Paper Talk
Kevin De Bruyne will tell Wolfsburg he wants to leave after Manchester City made an improved £47million offer for the Belgium star.
Arsenal are interested in France striker Karim Benzema but refuse to pay Real Madrid's asking price.
Liverpool's Brazilian midfielder Lucas, 28, is set to join Inter Milan after an alleged bust-up with manager Brendan Rodgers.
West Ham are pushing ahead with a move for free agent Joey Barton despite an angry reaction to the news from some of their fans.
Tottenham lead the race for FC Basel striker Breel Embolo, 18, who is rated at £10m by the Swiss club.
Real Madrid have submitted a final £21.2m bid for Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea.
Keeper Sam Johnstone wants his Old Trafford future sorted out soon - he was hoping to return to Preston on loan but was on the bench against Spurs on Saturday with De Gea left out.
Meanwhile, United are in talks to sign 16-year-old Brazilian wonderkid Lincoln from Gremio.
Lucas is set for the Liverpool exit amid rumours of a falling-out with manager Brendan Rodgers.
Nottingham Forest have accepted a £4m bid from Burnley for captain Henri Lansbury.
QPR want Swindon striker Nathan Byrne as a replacement for Charlie Austin, who is still expected to leave in the summer transfer window.
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal is poised to sign midfielder Lucas Biglia for £17.5m from Lazio this week.
The United boss also expects to land Pedro after Barcelona's European Super Cup clash with Sevilla on Tuesday, taking his outlay past £250m in 15 months.
Stoke will today sign Inter Milan's 23-year-old Swiss midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri for £12m.
Swansea are offering Michu to Spanish side Sevilla to get his £45,000 weekly wages off their bill.
Crystal Palace outcast Jonny Williams is a target for Sky Bet Championship side Fulham.
Everton will turn down a bid of £30m from Chelsea for defender John Stones as the Merseyside club plan to hold on to the player for another year.
Inter Milan striker Xherdan Shaqiri has undertaken a medical at Stoke and hopes to seal a move in the coming days.
Liverpool are willing to listen to offers worth about £8m for Lucas Leiva after a breakdown in the relationship between the midfielder and his manager Brendan Rodgers
Tottenham are continuing transfer talks with French club Lyon about striker Clinton N'Jie, 21, after already having had two bids rejected..
Napoli midfielder Gokhan Inler is expected to decide over the next 48 hours whether to join Leicester, while West Ham, German side Schalke and Turkish club Besiktas are also interested in the player.
Manchester United are considering a new £12m bid from West Ham for striker Javier Hernandez.
Leicester City striker David Nugent is in talks with Middlesbrough after they had a £4m bid accepted.
Watford will announce the loan signing of former West Ham striker Alessandro Diamanti today from Guangzhou Evergrande after the 32-year-old passed his medical and agreed personal terms.
Crystal Palace midfielder Jonny Williams is a loan target for Championship sides Wolves, Fulham and Bristol City.
Wolves are close to signing 22-year-old Arsenal goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez on a season-long loan.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez feels it is "very unfair" that the summer's transfer window is open during the Premier League season.
Chelsea are set to sign Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman, 21, in a deal that could be worth up to £21.7m.
Lucas Leiva is set to leave Liverpool after being demoted to fifth-choice midfielder and being left out of the squad for Sunday's win over Stoke.
Manchester City have made a second bid worth £47m for 24-year-old Wolfsburg winger Kevin De Bruyne.
Spurs are close to completing the signing of 21-year-old Cameroon striker Clinton N'Jie from French side Lyon.
Manchester United look set to fail in their efforts to sign Sergio Ramos, 29, from Real Madrid with the defender poised to agree a new deal worth £7.1m a year.
Leicester appear to have missed out on midfielder Charles Aranguiz after his club Internacional agreed a deal to sell him to Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen.
Liverpool striker Fabio Borini has been told to make his mind up by Wednesday over a proposed move to Fiorentina.
