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BBC
Wolves will consider a move for free agent and former England striker Andy Carroll, 33, if they fail to sign Diego Costa. (Telegraph - subscription required)
Manchester United and Chelsea will continue to monitor the situation of Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong, 25, at Barcelona before a possible move for the player in January. (Caught Offside)
Manchester City are eyeing up a move for Germany international Toni Kroos in January, with the 32-year-old midfielder opting not to extend his contract with Real Madrid beyond next summer. (El Nacional - in Spanish)
Brazil midfielder Douglas Luiz, 24, plans to leave Aston Villa as a free agent at the end of the season. (UOL - in Portuguese)
Arsenal are unlikely to go back in for the former Manchester City player Luiz in January. (Teamtalk)Southampton's English winger Nathan Redmond, 28, is set to join Turkish side Besiktas on a one-year deal. (Fabrizio Romano)
Chelsea and Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, 30, has turned down an initial contract renewal offer because it was lower than the wage of second-choice stopper Kepa Arrizabalaga. (Standard)
Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic has played down his club's link with 29-year-old Tottenham and England forward Harry Kane. (talkSPORT)
Arsenal failed in a £26m bid for Spain forward Ferran Torres after Barcelona manager Xavi overruled the board's decision to let the 22-year-old leave the Nou Camp this summer. (El Nacional - in Spanish)
Ajax's Dutch striker Brian Brobbey, 20, says he was approached by manager Erik ten Hag to join Manchester United this summer. (ESPN.nl via Voetbal Primeur - in Dutch)
Brighton and Colombia midfielder Steven Alzate, 23, is in talks with Standard Liege over a loan deal until the end of the season. (Telegraph)
Roma want to tie injured Italy midfielder Nicolo Zaniolo, 23, down to a new contract. (Calciomercato - in Italian)
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DAILY TELEGRAPH
Eric Bailly has taken a thinly veiled swipe at what he believes was Manchester United's indulgence of Harry Maguire.
Antony has waded into a row between rival agents over his £85.5m move to Manchester United.
Brighton midfielder Steven Alzate is in talks with Standard Liege over a season-long loan in Belgium.
Women's Super League teams are to continue taking a knee when the new season begins on Saturday, with club captains agreeing to give their team-mates the option to carry on performing the pre-match anti-racism gesture if they wish to do so.
Sir Andrew Strauss has warned counties that English cricket faces an exodus of its playing talent unless reforms to the domestic game are adopted.
Tennis will introduce a major new mixed team tournament next year that will allow leading players from the same country, such as Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu, to join forces.
DAILY MAIL
Manchester United, Chelsea and Leeds have been declared the winners of a frenetic and uniquely expensive summer transfer window, but Liverpool are among the biggest losers, according to data analysts.
THE SUN
Ajax sporting director Gerry Hamstra has slammed Manchester United for their timing of the £133m double swoop for Lisandro Martinez and Antony.
Ethan Mbappe made his European debut for Paris Saint-Germain Under-19s in their 5-3 win over Juventus.
Arsenal were reportedly left frustrated late in the transfer window due to their move for Pedro Neto being scuppered by Nottingham Forest.
Norway have axed Mathias Normann from their squad indefinitely because he is playing for a Russian football team.
Arsenal reportedly failed with a late £26m move for ex-Man City star Ferran Torres.
THE ATHLETIC
Liverpool coach John Achterberg and Newcastle United coach Daniel Hodges have been charged by the FA for alleged improper behaviour during the match between the two sides on August 31.
Jules Kounde has spoken on the influential role of Barcelona manager Xavi in his decision to join the club this summer.
EVENING STANDARD
Manchester City defensive pair John Stones and Kyle Walker are both doubts for Saturday's visit of Tottenham.
SCOTTISH SUN
A diehard Rangers fan has lost a discrimination case over his allegiance to the Ibrox outfit after a judge ruled football is not a religion.
HITC
West Ham agreed to sign striker for £29m; Now he’s moved for just £2m
West Ham United spent the best part of 18 months scouring the market for a centre-forward without Maxi Gomez’s name ever really registering on their radar.
In fact, the one-time gossip column regular has been conspicuous by his absence from the Premier League picture for some time now.
A very underwhelming spell at Valencia has turned Gomez, once one of Europe’s most coveted young forwards, into a man desperate to kick-start his stuttering career. So desperate, in fact, that he jetted out to Turkey in the final hours of the window. The Turkish Super Lig; the refuge of the forgotten and the ill-fated. Gomez joins Dele Alli, Arthur Masuaku and Cenk Tosun, making his home on the banks of the black sea.
Maxi Gomez could have signed for West Ham United
To think, as recently as 2019, the Uruguay international found himself at the centre of a fiercely-contested tug-of-war. West Ham were holding one end of the rope, Valencia the other. Per Sky, both clubs agreed a £29 million fee for Gomez after 30 La Liga goals for Celta Vigo.
The chance to maintain his eye-catching progress on Spanish soil, however, was one Gomez could not turn down. Even a double-your-money offer at the London Stadium wasn’t enough to twist his arm; the old-school penalty-box predator dreaming of the Mestalla’s bright lights and rich history.
“I was relaxed. There was a lot of talk of a lot of clubs but I left it with my sister, my family,” he told The Guardian three years ago. “They were the ones who handled it all with my agents.
“(Interest from) West Ham was real. A big club. But when I found out about Valencia, I didn’t hesitate, because of the language, the club, the league.”
What could’ve been?
Three years later, Maxi Gomez shuffles out the back door to very little fanfare. That just about sums up how things went for him at Valencia. A dream move turning into, well, not quite a nightmare but certainly a bit of an ordeal.
Gomez scored just five times during 2021/22. And his deadline day departure – Gomez joins Turkish champions Trabzonspor for just £2 million – was overshadowed by the subsequent arrival of Edinson Cavani and the sale of club captain Carlos Soler to Paris Saint-Germain.
West Ham’s so-called striker ‘curse’ – over 30 have been signed during the Gold and Sullivan era and you can probably count the successes on one hand – is well documented. Would Maxi Gomez have broken the trend? Or would he have joined Sebastien Haller, Simone Zaza and Jonathan Calleri in the pantheon of ill-fated forwards who arrived amid lofty expectations and departed a disappointment?
Arriving for £29 million, departing for £2 million, this is one transfer saga West Ham fans may look back on with a sense of relief.
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