Premier League: Latest transfer news and rumours. 31 July 2024

Latest transfer news and rumours from today’s newspapers.

Tuesday 30th July 2024

• Manchester United are closing in on signing Bayern Munich’s Noussair Mazraoui after agreeing a fee of between £15m and £20m for the right-back, with a potential stumbling block the need to sell Aaron Wan-Bissaka to finance the transfer.
• Christian Eriksen wants to play for the next three years at the highest level but the Manchester United midfielder admits he may in time countenance dropping to a lower standard – potentially even into park football. The Dane signed for United in July 2022 and his contract expires in June.
• Chelsea outcast Romelu Lukaku is set to return to the club’s training ground to begin his preparations for the new season with stars not included in the Blues’ USA pre-season tour squad.
• Barcelona have launched a new offer to land Manchester City’s Joao Cancelo.
• Christian Eriksen believes Manchester United have learned their lesson from last summer’s overloaded US tour by putting football first during their stay in Los Angeles.
• Arsenal are reportedly stepping up their pursuit of a new midfielder after welcoming Riccardo Calafiori to the Emirates Stadium.
• Arne Slot is using Liverpool’s pre-season tour to assess his players before making recruitment and retention decisions after rejecting a bid for Wataru Endo.
• Eddie Howe has expressed his delight that Bruno Guimaraes remains a Newcastle United player after a June deadline passed with no rival club activating a £100m release clause in the Brazil international’s contract.
• Jack Grealish says his exclusion from the England squad for the summer’s European Championship left him “heartbroken” and that the experience was the toughest of his football career.
• Chelsea duo Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Nicolas Jackson are being lined up to play their first minutes of pre-season this week.
• Amanda Staveley says she is open to investing in another football club following her exit from Newcastle United.
• Real Sociedad president Jokin Aperribay says Arsenal target Mikel Merino has had a contract offer on the table for over a year.
• Nottingham Forest’s player of the season Murillo has declared his commitment to the club and is focused on staying for at least another year.
• Aaron Anselmino has hailed his imminent move to Chelsea as a “dream”.
• David Pleat will no longer be part of Tottenham’s scouting department.
• Lucas Bergvall has provided a promising update after suffering a pre-season injury scare for Tottenham.
• Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna is a shock contender for the England job.
• Julian Alvarez has admitted he is not happy being left out of the biggest Manchester City games.
• Napoli are open to including Romelu Lukaku in discussions with Chelsea over Victor Osimhen, with the Serie A side keen to wrap up a move for the Belgium striker.