Celtic are set to revive their interest in £3m-rated Club Brugge defender Brandon Mechele as speculation grows over Virgil van Dijk's future at the club.
BBC
Manchester City have made a second bid, worth £47m, for Wolfsburg winger Kevin De Bruyne, 24, in an attempt to make the forward their fifth addition of the summer. (Guardian)
The improved bid will see the Belgium international demand to leave the Bundesliga side. (Daily Mirror)
Everton will turn down Chelsea's offer of £30m for England defender John Stones, 20. (Daily Mail)
But the Toffees are considering a move for AC Milan defender Cristian Zapata, 28, as a possible replacement for Stones, should the centre-back leave. (ESPN)
Real Madrid have submitted a final £21.2m bid for Manchester United's Spain goalkeeper David De Gea, 24. ( Daily Star - from ABC)
Stoke will sign Inter Milan's Swiss midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, 23, for £12m on Tuesday at the third attempt. (Sun - subscription required)
Tottenham are stepping up their interest in Manchester United's Javier Hernandez, 27, and West Brom's Saido Berahino, 21, and are confident of bringing at least one of the strikers in during this transfer window. (London Evening Standard)
Spurs are also hopeful of injecting some pace into their attack by completing the signing of 21-year-old Cameroon striker Clinton N'Jie from Lyon. (Daily Telegraph)
And the Londoners are also favourites to sign FC Basel's 18-year-old Swiss striker Breel Embolo for £10m. (Daily Mirror)
Liverpool are willing to listen to offers for long-serving Brazilian midfielder Lucas Leiva, 28. (Liverpool Echo)
Championship side Blackburn Rovers have moved for Reading midfielder Hope Akpan, 23. (Lancashire Telegraph)
But Middlesbrough and Sunderland target Jordan Rhodes, 25, will not be allowed to leave Ewood Park as part of a player-exchange deal because of a transfer embargo at Rovers. (Times - subscription only)
Manchester United have agreed terms with Argentina defender Lucas Biglia, 29, and will sign him from Lazio for £17.7m. (Le10Sport - in French)
Dani Alves has told Barcelona team-mate Pedro to follow his heart as the 28-year-old midfielder considers leaving the Camp Nou for Manchester United. (London Evening Standard)
United have suffered a blow in their efforts to sign defender Sergio Ramos, 29, from Real Madrid with the Spain international tempted by a new deal at the Bernabeu in which bonuses would take his earnings to £7.1m a year. (Independent)
West Brom are set to sign Liverpool's Spanish defender Jose Enrique, 29. (Liverpool Echo, from Tuttomercatoweb)
Everton could be on the verge of signing Manchester United defender Jonny Evans, 27, after bookmakers cut the odds on the move. (Metro)
Nottingham Forest have accepted a £4m bid from Burnley for midfielder Henri Lansbury, 24, who will hold talks with the Clarets in Lancashire on Tuesday. (Nottingham Post)
Chelsea are set to sign Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman, 21, in a deal that could be worth up to £21.7m. (Daily Express)
Everton manager Roberto Martinez feels it is "very unfair" that the summer's transfer window is open during the Premier League season. (Daily Mail)
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich believes the Red Devils should forget about trying to sign Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, 26, and focus on getting Tottenham's Hugo Lloris, 28. (Talksport)
Paris St-Germain defender Lucas Digne, 22, is set to opt for Roma instead of Liverpool. (ESPN)
Leicester City striker David Nugent, 30, is in talks with Middlesbrough after the Championship club had a £4m bid accepted. (Daily Mail)
Best of social media
Morgan Schneiderlin's postman is being kept busy. The Manchester United midfielder posted a picture on Twitter of the mail he has recently received. "From many places all over the world. Thank you for your mails," he tweeted.
Southampton defender Jose Fonte obviously has a lot of faith in his own ability as he picks himself in his Fantasy Football Team and proves it with a picture on Instagram.
