BBC
Manchester City want more than £20m for keeper Joe Hart, who is on loan at Torino, and will allow the 29-year-old to join one of their top-six rivals. (Times - subscription required)
Tottenham midfielder Moussa Sissoko, 27, could move to AC Milan in the summer, despite only joining Spurs five months ago for a club record £30m transfer fee. (Daily Mirror)
Spurs have joined Everton and Southampton in the race to sign Hull City defender Harry Maguire, 23. (Daily Star)
Arsenal plan to make a move for Napoli forward Lorenzo Insigne after having the 25-year-old watched by scouts. (Sun)
Chelsea and Manchester City both want Monaco midfielder Thomas Lemar, 21. (L'Equipe, via Talksport)
Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi, 29, could be set for a move to Real Madrid. (AS)
Tottenham expect Schalke to make 22-year-old midfielder Nabil Bentaleb's loan move to Germany permanent for a £16m fee in the summer. (Evening Standard)
Arsenal striker Lucas Perez does not want to leave, despite reports the 28-year-old was unhappy at a lack of playing time. (Daily Star)
Fellow Gunners forward Olivier Giroud, 30, is a target for Marseille. (Goal France, via Metro)
Monaco midfielder Fabinho, 23, is open to a move to the Premier League with his father saying the family have a "soft spot" for Manchester City. (Daily Mail)
Southampton's Cedric Soares, 25, is among the right-backs being watched by Barcelona. (Daily Telegraph)
West Ham plan to increase their offer for Saint-Etienne defender Kevin Malcuit to £10m after having two bids for him rejected in January. (Sun)
Galatasaray's Portuguese winger Bruma wants to join Manchester United, but the 22-year-old former Real Sociedad loanee is also keen on a return to La Liga. (Turkish-Football.com, via Daily Express)
Tottenham want 16-year-old Fulham left-back Ryan Sessegnon. (Daily Mail)
Liverpool and Manchester United both want Bordeaux forward Malcom, 19, but the teenager is interested in a move to Sevilla. (Goal - in Brazilian)
Former West Brom manager Alan Irvine is one of the name's in the frame for the managerial vacancy at Rangers. (Daily Express)
Monaco manager Leonardo Jardim is interested in managing in the Premier League. (Daily Mirror)
West Ham are targeting Real Sociedad striker Willian Jose, 25, who has scored nine goals in 20 La Liga appearances this season. (Calciomercato - in Italian)
Tottenham and Arsenal are both watching Toulouse defender Issa Diop, 20. (France Football - in French)
Hull City striker Abel Hernandez, 26, is a target for Chinese sides Beijing Guoan and Tianjin Quanjian. (Tutto Mercato - in Italian)
Leicester City and Crystal Palace are both interested in Juventus midfielder Mario Lemina, 23. (Gabon Review)
Channel 4 is exploring the possibility of buying one Champions League match per week in the auction for the rights of Europe's top competition. (Daily Telegraph)
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he does not know whether striker Wayne Rooney will be fit for the EFL Cup final. The 31-year-old has a muscle injury that will keep him out of Wednesday's Europa League match against Saint-Etienne. (Manchester United)
Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren, 27, has visited a specialist in Germany as he tries to overcome a knee injury. (Liverpool Echo)
Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen, 29, believes Spurs have enough depth to continue to challenge in the Premier league, FA Cup and Europa League. (Guardian)
And finally
Former Barcelona and Valencia striker David Villa was sent off in a pre-season friendly between New York City and Houston Dynamo on Saturday - for punching an opposition player in the face. (Daily Mirror)
Guardian Rumour Mill
For some reason the Mill can’t quite fathom Milan have the hots for Tottenham’s £30m record signing Moussa Sissoko, a player who has pulled off the incredible feat of remaining near-invisible throughout his 28 appearances this season. It’s been a while since the winger-cum-forward was last truly spotted making a fist of being a footballer, at the Euro 2016 final, when the his France team-mates seemingly mistook him for a latter day Michel Platini and gave him the ball at every opportunity. It’s a tactic
that worked well .
Meanwhile, Spurs like the cut of the Hull City defender Harry Maguire’s jib. The 23-year-old has been attracting the kind of lusty glances from Ronald Koeman that inevitably make the Everton manager’s rosy cheeks an even deeper shade of rouge – and Mauricio Pochettino wants to get in on the action. And Nabil Bentaleb is expected to make his £16m move from Spurs to Schalke a permanent one at the end of the season.
