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BBC
Spain goalkeeper David de Gea, 27, has agreed a new five-year deal with Manchester United, ending talk of a move to Real Madrid. (Manchester Evening News)
Paris St-Germain want to sign Chelsea's French midfielder N'Golo Kante. PSG are willing to play £90m to bring the 26-year-old to the club. (Mirror)
Nice manager Patrick Vieira says France and Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba looked like he had "lost himself as a footballer" sometimes during the past season and that the 25-year-old "needs to simplify his game, get back to basics, not worry about playing for the crowd". (Times - subscription required)
Real Madrid's Welsh forward Gareth Bale, 28, is keen to work with new head coach Julen Lopetegui instead of returning to the Premier League. (ESPN)
Real Madrid have agreed a 45m-euro (£39.4m) deal to sign 17-year-old forward Rodrygo Goes from the Brazilian side Santos in July 2019. (Guardian)
Barcelona have been contacted about forward Neymar returning to the club. The 26-year-old Brazilian left the Nou Camp to join Paris St-Germain for a world-record £200m. (Marca)
Maurizio Sarri is close to replacing Antonio Conte as Chelsea manager. Agent Fali Ramadani will speak to Napoli this weekend to try and reach an agreement. Sarri is still contracted to the Italian club even though he has been replaced as boss by Carlo Ancelotti. (Independent)
Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola could return to the club as Sarri's assistant. (Sun)
Chelsea are confident of keeping Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, 26. Real Madrid have had a long-term interest in Courtois but are now turning their attention towards Roma's Brazilian stopper Alisson, 25. (Evening Standard)
Newcastle are facing competition from Leicester to sign Crystal Palace's English winger Andros Townsend. Newcastle are willing to pay £20m for the 26-year-old. (Guardian)
Tottenham are monitoring the situation of Borussia Dortmund's German midfielder Mario Gotze. The 26-year-old could be sold for £16m over the summer. (Football.London)
Spurs also face competition from Wolves to sign Barcelona and Portugal playmaker Andre Gomes, 24. (Sun)
Both Liverpool and Chelsea are interested in Porto's 25-year-old Brazilian. defender Alex Telles. (Metro via La Parisien)
Wayne Rooney, 32, could make his DC United debut on 14 July as the Everton and former England forward edges closer to a move to the MLS. (Mirror)
Roma are planning to disrupt Arsenal's move for Bayer Leverkusen's Germany goalkeeper Bernd Leno, 26. (Premium via Talksport)
Atletico Madrid are planning to improve Jan Oblak's contract. The 25-year-old Slovenia goalkeeper has been a target for Real Madrid, Paris St-Germain and Liverpool. (AS)
Everton's fitness coach Ryland Morgans is set to leave the club following the arrival of new boss Marco Silva and his backroom staff. (Liverpool Echo)
West Brom have decided not to sign Egyptian defender Ali Gabr permanently. Gabr, 29, joined the Baggies on loan from Zamalek in January. (Express & Star)
Fifa is investigating why there were so many empty seats at the match between Egypt and Uruguay, despite all-but 783 tickets for the match having been sold. (Times - subscription required)
World football's governing body has ruled out "concussion bins" whereby players who take a blow to the head can be assessed by way of a temporary substitution - as they may be taken advantage of by managers. (Telegraph)
The Premier League is planning an eSports competition involving all 20 of the league's clubs with the same makers of the Fifa football game. (Mail)
Sport Witness
Player to sign five-year deal with West Ham after Hammers agree €25m fee
Toulouse defender Issa Diop is attracting interest from England, with West Ham United, Everton and Fulham all believed to be interested in signing the Frenchman.
It was French newspaper L’Equipe who reported the Hammers had submitted a €15-€20 million bid for the 21-year-old on Wednesday. On the same day, the same publication also mentioned interest from the Merseyside club and the Cottagers.
Today’s edition of L’Equipe reports Diop’s move to West Ham should “come to fruition in the next few days”. The central defender still has two years left on his contract with the Ligue 1 outfit.
West Ham were facing competition from Sevilla for Diop. The Spanish outfit were ready to pay €15m for the defender, while the Premier League club offered €10m more than Sevilla.
The report claims West Ham and Toulouse have reached an agreement for the player. Diop will travel to London early next week and sign a five-year deal with Manuel Pellergini’s side.
Diop started in 34 league games for Toulouse in the 2017/18 season and scored three goals in the process.
Football London
Who is Issa Diop? Everything you need to know about the West Ham summer transfer target
Youngster could become Manuel Pellegrini's second summer signing
By Lee Wilmot
Where does he play?
He is an imposing young centre-back, standing at 6ft 3ins tall.
Where is he from?
Diop is of Senegalese descent, but was born in Toulouse, France and has played for his hometown club since 2015.
What's his history with Toulouse?
He has played in the first team since the age of 18, racking up 85 appearances for the French side, scoring six goals.
