FootTheBall Daily 28th May 2016
Transfer Gossip
- Leicester City are set to make their first summer signing. It’s Sporting Gijon centre-back Luis Hernández. (Leicester Mercury)
- Liverpool will have to pay £45m to Barcelona for right-back Aleix Vidal (Mundo Deportivo)
- French newspapers suggest that rising midfield star Paul Pogba is in talks over a £80m move to Chelsea (Daily Star)
- His contract has a £152m release clause. He is not Messi. He is Sergio Busquets who has signed a new Barcelona contract (Guardian)
- Arsenal is moving for for Udinese’s Colombian striker Duvan Zapata (Daily Express)
- Barcelona have offered Villarreal midfielder Denis Suarez a five-year contract (Daily Express)
- Antonio Conte will let Brazil international Oscar leave Chelsea this summer (Daily Mail)
- Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski is on the move again. His agent says the Poland international has held talks with Real Madrid (Spiegel)
- Arsenal fear losing Mesut Ozil to Bayern Munich after contract talks with the 27-year-old midfielder were put on hold until the end of the summer (Sun)
- ‘Unsettled’ goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has pledged his future to Chelsea and has put off talks with Real Madrid (Daily Express)
- Tottenham’s search for Harry Kane’s backup has ended with the club starting negotiations with Basel for teenage Swiss sensation Breel Embolo (Daily Express)
- Swansea has opened talks with AZ Alkmaar’s £6m-rated midfielder Markus Henriken (South Wales Evening Post)