BBC
Manchester United will make one final £60m offer to Real Madrid for striker Alvaro Morata, 24. Real are thought to want £78m but have decided against making United keeper David de Gea part of the deal. (Daily Mirror)
The Red Devils have had a £52.4m bid for Spain frontman Morata rejected by the Champions League winners. (Sky Sports)
De Gea, 26, will stay at United this summer after Real decided they will keep Keylor Navas and Kiko Casilla as their two keepers next season.(Marca)
United boss Jose Mourinho must activate the £87m release clause if he wants to sign Torino striker Andrea Belotti, 23, who scored 28 goals last season.(Manchester Evening News)
Arsenal have made a bid for Real Madrid's Colombia attacking midfielder James Rodriguez, 25, but it is thought to be below the Spanish club's valuation of £69.8m. (El Chiringuito, via Daily Express)
Southampton manager Claude Puel is likely to be sacked but a decision will not be made until the club complete their search for a potential successor. (Telegraph)
Chelsea will offer £48m plus midfielder Nemanja Matic, 28, to sign 30-year-old Juventus centre-back Leonardo Bonucci. (Sun)
The Premier League champions will offer Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, 24, a wage of more than £150,000 a week to secure an £80m return to Stamford Bridge. (Evening Standard)
Tottenham are keen to sign Borussia Dortmund defender Matthias Ginter, 23, who would be available for around £15m. (Independent)
Monaco striker Kylian Mbappe, 18, will reject moves away from the club this summer and sign a new contract with the Ligue 1 champions. (Le Parisien - in French)
Real Madrid are reportedly prepared to sell former Tottenham winger Gareth Bale, 27, to pursue Mbappe. (Don Balon, via Daily Star)
Barcelona have made Arsenal full-back Hector Bellerin, 22, their number one transfer target this summer and are preparing to make a £40m move. (Mirror)
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney, 31, has indicated he is not prepared to take a drop in salary to remain in England. (Daily Express)
Crystal Palace, West Brom, Brighton and Birmingham City are all interested in signing full-back Ferland Mendy from Le Havre. The 21-year-old is valued at £7m and has one year remaining on his contract. (Sky Sports)
Manchester City are ready to sell Fabian Delph this summer but want about £12m for the 27-year-old England midfielder. (Daily Telegraph)
West Brom are considering a move for Hull midfielder Tom Huddlestone, 30, who has a £2m release clause in his contract following relegation. (Sun)
And finally
A petition has been launched by a Newcastle United fan calling for the club to retire the number 24 shirt after the death of former midfielder Cheick Tiote. (Change.Org)
Guardian Rumour Mill
Scott Murray
Wayne Rooney is on his way back to Everton. It’s the most romantic of stories, setting aside the bit about him swanning off for the more showy club down the road at the first opportunity, spending his golden years with them, and only coming back when said club don’t want him any more now he’s going bald and slowing up. Everton also might not be able to stump up the cash for the wages Rooney is demanding to return. It’s not exactly Mills & Boon, is it, never mind Jane Austen.
Manchester United will replace their outgoing record goalscorer with fresh meat in the shape of Torino striker Andrea Belotti and Real Madrid’s Alvaro Morata. They’ll table £87m for the former, £60m for the latter, though Real want another £20m on top of that. Some good news for United, though: superstar junkies Real aren’t that interested in spending huge sums on David de Gea any more, presumably working on the logic that everyone remembers Puskás, Gento and Di Stéfano, but who can name Rogelio Domínguez these days?
Chelsea, snubbed by Virgil van Dijk in favour of Liverpool, have just about stopped laughing very hard about Liverpool snubbing Van Dijk, and slapped a cash plus Nemanja Matic offer on the Juventus boardroom table. They want Leonardo Bonucci in return.
They’re also dangling a £150,000-a-week carrot in front of Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, with the big man reported as being very interested. No huge dissimilarities between this and the Van Dijk affair, really, when you boil the bones down, other than the small fact Chelsea haven’t started needlessly banging on about it yet.
Oh Liverpool!
