Manchester United are on the verge of agreeing a deal worth between £35m and £40m to sell 21-year-old Argentina winger Alejandro Garnacho to fellow Premier League side Chelsea. (Telegraph - subscription required, external)
AC Milan have entered the race for Chelsea forward Christopher Nkunku, and the 27-year-old France international has also drawn interest from Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich and his former club RB Leipzig. (Athletic - subscription required, external)
Newcastle are expected to return with an improved offer of £60m for striker Jorgen Strand Larsen after Wolves turned down bids of £50m and £55m for the 25-year-old Norway striker. (Sky Sports, external)
Paris St-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has not given up hope of a move before the deadline with Manchester City the most viable option for the 26-year-old Italian - if Brazil goalkeeper Ederson leaves the Premier League club. (Sky Sports, external)
There are no talks ongoing between Saudi Arabia's Al-Nassr and Manchester City for Ederson, but Galatasaray remain keen on the 32-year-old keeper. (Fabrizio Romano, external)
Meanwhile, Manchester City informed Tottenham on Wednesday they have no intention to let 21-year-old Brazil winger Savinho leave the Etihad Stadium this summer, even for a fee above £60m. (Fabrizio Romano, external)
West Ham are looking to sign Brazilian goalkeeper John Victor, 29, from Botafogo but the Brazilian club want to agree a fee much higher than £6m if the move becomes permanent in the future. (Sky Sports, external)
West Ham have told Everton that they want to keep Tomas Soucek after the Merseyside club launched an enquiry for the 30-year-old Czech Republic midfielder. (Athletic - subscription required, external)
Tottenham have agreed to send 18-year-old Croatia defender Luka Vuskovic to Hamburg on a season-long loan, with manager Thomas Frank now looking to add another option at centre-back. (Standard, external)
Sunderland hope to convince West Ham centre-back Nayef Aguerd, 29, to join them but Marseille, AC Milan and AS Roma are all interested in the Morocco international. (Footmercato - in French, external)
Premier League newcomers Sunderland have also made a new offer worth £24m to Bologna for 27-year-old Colombia defender Jhon Lucumi. (Sky Sports, external)
Genoa are considering a late move to sign full-back Maxwel Cornet from West Ham after the Ivory Coast international impressed manager Patrick Vieira on loan during the second half of 2024-25 season. (Tuttomercatoweb - in Italian, external)
Bournemouth's 25-year-old Ivory Coast attacking midfielder Hamed Traore is set to join Marseille on loan, with an option to buy. (Footmercato - in French, external)
Wolves are interested in Genk striker Tolu Arokodare, the 24-year-old Nigeria international who was the top scorer in the Belgian top flight last season with 17 goals. (Sky Sports, external)
Sky Paper Talk
DAILY MIRROR
Liverpool are growing in confidence that they could seal a sensational late deal for Marc Guehi, with the Reds planning a £150m late dash as they plot an Alexander Isak move.
Chelsea have yet to bring forward a plan to enable Raheem Sterling to leave the club as they also look to offload players.
Chelsea will now consider sanctioning a loan move for Nicolas Jackson ahead of next week's transfer deadline - if the striker's suitors are willing to commit to purchasing him in any deal.
DAILY MAIL
Bruno Fernandes will be open to leaving Manchester United at the end of the season after so far rejecting strong interest from Saudi Arabia this summer.
Napoli are emerging as surprise suitors for Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo.
Arsenal have four more players - Piero Hincapie, Jon Martin, Arnau Martinez and Oscar Gloukh - on their transfer wishlist.
Real Betis are increasingly confident of finding an agreement with Manchester United over a loan for Antony.
THE SUN
Manchester United star Antony is so desperate to leave Old Trafford he has quit his mansion and is living in an airport hotel.
THE GUARDIAN
John Textor has registered his interest in Sheffield Wednesday with the owner, Dejphon Chansiri, and is poised for talks over a potential takeover of the troubled Championship club.
Leicester City Women have sacked Amandine Miquel as their manager, a week and a half before the Women's Super League begins.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Alexander Isak remains adamant he wants to leave Newcastle United despite the intervention of chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan who is keen to broker a deal to keep the striker at the club.
THE TIMES
Newcastle's pursuit of two new strikers is key to Alexander Isak's Newcastle future. A £130million offer may also tempt them to sell.
SCOTTISH SUN
Swansea City are eyeing a move for Celtic striker Adam Idah.
Celtic have launched a bid to sign Tunisia international winger Sebastian Tounekti.
Former Rangers ace Ryan Jack is being lined up for a return to Scottish football with Dundee.
