Arsenal have had a £17.6m bid rejected for Juventus winger Juan Cuadrado, 29, but the Serie A champions are looking for around £30m for the former Chelsea player.
( Sun )

The Gunners have also made a £10.5m bid for Fenerbahce centre-back Simon Kjaer, 28, who is also wanted by city rivals AC and Inter Milan.
( Turksvoetbal )

Meanwhile, Inter Milan winger Ivan Perisic, 28, is already planning for life as a Manchester United player. The two clubs are yet to agree a fee for the £44m-rated Croatian.
( Manchester Evening News )

Chelsea wish to patch things up with Costa, 28, who is willing to discuss his future, but manager Conte is refusing to back down. (Sun) Also at Chelsea, contract negotiations with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, 25, have stalled over his wage demands. The Belgian is currently on a £100,000-a-week deal, which comes to an end in two years' time.
( Times )

Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, 27, remains a target for Everton despite the Merseyside club signing Dutchman Davy Klaassen.
( Wales Online )

Liverpool want to raise around £60m on player sales by offloading defender Mamadou Sakho, 27, for £30m, full-back Alberto Moreno, 24, for £12m and 23-year-old forward Lazar Markovic for £20m.
( Times )

Cristiano Ronaldo, 32, has told Real Madrid he wants to leave Spain and his decision is "irreversible".
(A Bola)

Real Madrid insist they want £78m for striker Alvaro Morata, 24, despite the vast majority of the details of a "hugely attractive package" being agreed with Manchester United.
( Independent )

After completing a deal for defender Victor Lindelof, Manchester United could go back to Benfica to sign £15m-rated midfielder Anderson Talisca, 23, who spent last season on loan at Besiktas.
( Daily Mirror )

Manchester City striker Patrick Roberts, 20, who scored 11 goals on loan at Celtic last season, has held talks with French side Nice over another loan move.
( Sun )

Tottenham are one of a number of clubs interested in signing Lazio forward Keita Balde, 22, who is valued at £30m by the Serie A club.
( Daily Mirror )

However former Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel has ruled himself out of the Southampton vacancy.
( Sky Sports )

Stoke would want more than the British record £30m Everton paid to sign Jordan Pickford, if they were to sell goalkeeper Jack Butland, 24 - though insist the England international is not for sale.
( Stoke Sentinel )

Several Premier League clubs, most notably Newcastle, have enquired about Valencia's £13.1m-rated centre-back Aymen Abdennour, 27.
( Foot Mercato )

French Ligue 1 side Paris St-Germain have ended their pursuit of Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 27, as the club's new sporting director Antero Henrique deems the £61m-rated player to be too expensive.
( Goal )

Marseille are trying to sign full-back Bacary Sagna, 34, who is a free agent after being released by Manchester City.
( Daily Mirror )

AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, 18, has rejected the club's offer of a new £80,000-a-week contract. His current deal expires in 2018.
(Gazzetta dello Sport)

MANAGEMENT STUFF

There is "mutual tension" between Chelsea and their manager Antonio Conte after the Italian's decision to tell striker Diego Costa by text message that he is not part of the plans for next season.
( Gazzetta dello Sport )

Conte has also set a number of conditions which include a direct line of communication to owner Roman Abramovich, control over coaching appointments and the academy, as well as improved financial terms, if he is to stay as manager at Stamford Bridge.
( Daily Record )

Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare has made a bid to appoint Oxford manager Michael Appleton as his assistant.
( Daily Mail )

Southampton intend to interview former Ajax boss Frank de Boer and ex-Valencia manager Mauricio Pellegrino to replace the sacked Claude Puel and hope to make an appointment by the end of next week.
(Daily Telegraph)

However former Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel has ruled himself out of the Southampton vacancy.
(Sky Sports)

OTHER STORIES

A hair restoration company has tweeted images of Wales midfielder Joe Ledley - a free agent after being released by Crystal Palace - undergoing surgery for a hair transplant.
( KSL Hair )

Manchester United full-back Matteo Darmian has returned to Italy... as he married his long-term fiancee at a ceremony close to his home town of Legnano.
( Sun )

Darmian's new team-mate, defender Victor Lindelof, headed to a well-known Chinese restaurant in Manchester after sealing a £31m move to Old Trafford.
(Daily Mail)