Manchester City are willing to listen to offers of around £20m for Joe Hart, who is doing a sterling job in goal while on loan at Torino. They will even let him go to a top-six Premier League club. They really ought to consider including themselves among his potential suitors. Whoever City have in goal next year, they may be done a big favour by not having Nicolás Otamendi in front of them charging out to the halfway line, missing the flight of the ball spinning on the spot and legging it back to the edge of the box to discover his side have gone a goal down. Apparently, Real Madrid want some of that excitement in their back line – if reports in Spain are to be believed that is.
It’s that time of year when Arsenal are linked with a Napoli forward. Step forward Lorenzo Insigne who, it says here, will slot right into the Olivier Giroud-shaped hole in the Arsenal squad when the France striker does one to Marseille at the end of the season. Oh, and Lucas Perez – remember him – is happy with his role as an ornament in the Arsenal dressing room and does not want to leave. Nope. He’s happy gathering dust.
Chelsea and Manchester City are donning their boxing gloves and preparing to get fisty over the services of Lemar, that’s 21-year-old Monaco string-puller Thomas Lemar, not the former reality TV crooner from Tottenham.
And Southampton’s Cedric Soares is a target for Barcelona, who could do with a half-decent defender or two these days.
Calciomercato
Liverpool go in pursuit of Spanish midfielder
According to reports from Sunsport, Liverpool have identified West Ham United midfielder Pedro Obiang as a primary summer transfer target. The journal claims the 24-year-old has been identified by boss Jurgen Klopp as one of the new pieces in his jigsaw as he looks to strengthen the Anfield club ahead of next season to mount a serious title challenge.
Obiang’s recent performances have been acknowledged as one of the main reasons for the Hammers’ upturn in form that has seen them pull away from the relegation dogfight at the foot of the Premier League.
Klopp has been alerted to the Spaniard’s impressive form and will now take time to consider when to make a move to try to claim his signature. West Ham of course, are now aware of the situation and are reportedly looking to try to tie the player to a new deal in East London. Obiang currently has two-years left on his current deal at the London Stadium.
The Sun believe that West Ham will need to receive a fee in the region of £18million if they are to be convinced to part with one of their prize possessions. It remains to be seen whether Liverpool will turn their interest into a concrete offer.
Sun
West Ham lining up £10m summer move for St Etienne defender Kevin Malcuit
Hammers to up their offer for Moroccan star after having two bids rejected last month
BY MARK IRWIN
WEST HAM are lining up a £10million summer move for St.Etienne defender Kevin Malcuit.
The 25-year-old can play at right-back, wing-back or in midfield
The Hammers offered £7m and £8.5m for the 25-year-old Moroccan international during last month’s transfer window.
Both bids were rejected by St Etienne but Hammers boss Slaven Bilic remains confident that an agreement can be reached in the summer.
The versatile Malcuit can play at right-back, wing-back or in midfield and is keen to test himself in the Premier League.
St Etienne paid just £700,000 to sign the former Monaco defender from lower-league Chamois Niortais in 2015.
But they are in no rush to sell and are holding out for at least £10million.
Malcuit’s borther, Samir, is also a professional footballer.
The 31-year-old elder sibling plays as striker for Omani club Dhofar.
Football London
Nathan Holland 'like a young Ryan Giggs' according to West Ham coach
He's one for the future
Just a month into his West Ham career, there is already a weight of expectations on young Nathan Holland's shoulders.
The 18-year-old winger joined the Hammers from Everton during the January transfer window and has wasted no time in impressing the powers that be at his new club.
The England U19 forward has scored three goals in three games for the Hammers' U23 side since coming to London, and Academy Director and Head of Coaching and Player Development Terry Westley has hailed Holland as being like a "young Ryan Giggs".
Speaking to the club's official website after their Premier League 2 win over Fulham on Monday night in which Holland scored the opening goal, Westley said:
"I'd probably say Nathan Holland [was brilliant], particularly in the first half. What a talent we've got on our hands.
"He was skipping past players, reminding me of a really young Ryan Giggs. I think he particularly caught people's eyes tonight."