Guardian Rumour mill
Tom Davies
Today’s tittle-tattle starts with a Manchester club scrabbling around to resolve their goalkeeping situation. City’s Ederson continues to attract interest from Galatasaray, and a move could unlock the departure of Gianluigi Donnarumma from Paris Saint-Germain to the Etihad, Sky Sports reports. Donnarumma’s people, PSG’s people and City’s people have been in contact to thrash out possible details, and further agreeable lunches are anticipated. As for Ederson, City say they want to keep him as well but while Al-Nassr’s interest in the Brazilian appears to have cooled Galatasaray remain keen and a deal could yet happen.
Thursday’s Newcastle striker talk has them moving for Roma’s Artem Dovbyk, initially on loan. The Serie A club are reportedly open to the move becoming permanent but would want at least €30m for the Ukraine international, and a purchase obligation clause in the small print of any loan deal.
It’s been a messy summer for West Ham but they could be seeking to tidy it all up a bit by signing Hull’s highly-rated goalkeeper Ivor Pandur to bolster a rearguard that’s shipped goals to all and sundry so far this season. The Croatian was Hull’s player of the year last term and would be a first-team contender at the London Stadium. Another keeper on the Hammers’ radar is Botafogo’s John Victor but the Brazilian club will want more than the £6m being touted as the fee.
On the way out of the London Stadium could be Nayef Aguerd, in whom Sunderland have shown strong interest, though Marseille, Milan and Roma also have eyes for the Moroccan defender. Aguerd could be joined in the West Ham departure lounge by Maxwel Cornet, headed for Genoa, for whom he impressed on loan last season. Sunderland meanwhile also fancy Bologna’s Colombian defender Jhon Lucimi and are prepared to prove it with an improved £24m bid.
Do we want to talk about Chelsea and Alejandro Garnacho again? OK, well Chelsea have reportedly now agreed personal terms with the Argentina winger in a deal that the Telegraph says is in the region of £35m-£40m.
Wolves are hoping to reinforce their attack with the Genk striker Tolu Arokodare, who was the top scorer in Belgium’s top flight last season with 17 goals. The Nigerian forward has two years remaining on his contract though so Wolves will need to pony up some cash to secure his services.
In the Championship, free-spending Birmingham are being linked with Celtic’s South Korean winger Yang Hyun-jun. He cost the Hoops only £2m two years ago so Birmingham may not have to delve too deeply into their voluminous pockets to snare him.
And finally, a bit of East Anglian transfer needle with Ipswich making a swoop for Norwich’s Marcelino Núñez. Ipswich are thought to have offered £10m (plus £2.5m in add-ons) of their parachute payment money for the midfielder, whose contract at Carrow Road expires next summer. The Norwich manager, Liam Manning, has insisted the Chilean is part of his plans, but plans can fall through and so often they do.
Guardian
West Ham in talks over selling stake in women’s team to US private equity fund
Proposed deal values Hammers’ WSL side at £55m
Buyers are largest women’s-dedicated sports fund
Exclusive by Matt Hughes
West Ham are in advanced talks over selling a stake in their women’s team to an American private equity fund dedicated to investing in women’s sport.
The Guardian has learned that Monarch Collective, of which the co‑founder set up Angel City FC before investing in the NWSL teams in San Diego and Boston, wants to buy up to 49% of the Women’s Super League club in a proposed deal that values the side at about £55m.
West Ham’s existing ownership group of David Sullivan, Daniel Kretinsky and the David Gold family is expected to retain a controlling interest. The club declined to comment.
West Ham would become the second WSL club to sell shares to American investors this year in a trend that reflects the competition’s growing global appeal, a position likely to be strengthened by the commercial benefits of England’s second successive European Championship win this summer.
Chelsea sold 10% of their women’s team to Alexis Ohanian, an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social media platform Reddit and is the husband of the tennis legend Serena Williams, for £20m in May in a deal that valued the WSL champions at £245m.
Aston Villa are believed to be in talks with US investors over potentially buying up to 10% of the women’s club after the remaining 90% was sold to Villa’s parent company, V Sports, controlled by their owners, Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens.
Monarch is understood to have held talks with Chelsea this year and to have approached West Ham after failing to close that deal, despite the club having a very different profile.
West Ham have played in the WSL since 2018 but have never finished in the top five and are the only top‑flight club linked to a men’s team not to have played a game at their men’s stadium in the past six years. West Ham are in dispute with the London Stadium landlord, E20, over the cost of renting the ground for a WSL fixture – a source of frustration for the club – and play at Dagenham & Redbridge’s 6,000-capacity Chigwell Construction Stadium.
Monarch is the largest women’s-dedicated sports fund in the world and would bring additional investment, including in the squad, and expertise. It would look to resolve the dispute with E20.
