BBC
Manchester United have rejected a bid from Tottenham for 21-year-old France forward Anthony Martial. (RMC Sport via Independent)
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will target Napoli and Italy forward Lorenzo Insigne, 26, if playmaker Philippe Coutinho, 25, forces through a move to Barcelona. (Sunday People)
Barcelona will return with an offer in excess of £100m for Brazil international Coutinho. (Sunday Express)
Chelsea will make a second bid of around £25m for Leicester midfielder Danny Drinkwater, 27, this week after having a £15m offer turned down by the Foxes earlier this summer. (Sunday Telegraph)
Real Madrid have admitted defeat in their bid to sign Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea this season. (Sunday Express)
Barcelona have signed Brazil and former Tottenham midfielder Paulinho, 29, for 40m euros (£36.6m) from Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande. (Mail on Sunday)
Paris St-Germain could spend more than 60m euros (£54.9m) on Monaco defender Fabinho, 23, on top of any deal for the Brazil international's team-mate Kylian Mbappe, 18. (ESPN)
PSG have secured the signing of Kylian Mbappe for a fee that will exceed the £200m they spent on Neymar. They will pay an initial fee of £173m plus add ons. (Sunday Times- subscription required)
Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil, 28, does not want to stay at Arsenal and is pushing for a move to Barcelona. (Don Balon via Daily Star Sunday)
Tottenham will go on a spending spree before the transfer window closes, starting with a firm offer for 23-year-old Everton and England midfielder Ross Barkley. (Sunday Telegraph)
But Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino is questioning whether Barkley is worth pursuing and is more interested in a £50m double move for Celta Vigo midfielder Pape Cheikh Diop, 20, and Ajax defender Davinson Sanchez, 21. (Sun on Sunday)
Dutch side Ajax have already rejected a 40m euro (£36.6m) bid from Spurs and offered Colombia international Sanchez a new contract to convince him to stay. (De Telegraaf - in Dutch)
Chelsea would be willing to sell Belgium's attacking midfielder Eden Hazard, 26, to Barcelona for 120m euros (£110m). (Diario Gol via Daily Star Sunday)
Manchester United have re-opened talks over a move for Inter Milan and Croatia winger Ivan Perisic, 28, and are close to matching the Italian side's £48m asking price. (Sunday Mirror)
Chelsea are worried striker Diego Costa, 28, has put on too much weight during his holiday in Brazil, making the Spain international more difficult to sell. (Sunday Times - subscription required)
Costa faces a Chelsea fine after failing to report back for the new season two weeks ago. (Daily Star Sunday)
Liverpool have told Emre Can, 23, he is going nowhere despite Juventus lining up a £23m offer as the Germany midfielder enters the final year of his contract. (Sunday Mirror)
Gylfi Sigurdsson, 27, will finally compete a transfer to Everton this week, which will see Swansea move for West Brom midfielder Nacer Chadli, 28, and trigger Tottenham to sign Ross Barkley, 23, from the Toffees. (Sunday People)
Everton boss Ronald Koeman will not end his summer spending with Sigurdsson and is keen on a move for Fiorentina and Croatia striker Nikola Kalinic, 29. (Sunday Express)
But Kalinic, 29, prefers a move to fellow Italian side AC Milan. (Sky Sports)
France striker Antoine Griezmann, 26, could leave Atletico Madrid if they sell Slovenia goalkeeper Jan Oblak, 24, to Paris St-Germain. (Don Balon via Sunday Express)
Spain attacking midfielder Marco Asensio, 21, will use interest from clubs including Arsenal as leverage to secure a new deal at Real Madrid. (Diario Gol - in Spanish)
Arsenal have given up on signing 21-year-old midfielder Thomas Lemar from Monaco, with manager Arsene Wenger now focused on selling fringe player to cut the club's wage bill. (Mail on Sunday)
Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez is stepping up his pursuit of Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, 25, with the England international resigned to leaving the Gunners. (Sun on Sunday)
Meanwhile...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been told by Manchester United medics and American specialists to ease up as the striker pushes himself to recover from knee ligament injury. (Sun on Sunday)
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique says he knew Neymar was leaving for PSG even when he Tweeted a photo of the pair with the caption "he stays". (AS)
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Barcelona are turning their attention to Tottenham and Denmark attacking midfielder Christian Eriksen, 25, because of Liverpool's refusal to sell 25-year-old playmaker Philippe Coutinho. (Independent)
Liverpool priced Brazil international Coutinho at 150m euros (£136.5m) during negotiations this week. (Daily Record)
Borussia Dortmund and France forward Ousmane Dembele remains Barcelona's top target, with the Spanish side set to return with an improved 140m euro (£127m) bid for the 20-year-old. (AS)
PSG have offered 18-year-old forward Kylian Mbappe an annual salary of 18m euros (£16.4m) over five years to convince him to leave Monaco. (L'Equipe - in French)
Swansea will offer £20m for former midfielder Joe Allen, 27, despite Stoke saying the Wales international is not for sale. (Mirror)
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Slaven Bilic Column: We are optimistic for Old Trafford test
For a manager, there is always a unique and special feeling before the first Premier League game of the new season. It is the one time of the year when everything is in front of you, on a blank canvas, and everyone starts level.