Speaking of clubs going about their business in a cack-handed manner, Arsenal have made a bid for James Rodríguez. Real Madrid want £68.9m, so the Gunners have reportedly and pointedly offered an unspecified sum below that. Given their recent track record of being awkward just for the sake of it, £68,899,999 is the ballpark figure we’re guessing. Does bidding low ever bear fruit?
Tottenham Hotspur want £15m Borussia Dortmund defender Matthias Ginter. Speaking of BVB, those famous developers of hungry young talent ... this thing about buying Mario Balotelli ... erm ... y’what?
Finally, some assorted other news. West Bromwich Albion are interested in Hull midfielder Tom Huddlestone and Le Havre full-back Ferland Mendy. Crystal Palace, Brighton & Hove Albion and Birmingham City are also looking at the latter. Fabian Delph wants out of Manchester City. Barcelona are preparing a £40m swoop for Arsenal defender Héctor Bellerín. And it’s only a matter of time before Southampton sack their manager Claude Puel, who five months ago led the club to their first major final in 14 years. Yep, romance is dead all right.
Turkish Football
Arsenal, Tottenham & West Ham in three way battle for £13m star midfielder
By Emre Sarigul
Arsenal, Tottenham & West Ham in three way battle for £13m star midfielder Oguzhan Ozyakup
West Ham have joined Arsenal and Tottenham in the race to sign Besiktas midfielder Oguzhan Ozyakup.
A source close to the player revealed to Turkish-Football that the Hammers have become the latest club to express an interest in Ozyakup.
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic is no stranger to Ozyakup having coached him for two seasons during his time in charge of Besiktas.
Since Bilic’s departure the Black Eagles have gone onto lift back-to-back league titles with Ozyakup playing a key role in the championship winning side.
Ozyakup has just over 12 months remaining on his contract but sources close to Besiktas claim he has been offered a lucrative five-year extension.
The Istanbul giants would however, still be open to offers that match their £13 million valuation.
Besiktas president Fikret Orman is open to the idea of selling Ozyakup but only to the right club.
Orman made it clear that he would only sell the Turkish international to a major European club.
The club president angered Leicester City fans after underlining that he would not let the 24-year-old join a club like the Foxes so it remains to be seen whether he would accept an offer from the Hammers.
“We will sell players if we receive the right offers,” Orman was quoted as saying by Turkish-Football.
“We have not received the right offer yet for Oguzhan and as I have said before he will only join a club of the highest level club.
“I would not for example sell him to Leicester City.
“I want him to play at the highest level.”
Considering Tottenham will play Champions League football and the fact that Arsenal are a high profile club we doubt Orman would have much of a problem letting Ozykaup leave for either club.
Goal recently reported that Arsenal are keen on bringing Ozyakup back to the club.
Ozyakup rose through the Gunners ranks, winning the Youth FA Cup in 2009 alongside Jack Wilshere and Francis Coquelin before leaving for Besiktas in 2012.
The 24-year-old has gone onto become a star player for the Black Eagles, winning two league titles.
HITC
West Ham interested in £10m Munir El Haddadi
West Ham United are showing strong interest in Barcelona's Munir El Haddadi.
Saikat Mandal
Barcelona are looking to sell Spanish forward Munir El Haddadi who spent last season on loan at Valencia.
The 21-year-old, who was so highly rated when he first broke into the senior team, now looks surplus to requirements at Barcelona.
He made 39 appearances across all competitions for Los Che in 2016/17, scoring eight goals and providing three assists.
However, according to reports from Mundo Deportivo, Valencia are unwilling to allow his move to be a permanent one. The report suggests that any potential club can sign him permanently for around £10 million.
Valencia have until next week to trigger the option, and failing to do so, could see the player moving towards the Premier League.
The Hammers are one of the four Premier League clubs credited with ‘serious’ interest for the player, the other three being Everton, Crystal Palace and Southampton.
Munir is a versatile young player who is capable of operating in both right and left, as well as playing as a front striker. He would be a good addition to the Hammers squad.