How did he get on last year?
Toulouse struggled throughout the Ligue Un season, but managed to retain their status, just, by beating Ajaccio in a relegation play-off.
Leadership
At the tender age of 21, Diop has been the Toulouse captain this season and has captain the France U23 side too.
Discipline
Manuel Pellegrini may have an issue with the youngster when it comes to discipline, with Diop collecting six yellow cards and two red cards during his first full season. Ten yellows followed in 2016/17 with nine more last season.
International
Diop has represent France at various youth international levels and even won the European U19 Championships in 2016.
Who else has been interested?
Barcelona were credited with an interest in the youngster. Meanwhile London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham also sent scouts to watch him in action last season.
Sky
West Ham back in talks to sign Javier Pastore from Paris Saint-Germain
West Ham have re-opened talks to sign Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Javier Pastore, according to Sky sources.
Sky Sports News understands talks between the Premier League side and the Argentina midfielder earlier this month had halted due to the player's high wage demands.
According to Sky sources, the 28-year-old is currently asking for wages up to £190,000-a-week.
West Ham are keen to bring Pastore to the club and have re-opened talks over a deal that would be worth up to £17.5m.
PSG are willing to sell the Argentine as they aim to comply with UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations.
Pastore, who joined PSG from Palermo in 2011, has only one year left on his current contract at the Parc des Princes.
He has scored 45 goals in 265 appearances for the current Ligue 1 champions.
New West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini is aiming to sign up to five players this summer after promising the club's fans an attacking revolution.
The club remain in talks with Swansea over deals to sign defender Alfie Mawson and goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, according to Sky sources.
Swansea have already rejected bids from West Ham for both players, but it is understood both parties are edging closer to an agreement over the respective fees.
Sky sources understand the negotiations between the clubs centre around the structure of the payments in both deals.
Elsewhere, West Ham look to be close to finalising a deal for Lazio midfielder Felipe Anderson, according to Sky in Italy.
Representatives from both clubs met in Rome earlier this week to agree a fee in the region of £26m - plus 20 per cent of the fee from a future sale.
C&H
Lukasz Fabianski passes secret medical
Lukasz Fabianski flew to London before joining the Polish squad in Russia to take a medical with West Ham.
The 33-year-old keeper had been training with the Polish national team at their pre-World Cup camp at Arłamów, a mountain resort in southeastern Poland. That training camp finished on 7th June and Fabianski is understood to have secretly flown to London directly afterwards to undertake a discrete medical with the Hammer
The Swansea keeper is now in Russia in Sochi at Poland’s World cup training base staying with his squad at the Hyatt Regency Sochi. On Tuesday he and his squad travel to Moscow for their first game in Group H against Senegal captained by Hammer Cheik Kouyate. Fellow countryman Wojciech Szczesny is likely to get the nod ahead of Fabianski in the starting lineup.
Despite the player being away on International duty at the World Cup, the transfer is still expected to complete in the near future.
HITC
West Ham tracking Brentford's Chris Mepham
Shane Callaghan
West Ham United and Bournemouth are linked with the Brentford starlet.
According to The Daily Mail's Live Transfer Blog [16/06/2018, 12:30], West Ham United are tracking Brentford defender Chris Mepham.
The 20-year-old had an excellent breakthrough season with the Bees in the Championship last term.
He made such a good impression, in fact, that Bournemouth, who were linked in January, have lodged a £10 million offer.
However, The Daily Mail claims that the Cherries have been knocked back in their attempts to sign the Wales international.
The report goes on to claim that West Ham are also interested in Mepham, stands at 6'3.
If the report about Bournemouth is true then it looks like West Ham will have to spend relatively big on the towering centre-back.
Rejecting an opening bid of £10 million suggests that Brentford aren't willing to let him go on the cheap, but you have to imagine that the player in question might favour a move to the Irons over Bournemouth.
The East Londoners have hired Manuel Pellegrini, a Premier League-winning manager, so it'll be interesting to see how this one pans out.
Sports Mole
West Ham United midfielder Pedro Obiang on Fiorentina radar
By Giuseppe Labellarte, Reporter
West Ham United midfielder Pedro Obiang has emerged as a transfer target for Serie A giants Fiorentina, according to a report.
The former Spain Under-21 international was a regular last season as David Moyes initially got the Hammers out of danger, only for a knee injury to rule the player out until May.
West Ham soon slipped back into relegation trouble, though they ultimately survived in the Premier League by finishing 13th in the table.
According to The Sun, Fiorentina are hoping to seal a swift move for Obiang in a bid to bolster their ranks after a disappointing eighth-placed finish in Serie A last term.
The report adds that new Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini will weigh up whether to cash in on the 26-year-old and use the cash to rebuild his squad, or keep hold of the former Sampdoria man.
La Liga outfit Villarreal have also been linked with Obiang and Turkish side Besiktas are also believed to be monitoring the situation.
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