We are all optimistic, and we have good reason to be so. We have been training well, we have kept the players at the Club that we wanted to keep, and we added to our squad some real quality.
We also learned a lot from last season that I believe will be of help to us in this campaign. And I said that a few times last year. That pressure and those difficult situations, which makes you stronger as an individual and, more importantly as a team.
So we are confident of a good season. We have big plans, big expectations, and we want to achieve our targets.
This is the start of my third season as manager, and our opening matches in those three years have been Arsenal away, Chelsea away and Manchester United away – I think I must have done something to upset the fixture computer!
Seriously, though, we have to relish these big occasions against big teams. You can say ‘we have to play them at some stage so why not play them now’. We beat Arsenal two years ago and were very close to getting a draw at Chelsea last year, so we do not approach this game with fear.
United will be a big test for us. They have brought Lukaku in, but that will not change their style – Mourinho has brought in players to fit his style and his shape…only better than what they had.
But we can also say that we are stronger. We have managed to sign the targets first on our list this summer – players with a winning mentality and winning experience, who are still hungry and have something to prove.
Their presence in the dressing-room and on the pitch can already be felt, but we still have to give them time to reach their peak and to gel into the team, so we know that once again the first requirement on Sunday is to be solid, to work hard as a team and to fight for every ball.
It is a process, and you don’t expect your team to be at their very best – in terms of rhythm and consistency – in the first match. But there is no getting away from the excitement that surrounds the opening game and the players feel that too – they can’t wait for it and they are fully motivated.
Look at Arsenal against Leicester last night – there is no playing at 60% and easing yourself into it, this is the Premier League and it is 100% from the very start.
So we have to be ready, and I am sure we will be. I know our fans will be – they will travel up in their numbers as always, and we will look up at that corner at Old Trafford and gain strength from them.
Mail
Joe Hart hopes to fight off competition for England spot ahead of World Cup by proving himself at West Ham
Joe Hart spoke of his gratitude to West Ham owners for bringing him in
England goalkeeper intent on making point to club and international coaches
He said: 'I cannot be any more grateful for the opportunity they have given me'
Hart is looking forward to attempting an upset against Manchester United
By Kieran Gill
Some clubs welcome their new signings by having them sing a song in the canteen for their team-mates. Others have them dance or make a speech on their first day.
So when Joe Hart turned up to meet the media sporting a shiner, the England No 1 felt the need to explain why. 'My induction was to have a fight with Andy Carroll,' joked the West Ham keeper. 'Andy hasn't come off worse than me.
'Nah, I spread for the ball. I get hit in the face quite a lot but this is the first time it has actually marked me.'
Joe Hart wants to reestablish himself among the Premier League elite goalkeepers
A bruised eye but no bruised ego, says Hart, who is at West Ham because Pep Guardiola decided he didn't want him at Manchester City. He insists he has no hard feelings, because he does not care about Guardiola's opinion. As of now, he only cares about Slaven Bilic's and Gareth Southgate's.
'I'm trying to make a point to Slaven,' said Hart, who faces Manchester United on Sunday. 'He's my coach. I'm trying to make my point to Gareth Southgate. They're my coaches. They're the people whose opinions I care about.
'Ideally I wanted to be signing a permanent deal somewhere so I could set my life up and have a direction. But that wasn't meant to be and West Ham have been absolutely fantastic towards me.
'I cannot be any more grateful for the opportunity they have given me. Slaven has come and Mr (David) Gold and Mr (David) Sullivan have come in and made their intentions clear that they want me to be here. There wasn't an awful lot of movement goalkeeper-wise this summer so I'm very grateful to get this opportunity.'
But if he is going to be England's first-choice keeper in Russia next summer, he has plenty of competition, with World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovakia coming up next month. Burnley's Tom Heaton, Everton's Jordan Pickford and Stoke City's Jack Butland are breathing down his neck.
Hart spoke to Southgate before joining West Ham and they agreed that it would be best if he played in the Premier League this season.
'I kept him updated with my situation,' Hart said. 'Gareth thinks West Ham is the right place for me to be. I want to play at the highest standard available to me. This definitely fits this criteria.
