What the papers say
Arsenal have entered their third bid, worth £105million for West Ham star Declan Rice after Manchester City had a bid rejected at £90million, the Guardian said.
West Ham will reportedly wait for Manchester City to submit another offer on Wednesday.
Bayern Munich’s first bid of around £60million plus add-ons for Harry Kane has been deemed too low by Tottenham, the Guardian reported.
The club are demanding £100million for the England and Tottenham captain, who is said to be keen to move to the club.
Inter Milan are looking to acquire Chelsea’s Romelu Lukaku on loan again next season with an £25million option to buy him at the end of the year, the Telegraph said.
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Aaron Ramsdale was left revelling in the fact he saved everything during an inspirational performance as Arsenal beat Leicester City 2-0 on Saturday.
Arsenal were buoyed by two early goals as Gabriel Magalhaes and Emile Smith Rowe had them comfortably ahead inside 18 minutes, but from then Ramsdale was the key man.
A maligned pre-season arrival from Sheffield United, Ramsdale has dislodged Bernd Leno as Arsenal s first-choice goalkeeper and showed why that is the case at the King Power Stadium.
He saved all eight of Leicester s shots on target, which improved his overall save percentage for the season to 85.7, which is bettered by only Edouard Mendy (89.7) among goalkeepers to have faced more than two shots.
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Alberto Aquilani has joined AC Milan on a season-long loan from Liverpool, with a view to a permanent deal.
The 27-year-old midfielder joined the Anfield outfit in 2009 for a fee of 20 million pounds from Roma, but never settled at the club, making just 28 appearances in all competitions.
He spent last season on loan at Juventus before the off-season signings of Charlie Adam, Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing made it clear he would not feature in manager Kenny Dalglish s first-team squad, despite impressing in pre-season.
The loan deal will see him at Milan for the season, with Massimiliano Allegri s side having the option to purchase the midfielder if he makes at least 25 appearances for the club.
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Rangers striker Steven Naismith has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a torn cruciate ligament in his right knee.
Scans on the weekend confirmed the worst possible outcome for the Scotland international, who collapsed with no-one around him during Rangers 2-1 win away at Aberdeen in the Scottish Premier League on Saturday.
Losing Naismith will be a huge blow for the club as the striker has been in great form this season with nine goals to his name from 11 appearances.
Naismith suffered a similar problem in his left knee in 2008 and was out for eight months.
The injury is not only a blow for Rangers but also for Scotland, with manager Craig Levein saying: I really feel for him. He had a problem previously and missed a lot of matche…
Croatian defender Ivan Strinic is on the radar of Italian side Napoli, according to the player s official representative.
The Azzurri need to sign a left-sided defender as Faouzi Ghoulam will soon be leaving to represent Algeria at the Africa Cup of Nations and the Croatia international is one of the players they are looking at.
Strinic appears to be a perfect target seeing as how his contract is due to expire on 31st December, meaning he can be signed on a free transfer in January.
The defender s agent has moved to confirm there has been contact with Napoli even if the Azzurri have yet to submit an official proposal.
“Napoli? Yes, the player also like the Partenopei, so much so that we had a contact and we have also spoken,” agent Tonci Martic told …
Bayer Leverkusen have extended winger Karim Bellarabi s contract with the club until June 2017.
The 24-year-old has been in fine form this season with eight goals in 17 appearances in the Bundesliga, helping Leverkusen to third place under Roger Schmidt.
Bellarabi s return makes him the top goalscorer at the club at the halfway stage in the season, and Leverkusen have acted quickly to tie him down.
In a message on their official Twitter account, the club said: Bayer04 has exercised its option and the current contract with Karim Bellarabi [is] extended until 30 June 2017.
Bellarabi arrived at the BayArena in 2011 but, after recovering from injury, spent last season on loan at former club Eintracht Braunschweig.
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Andrej Kramarić of Hoffenheim has revealed that he would like to end his playing days at his current club. The Croation spoke to the official website of the , and told them about his wish.
The 27-year-old joined Hoffenheim from Leicester City in January 2016, and while the English club won the historic Premier League title that season, Kramarić has gone on to score a club record of 48 Bundesliga goals in 107 appearances for the club, beating the all-time high previously set by Sejad Salihovic.
The Croatia international, capped 44 times and with 13 goals to his name for his country, says he s happy at Hoffenheim. He considers himself still below Salihovic in terms of being a club legend, but his goal is to get there. Scoring more goals, laying on more assists, and th…
that Premier League basement club Sunderland and La Liga high flyers Villarreal are hot on the trail of Schalke defender Dennis Aogo.
With Sead Kolasinac deciding to stay and Abdul Baba Rahman joining the ranks, the 29-year-old is now a third choice left back at Veltins Arena and is, therefore, set to leave for greener pastures.
Aogo can also operate as a holding midfielder, but he is unlikely to see as much playing time as last term, when he made 23 Bundesliga appearances.
According to Sport Bild, Sunderland and Villarreal are locked in the battle for his services, with the player’s representatives negotiating a three-year deal for their client.
Dennis Aogo joined Schalke from Hamburg in the summer of 2013, and he went on to feature in 58 Bundesliga …
´Villarreal will always be my home´ – Cazorla and Bruno bid farewell to Yellow Submarine after LaLig
Santi Cazorla said Villarreal will always be his home after the veteran star bid farewell to the LaLiga club amid links to Xavi s Al-Sadd in Qatar.
Cazorla and long-serving captain Bruno Soriano played their final match for Villarreal in a 4-0 final-round rout of Eibar on Sunday.
The 35-year-old Cazorla, who has made a big impact in his third spell with Villarreal after returning from a serious Achilles injury in 2018 following 636 days on the sidelines, has been linked with a move to Al-Sadd – coached by former Barcelona skipper Xavi.
And former Arsenal playmaker Cazorla bowed out on a winning note with Villareal, providing the assist for Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa s 71st-minute opener at home to Eibar.
Cazorla ended the 2019-20 campaign with 11 goals …
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thinks an upbeat Manchester United can channel the belief gained from their rollercoaster win over Southampton into another famous Champions League fightback.
Two goals from Romelu Lukaku and a spectacular Andreas Pereira strike overturned a first-half deficit and helped United see off the plucky Saints for a thrilling 3-2 triumph at Old Trafford.
The comeback sent confidence soaring ahead of this week s make-or-break Champions League last-16 trip to face Paris Saint-Germain, who take a commanding 2-0 advantage into the second leg.
United will need every bit of their impressive form to erase that scoreline at Parc des Princes but interim boss Solskjaer was encouraged by what he saw after Saturday s victory.
The dressing room was bou…