab pre-season win at Carrow Road
West Ham earned victory against Norwich at Carrow Road with a late goal
They had Harry Toffolo to thank as he deflected the ball into his own net
The dangerous Dimitri Payet played the ball in for Toffolo's mishap
Tuesday's game marked 80 years since both sides first met at Carrow Road
By Daniel Prescott
Harry Toffolo's late second-half own-goal was enough to hand West Ham the win against Norwich in a special friendly arranged to mark 80 years of football at Carrow Road.
Both sides went head-to-head in the first match at the stadium in 1935 with Norwich winning that match 4-3.
But it was Slaven Bilic's outfit that came out triumphant this time round as the lively Dimitri Payet saw his late cross deflect of Toffolo and into the net with less than 10 minutes to play.
West Ham duo Cheikhou Kouyate and Reece Oxford celebrate their late winner at Carrow Road on Tuesday
West Ham midfielder Mark Noble battles for the ball with Norwich ace Vadis Odjidja Ofoe during pre-season
Canadian defender Doneil Henry challenges for the ball alongside Norwich's Ofoe at Carrow Road
That one goal proved enough for the win as Norwich wasted several chances on the night with Ricky van Wolfswinkel at fault numerous times.
West Ham almost found the net inside 30 seconds as midfielder Morgan Amalfitano took aim from miles out with John Ruddy in full stretch and beaten.
Fortunately for Ruddy the ball crashed back off the stanchion and behind for a Norwich goal-kick.
Down the other end the majority of Norwich’s chances were falling to the feet of striker Van Wolfswinkel but he struggled to find his aim.
On the stroke of half time the Dutch striker found himself with another chance to grab the hosts lead but he was denied this time by the stretch of West Ham goalkeeper Adrian.
Bilic’s side did their best to make Norwich pay for their poor shot conversion when Kevin Nolan released Matt Jarvis down the wing.
The former Wolves and Gillingham player saw his shot blocked by Ruddy and Jarvis then hit the rebounding ball over the bar.
But West Ham were not to be denied and they got their winner, albeit in fortunate style, with 82 minutes of the game gone as Toffolo put the ball into his own net.
Kevin Nolan takes a tumble as he is tackled by Norwich player Alexander Tettey at Carrow Road
West Ham striker Diafra Sakho jumps highest as he looks to win the ball under the challenge of Harry Toffolo
MATCH FACTS
NORWICH: Ruddy, E Bennett, R Bennett, Turner, Toffolo; Tettey (Howson 46), O'Neil (c), Odjidja Ofoe, Hooper (Murphy 78), Andreu, van Wolfswinkel
SUBS: Rudd, Loza, Redmond, Jacob Murphy, Hall-Johnson, McGrandles
WEST HAM: Adrian, Burke (Jenkinson 60), Tomkins, Henry (Ogbonna 60), Page (Cresswell 60), Poyet (Noble 60), Nolan (Kouyate 60), Amalfitano (Oxford 60), Maiga (Valencia 60), Jarvis (Zarate 60), Sakho (Payet 60)
SUBS: Spiegel, Samuelsen
Goal: Toffolo OG. 82
London24
West Ham chief provides double injury update ahead of Hammers’ Europa League clash
Jack Green
West Ham co-owner David Gold has revealed that two Hammers stars will miss Thursday night’s game against Astra Giurgiu.
Both players have been struggling with injuries in the pre-season and will not feature in the first leg of the club’s Europa League Third Qualifying Round tie. Obiang was West Ham’s first major signing of the summer as he moved to Upton Park from Sampdoria early in the transfer window.
The Spanish midfielder made his first appearance for the Hammers in a friendly against Peterborough but has not been match fit since then.
Gold has revealed that the 23-year-old will be back in training next week. Defender Reid will also not be available to face Astra. The New Zealand international is recovering from a minor injury and he will be held out of action until he returns to full fitness.
Express
West Ham eye sensational £12m swoop for Senegal and Fenerbahce striker Moussa Sow
By Tony Banks
Moussa Sow could leave Turkey to join West Ham
The Senegalese forward, who has scored 51 goals in 102 appearances for the Turkish club, has emerged as the frontman new Hammers manager Slaven Bilic wants to strengthen his side for the coming season.
The 29-year-old, who is also being chased by Sunderland, scored 25 goals as Lille won the title in 2011.
Sow still has a year left on his contract at Fenerbahce, but the arrival of Dutch star Robin Van Persie from Manchester United has put his place under threat.
Bilic is still interested in Everton forward Kevin Mirallas, but the £9.5m fee placed on the Belgian is proving a problem, and the Hammers have yet to improve on their opening £7m offer.