'I've always said the standard of keepers in England is very high. Big Fras [Fraser Forster] has signed a new deal at Southampton. Heaton has been nothing short of a miracle for Burnley with his performances.
Hart is hoping his performances this season help him keep hold of his England place
'It is tough to get into a Premier League team, I found that out myself this summer.'
On City struggling to find the right goalkeeper since he left, Hart added: 'That's their problem. I need to look after myself, I need to be selfish in this situation.
'My feelings for Manchester City will never change, I'm eternally grateful to them as a football club.
'They took me as a 19-year-old boy from Shrewsbury Town, took something of a punt on me, and I've had some fantastic times there and built some really great relationships.
'The fans have been so supportive of me, even in the last year. As far as the business side of it goes, new managers and new opinions, that's football, I just have to take it on the chin.'
Hart's first Premier League appearance since May 2016 is at Old Trafford and he is well aware of what to expect.
'I'm probably going to get a similar reception to the one I usually get there but it's business.
'I want to go there and I want to win, that's all I want to do, whichever side of Manchester it is and whichever side of England it is, I'm going there to win.'
Guardian
Joe Hart: 'I want to be an England goalkeeper playing for West Ham'
West Ham have brought in plenty of experience – and it could be the start of something, says Joe Hart, as he seeks to play at ‘the highest standard possible’
Nick Ames
A dab of make-up cannot conceal the black eye Joe Hart is sporting as he walks into West Ham United’s press room and the topic is swiftly raised: have pre-season preparations at Rush Green taken an unsavoury turn? “Yeah, the induction was to have a fight with Andy [Carroll],” is the retort before the less sensational truth, that he had received a ball to the face while spreading to make a save, follows with appropriate haste.
If Hart had taken a punch he would probably have rolled with it. He will start his loan club’s opener at Old Trafford this afternoon, a year to the day since his absence from Pep Guardiola’s lineup against Sunderland made it abundantly clear that there would be little hope of a future under the current Manchester City regime, and he does not hide the fact his situation is imperfect. Last season’s hurriedly arranged spell at Torino was a means to an end; this summer, at 30 years old, he would have preferred to set down roots than be lent for another 12 months. City would have sold him for £25m but no bid was forthcoming; some players might have sulked but Hart is a pragmatist and, besides, the stakes were too high in a World Cup year. He took the temporary move that offered “the highest standard possible” and the challenge in east London was one he welcomed.
“I think a permanent move was always going to be difficult,” he says. “I don’t think there were too many options for that, if any. That would have been my ideal situation. I’ve always answered questions honestly, and ideally I wanted to be signing a permanent deal somewhere so I could set my life up and have a direction.
“But that wasn’t to be and West Ham have been absolutely fantastic towards me. I can’t be any more grateful to Slaven [Bilic], Mr Gold and Mr Sullivan for coming and making clear that they wanted me to be here, and I’m over the moon to be a part of this club. There wasn’t an awful lot of movement goalkeeper-wise this summer so I’m very thankful to get this opportunity.”
Hart describes the circumstances behind his move as “business” more than once and makes it clear that he did not want to sit on his £4.5m salary at City. “Not everyone in football wants to play football,” he says. “When you become a professional footballer there’s no written contract that says you have to strive to play first-team football. It’s a job at the end of the day but there are a lot of us, myself included, that just love playing football. If I can’t play for my club, and logistics and business mean I can’t be bought or sold but someone’s willing to play me elsewhere, then of course it needs to happen.”
There is no outward resentment towards City although there is equally no indication their goalkeeping travails since his departure for Italy – which has taken in unsuccessful experiments with Claudio Bravo and Willy Cabellero and will, for now at least, settle on the new signing, Ederson – do not puzzle him.
“That’s their problem,” he says of a position that Guardiola has found more difficult to fill than might have been anticipated. “I need to look after myself. I need to be selfish in this situation. My feelings towards Manchester City will never change; I’m eternally grateful to them as a football club. They took me as a 19-year-old boy from Shrewsbury Town, took somewhat of a punt on me and I’ve had some fantastic times. The fans have been so supportive of me, even in the past year, and that’s something that will never die for me.
“But as far as the business side goes, with new managers and opinions, it’s unfortunately football and you’ve just got to take it on the chin. There’s no point in taking it too personally because it’s not all about me. The game moves quickly and you’ve got two choices: you can moan about it, make smart comments and try to work out why it was done or you can just try and get on with it. I’ve taken the latter.”
Similarly there is no direct rebuttal of Guardiola’s view, never publicly expressed but widely held to have crystallised in the buildup to 2016-17, that Hart’s ability to build play from the back was inadequate for his requirements. The implication that he fared perfectly well with a comparable approach in Serie A is clear enough, though, as is the sense he does not consider this a politic time to offer more on the matter.