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam has been tweeting get well to a Stoke fan who reportedly had a heart attack at the end of the Liverpool match.
And finally...
Manchester United midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has said he wants his new team-mates to experience the famous Munich beer festival, Oktoberfest - but needs the approval of manager Louis van Gaal. (Daily Mail)
A West Ham fan who promised to have a tattoo should his team beat Arsenal has already made good on his promise, getting the scoreline permanently marked on his back. (London Evening Standard)
Guardian Rumour Mill
Barry Glendenning
Unlike the Rumour Mill, bookies don’t get much wrong so it’s probably worth pointing out that they’ve taken a machete to the odds against Jonny Evans joining Everton. Having started just 14 games for Manchester United last season, the Northern Irishman doesn’t appear to have the backing of Louis van Gaal and a “flood” of money (£10? £20?) means the central defender is now odds on to join the Toffees, having previously been linked with a move to Arsenal or West Brom. Exactly how crippled by a gambling addiction does one have to be before betting on what Evans will do next becomes an attractive punting proposition? With a spare parking space and dressing room peg likely to be freed up at the United training ground, it’s small wonder that mutterings from the continent say Lazio defender Lucas Biglia’s move to Old Trafford is a done deal.
Tottenham Hotspur seem determined to hog a goodly portion of today’s Rumours, having nosed ahead of West Brom and West Ham in the race to make Breel Embolo a Premier League player. The £10m-rated 18-year-old Basel striker already has three caps for Switzerland and scored twice against Lucerne over the weekend, as Tottenham scouts nodded approvingly, licked their pencil nibs and wrote things like “strong”, “fast”, “versatile” and “born on St Valentine’s Day in Cameroon then moved to Switzerland when he was six” in their notebooks. Other strikers being linked with moves to Spurs? Manchester United’s Javier Hernández, West Brom’s Saido Berahino and Lyon’s Clinton N’Jie. It’s almost as if they don’t want Emmanuel Adebayor and Roberto Soldado, eh?
Young Master Embolo isn’t the only Swiss international making his way to Blighty. No less a luminary than Xherdan Shaqiri is expected to pitch up in the Potteries today to finalise his £12m switch from Inter to Stoke City after passing his medical yesterday. Despite sitting through the decidedly moribund spectacle that was Stoke’s defeat at the hands of Liverpool on Sunday, the midfielder has either run out of other options or liked enough of what he saw to remain enthused about the prospect of joining Mark Hughes’s growing collection of exotic signings at the Britannia. He will become the club’s record signing, barring any last minute hiccups.
Out of contract midfielder Joey Barton is expected to cough for the doctors at West Ham before inking a deal that will ensure he remains a Premier League player. With the volatile Slaven Bilic as his manager, what could possibly go wrong?
Chelsea are reported to have completed the £17m transfer of rampaging Augsburg left-back Abdul Baba Rahman, who will provide back-up for César Azpilicueta now that Filipe Luís has returned to Atlético Madrid. Elsewhere in Stamford Bridge, bean-counters are waiting for their Everton counterparts to reject their £30m offer for John Stones, before faxing over another offer of £30m and 1p.
A couple of Liverpool stalwarts look to have touched the famous old “This is Anfield” sign for the last time. Spanish full-back José Enrique is wanted by West Brom, while Brazilian midfielder Lucas is available to anyone with a spare £8m, following a rumoured bust-up with Brendan Rodgers following his omission from Liverpool’s match-day squad against Stoke on Sunday. Diamond geezer Alessandro Diamanti, formerly of West Ham and currently a Guangzhou Evergrande striker, will be shining bright in the Premier League once again when he joins Watford on loan.
Meanwhile in the Championship, Blackburn Rovers like the cut of Reading midfielder Hope Akpan’s jib and plan to make him a fixture at Ewood Park, while Nottingham Forest skipper Henri Lansbury is on his way to Turf Moor to discuss personal terms with Burnley after the two clubs agreed a £4m fee, a club record for the Lancashire club.
