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Paris St-Germain defender David Luiz could be in line for a shock return to Chelsea. The Premier League club have offered £30m plus add-ons for the Brazil international, who left Stamford Bridge for France two years ago in a £50m deal. (Sky Sports)[3]
David Luiz’s return to London will cost Chelsea £32m. (Daily Mail)[4]
England midfielder Jack Wilshere, 24, is set to complete a season-long loan deal with Crystal Palace. The Gunners received 22 offers from clubs in England and in Europe for Wilshere. (Daily Mirror)[5]
Or Wilshere could join Serie A club AC Milan. The Rossoneri have offered a season-long loan deal at the San Siro – with a £30m option to buy the player. (Sun)[6]
<!–Chelsea will complete a £23m move for Fiorentina’s Spanish full-back Marcos Alonso, 25, and will look to the loan market for another central defender. (Telegraph)[7]
Tottenham have offered to take Real Madrid midfielder Isco, 24, on a season-long loan. (Daily Mirror)[8]
The Spain midfielder has been told he should leave the Bernabeu after falling down the pecking order, with a return to former club Malaga his preferred destination (AS)[9]
Burnley are poised to sign Derby County midfielder Jeff Hendrick, 24. The Republic of Ireland international will cost the Clarets a club record fee in excess of £10m. (Daily Mail)[10]
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is furious at German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, 32, for rejecting a free transfer to Sporting Lisbon. (Daily Star)[11]
Valencia have made an offer to sign Manchester United’s Argentina defender Marcos Rojo, 26, on loan. (Squawka)[12]
West Brom will bid £32m for Watford’s Nigeria striker Odion Ighalo, 27. Manager Tony Pulis will use the sale of English striker Saido Berahino, 23 – set to move to Stoke – to part-fund the purchase. (Mirror)[13]
Spurs are also targeting Newcastle United’s France midfielder Moussa Sissoko, 27. (Telegraph)[14]
<!–Leicester City are still hopeful of signing two Sporting Lisbon players – Algeria striker Islam Slimani, 28, and Portugal midfielder Adrien Silva, 27, – before the transfer deadline. (Leicester Mercury)[15]
Sunderland could break their transfer record for £17m-rated Lorient and Gabon midfielder Didier Ndong, 22. (Sunderland Echo)[16]
David Moyes is also eyeing a deal for Paul Pogba’s brother, Guinea international Florentin, 26. Moyes will offer £6.5m for the St Etienne defender. (Sun)[17]
Everton’s hopes of signing Ivory Coast defender Lamine Kone, 27, could rest on Sunderland’s interest in Liverpool’s out-of-favour France centre-half Mamadou Sakho, 26. (Liverpool Echo)[18]
Stoke City are closing in on signing Dutch international Bruno Martins Indi, 24, on loan from Porto. (Stoke Sentinel)[19]
Manchester City’s France defender Eliaquim Mangala, 25, is on the verge of a two-season loan back to Porto. (Manchester Evening News)[20]
Manchester City have agreed to allow French winger Samir Nasri, 29, to join Sevilla on loan. (Sky Sports)[21]
Crystal Palace are close to signing Venezuela midfielder Tomas Rincon, 28, from Genoa. (Croydon Advertiser)[22]
Tottenham have rejected Wolfsburg’s £24m offer for South Korea winger Son Heung-min, 24. (Sun)[23]
Juventus will sign Zenit St Petersburg and Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel, 27, for more than £15m. (Gazzetta)[24]
Best of social media
Mesut Ozil has tweeted a video of his new Arsenal team-mate Shkodran Mustafi dancing with fellow Gunner Per Mertesacker, while the trio were on international duty. He added the caption: “I hope to see more of those dance moves @Arsenal soon @MustafiOfficial @mertesacker #GermanGunners.”[25]
An Arsenal fan who on 12 August had posted: “Tell you what, if we sign Mustafi i’ll give everyone that RT’s this £20”, received a reply from the Gunners after they signed Shkodran Mustafi. The tweet[26] included a video of the German saying: “Hi, I hope you don’t regret the tweet.”
Roma goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who is on loan from Arsenal, has welcomed Joe Hart to Serie A on Instagram, after the England number one arrived at Torino. [27]
Calum Chambers tweeted[28] his excitement at joining Middlesbrough on loan from Arsenal.
All was not what it seemed when Scottish League One side Queen’s Park tweeted this….
<!–That is because former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had returned to the first club he played for to launch their 150th anniversary kit.[29]
And finally…
Cadiz, in Spain’s second tier, have signed Sergio Aguero’s brother Gaston Castillo and the Argentine bears a striking resemblance to his famous older sibling. (Cadiz official website)[30]
Swansea City’s new signing Alfie Mawson will be missed by one Barnsley fan. Mawson struck up a friendship with four-year-old Alfie Ledgeway, who suffers from a variety of illnesses, while at the Yorkshire club. (WalesOnline)[31]
References
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- ^ (Sky Sports) (www.skysports.com)
- ^ (Daily Mail) (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ (Daily Mirror) (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ (Sun) (www.thesun.co.uk)
- ^ (Telegraph) (www.telegraph.co.uk)
- ^ (Daily Mirror) (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ (AS) (en.as.com)
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- ^ (Squawka) (www.squawka.com)
- ^ (Mirror) (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ (Telegraph) (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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- ^ (Sunderland Echo) (www.sunderlandecho.com)
- ^ (Sun) (www.thesun.co.uk)
- ^ (Liverpool Echo) (www.liverpoolecho.co.uk)
- ^ (Stoke Sentinel) (www.stokesentinel.co.uk)
- ^ (Manchester Evening News) (www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
- ^ (Sky Sports) (www.skysports.com)
- ^ (Croydon Advertiser) (www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk)
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