Monarch was founded by the venture capitalists Jasmine Robinson and Kara Nortman, who raised $150m in a funding round two years ago and have since raised a further $100m to invest in women’s sports. The company’s all-female investors include the philanthropist Melinda French Gates and the former Netflix executives Cindy Holland and Annie Imhoff.
Nortman was a co-founder of Angel City along with Ohanian, Natalie Portman and Julie Uhrman, and retained a small stake when the club were sold last year with a $250m valuation, a record for a women’s sports team. Monarch has since invested in San Diego Wave and the expansion club Boston Legacy FC, who will join the NSWL next year.
Ohanian is not an investor in Monarch so despite his previous business interests with Nortman at Angel City there is no conflict of interest if the company’s bid for West Ham succeeds.
West Ham’s women’s team have been the responsibility of three female directors since 2023: Karren Brady, Tara Warren and Nicola Keye. Monarch would make its own appointments to the leadership team.
The Athletic
West Ham agree deal for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes
By David Ornstein and Jacob Tanswell
West Ham have agreed a deal for Southampton midfielder Mateus Fernandes.
The deal is set to be worth £38million ($51.3m) with £3m worth of add-ons and a 15 per cent sell-on clause.
The 21-year-old Portugal youth international will be West Ham’s sixth signing of the summer, with the London side also in talks to sign midfielder Soungoutou Magassa from Monaco.
Fernandes joined Southampton in the summer of 2024 from Sporting CP and has made 46 appearances for the south-coast side that got relegated last season, scoring four goals and registering seven assists. He has played 36 times for Portugal’s youth teams up to under-21 level but is yet to make a senior international appearance.
Southampton were relegated from the Premier League last season with seven games still to play, only a year after their promotion.
West Ham have lost their opening three games of the 2025-26 season, two in the Premier League and one against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday. They are next in action away to Nottingham Forest on Sunday in the league.
(Photo: Pete Norton/Getty Images)
C&H
Potters Wish May Not be Granted as West Ham Line up Sully Special
West Ham could yet make a late move for a striker, despite reports earlier this summer suggesting Graham Potter was happy with his attacking options.
Hammers insider ExWHUEmployee has revealed that several forwards have been offered to the club by agents in recent days, with one name under serious consideration being Victor Boniface.
Boniface has been a West Ham target for over three years
The Nigerian forward is highly rated but comes with major risk due to his history of serious knee injuries.
Meanwhile, West Ham are also reported to be locked in talks over FC Midtjylland striker Franculino Dju. Both the Hammers and Italian side Como have submitted bids in the region of €15m, although the Danish club are holding out for more.
This all comes after the club publicly leaked that Potter had told the board he didn’t require further strikers—yet since then, West Ham have added Callum Wilson and could now return for more firepower before the window shuts.
Potter began this weeks EFL Cup loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers with no recognised strikers in his starting line-up. Niclas Fullkrug and Wilson were introduced late in the game in an effort to save the game but Callum Marshall remained an unused substitute.
Juve.com
Report: Juventus turn to affordable West Ham midfielder
Juventus have reportedly identified experienced West Ham United man Guido Rodriguez as a potential solution for their midfield dilemma.
The Bianconeri have already offloaded Douglas Luiz who joined Nottingham Forest, but they have yet to bring in reinforcement.
In recent months, the Serie A giants have been linked with various profiles, including Yves Bissouma, Morten Hjulmand, and Matt O’Riley, but they haven’t been able to make a breakthrough on any of these tracks. Hence, Damien Comolli and Francois Modest continue to explore potential solutions.
Juventus set sights on West Ham’s Guido Rodriguez
According to Tuttosport via IlBianconero, Rodriguez has become the latest name to land on Juve’s shortlist.
The 31-year-old is a River Plate youth product who went on to make a name for himself in Mexico with Club Tijuana and America.
In January 2020, the Argentinian finally arrived in Europe, signing for Real Betis. After four and a half successful years in Andalosia, he was close to joining Barcelona last summer, but the deal eventually fell through, and he ended up at West Ham.
The midfielder’s settling in East London wasn’t entirely smooth, so he only ended up making 24 appearances for the Hammers across all competitions.
Therefore, the Turin-based newspaper believes that West Ham would be willing to offload him for €10 million.
What to expect from Guido Rodriguez
Rodriguez’s style of play might not be appealing to the eye, but he has often been appreciated by managers his physicality, tactical discipline and never-say-die attitude. In Spain, he earned the nickname ‘little Gattuso’, which perfectly depicts his willingness to sacrifice himself for the cause.
The Sáenz Peña native is also a favourite of Argentina’s head coach, Lionel Scaloni. He was part of the squad that won back-to-back Copa America trophies in 2021 and 2024, and more importantly, the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