And finally, the uncertainty over Manchester United’s goalkeeping situation has left Sam Johnstone in limbo. Having been overlooked for selection when Sergio Romero got the nod for United’s win against Spurs on Saturday, the 22-year-old has confessed that he doesn’t know whether or not he’ll be returning to Preston, where he spent last season on loan, until various other plates stop spinning.
Talksport
Exclusive - ‘He wants to win for his life!’ Harry Redknapp tips Joey Barton to succeed at West Ham
Harry Redknapp believes Joey Barton would be a good buy for West Ham, telling talkSPORT the midfielder will fire up the Hammers players this season.
Barton, a free agent following his release from Queens Park Rangers at the end of last season, has reportedly trained with the Upton Park outfit and is set for a medical ahead of a free transfer this week.
Very much a ‘Marmite’ character with fans, his former QPR boss Redknapp admits the “very opinionated” player's flaws, but nevertheless believes he would be an effective signing for manager Slaven Bilic.
West Ham are on the hunt for steel in the central position with last season’s star loanee Alex Song stalling on a permanent move, and Redknapp claims signing Barton in short-term deal would be a good alternative.
“I had a couple of manager’s ring me last week from good Championship clubs and I said to them I’d take him,” he told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“He’s very opinionated and he’s got strong opinions about the game and doesn’t hold back with them
“But he’s a good player and a good trainer. He gets people at it, he wants to win.
“If they take him for a year I think he’ll be alright. He wants to win for his life, I think he’ll do ok at West Ham.”
London24
West Ham chief gives Tomkins update after Arsenal clashes of heads
James Tomkins is just ‘a bit bruised’ after a nasty clash of heads with Oliver Giroud.
Play was stopped for a while after the West Ham centre-back and the Arsenal striker clashed when challenging for a header in the second half of the Hammers’ shock 2-0 win at the Emirates. Despite looking a little groggy Tomkins played on for the remainder of the match and helped his side start the season with a memorable result in what was the defender’s 200th start for West Ham.
And late on Monday night chairman David Gold tweeted an update. “I saw him (Tomkins) after the game, he’s a bit bruised but very happy with the result,” it read. Arsenal also confirmed on Twitter that Giroud did not suffer concussion and was allowed to go home after the final whistle
The statement read: “Update on Olivier Giroud: contrary to some reports, he was not unconscious at any point after collision today and has returned home as usual.”
ESPN
West Ham pondering bid for Liverpool's Lucas Leiva
Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva is a transfer target for West Ham as they seek an alternative to Alex Song, sources have told ESPN FC.
Lucas' future at Anfield has been placed in doubt after he was omitted from the match-day squad for Liverpool's 1-0 Premier League win at Stoke City at the weekend.
The midfielder was a surprise omission from the squad that made the trip to the Britannia Stadium, with Reds boss Brendan Rodgers open to offers for the player before the close of the transfer window.
Lucas, who joined Liverpool from Gremio in 2007, still has two years to run on his current contract at Anfield, but could find his first-team chances limited this season.
The news of the Brazil international's possible availability has alerted West Ham, who are in the market for a defensive midfielder.
The Hammers have been trying to seal a move for Barcelona midfielder Song after his successful spell on loan at Upton Park last season, however, the deal has been held up because an injury to the former Arsenal man.
Song is not expected to be back in action until November and West Ham are exploring alternatives to the former Cameroon international.
Slaven Bilic was forced to use highly rated youngster Reece Oxford in a defensive-midfield role in the 2-0 win over Arsenal on Sunday and although the 16-year-old excelled in the role, the West Ham boss is keen to bring in a more experienced option.
The Hammers are monitoring Lucas' situation at Liverpool and are weighing up a move for the 28-year-old, should they decide not to pursue their interest in Song.