“I feel I can adapt to what my manager wants,” he says. “It was what Sinisa Mihajlovic wanted [at Torino] last year and I felt like I could do what he asked me to, and at the moment I feel capable of doing what Slaven is asking me to do. It’s the same when I’ve been with England and any manager I’ve played under. I’ve felt comfortable that I can achieve what they’ve asked.”
Hart has the confidence of Gareth Southgate, whose keenness to communicate with his national team players goes down well. The pair have spoken during the summer and Hart was assured West Ham would be an appropriate destination. He remained Southgate’s first choice last season despite the upheaval he had undergone; one imagines it would take a severe downturn for Jack Butland, Fraser Forster or Tom Heaton – whose performances for Burnley last season he describes as “a miracle” – to dislodge him and he hopes a place at Russia 2018 will be a natural consequence of domestic success.
“I want to be an England goalkeeper playing for West Ham, I really do, and that’s my intention,” he says. “It’s a privileged position to play for the country and every single time I put on that No1 jersey for England I’m very proud and excited for what comes with it.”
He will not wear that number for West Ham – “I didn’t feel it was right to take the No1 shirt; I’m currently on loan at West Ham, and I’ve enjoyed a lot of good times in the No25 shirt” – and if star billing is unimportant, then there are others in the squad who can take that mantle. Pablo Zabaleta, his former team-mate at City, was a familiar face when Hart arrived and is “like a brother” to him; more eye-catching still is the arrival of Javier Hernández, whom he once knew as a cross-Manchester rival and he now believes can give the club a spearhead they have long needed.
“I’ve loved his intensity, I’ve loved his professionalism, it’s been great to meet the man and realise he’s the real deal,” he says. The new concentration of title-winning experience – Hart, Zabaleta and Hernández have two apiece – in West Ham’s dressing room should help a side that too often seemed directionless last season. European football is the target.
“I come here with really high demands of my team-mates because I demand a lot of myself,” he says. “I’m here to win games, I’m here to try and help, I’m here to learn. If everyone’s got a similar sort of mind-set we’ve got a dangerous squad.”
It is not a stretch to conclude that the last year bruised Hart rather more than that shiner to his right eye but he is keen to ensure the marks show only faintly. Today will bring boos from the Manchester United support, as always, and the biggest significance will be that it means business as usual.
“Sometimes you have to take a few things on the chin, dig in and work,” he says. “But working hard isn’t a problem for me, digging deep isn’t a problem. That’s who I am and it’s what I’ll continue doing until my body won’t let me.”
C&H
Carvalho update
West Ham are still negotiating hard for the signature of William Carvalho but the deal has still not been completed.
Despite upping their offer to 30 million euros the Irons are still waiting for a final nod from Sporting Lisbon that the 25 year old holding midfielder will be switching to the London Stadium.
The Portuguese outfit have a 39 million euros buy out clause on the player and the Hammers want to make up the £9 million shortfall with add ons.
Slaven Bilic is desperate to get a player who can ensure the team is nothing like as easy to pass through at the back which was a regular issue last season.
And the Hammers negotiators are still deep in talks with the player believed to have agreed to a five year deal.
Carvalho was missing from the Lisbon line up which beat Vitoria 1-0 on Friday having been replaced by the newly signed Rodrigo Battliga – believed to be his replacement long term .
And Carvalho has made it crystal clear to his club that he is desperate to make the switch to the London Stadium.
A Hammers source told ClaretandHugh: “We are negotiating hard but as things stand at this moment the deal has not been completed.”
Sport Witness
West Ham have made a new offer, totalling more than €42.5m, real progress made
William Carvalho to West Ham is getting closer according to the Portuguese press. That’s been the case for several days, with various Portuguese newspapers bringing updates on offers, counter offers, and what progress is being made.
Throughout there has been a striking optimism. Carvalho transfer rumours are very frequent, especially to the Premier League. West Ham are just the latest in a long line of clubs seriously linked with signing the defensive midfielder, but the Portuguese press insist this time it’s different.
Sunday’s copy of Record details West Ham’s latest offer, but first they go over the old offer. As we covered several days ago, West Ham proposed €30m plus €5m in easy bonuses and €5m in more difficult bonuses.
Sporting president Bruno de Carvalho presented a counter offer of €35m plus €10m in bonuses, and now West Ham have met him roughly halfway.
West Ham have prposed €32m, €5-10m in future payments, and 5% of a future transfer fee. On top of that, West Ham will pay the €600k FIFA solidarity payment. Without the sell-on percentage, that totals a possible €42.6m headline figure.
There are still matters in discussion, such as when the payments will be made, but movements are expected in the next few days.
