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West Ham poised to seal £17.5m Cornet signing, Telles joins Sevilla on loan | Transfer window

West Ham are poised to signal Maxwel Cornet from Burnley after assembly his £17.5m launch clause. The Ivory Coast ahead has additionally been a goal for Everton, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest. Cornet turned a precedence goal for West Ham after Filip Kostic, one other left-sided participant, indicated he was reluctant to affix from Eintracht Frankfurt. Cornet signed for Burnley from Lyon final August and scored 9 objectives and arrange one other within the Premier League final season. West Ham are going through disappointment of their try to purchase Amadou Onana after Everton matched their €40m (£33.5m) bid for the Lille midfielder in a late try and hijack David Moyes’s transfer. West Ham had their provide accepted by the French membership and are attributable to talk about private phrases with the Belgium worldwide. However Everton have additionally met Lille’s asking value for the 20-year-old – an preliminary €35m plus €5m in add-ons – and the indications are Onana would favour a transfer to Goodison Park. Everton’s supervisor, Frank Lampard, is eager to signal two midfielders and the membership have held talks over re-signing Idrissa Gana Gueye from Paris Saint-Germain. Manchester United left-back Alex Telles has accomplished…

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Football transfer rumours: Ziyech to Man Utd, Chelsea back in for De Jong? | Transfer window

Chelsea have re-entered the race to signal Manchester United’s prime switch goal Frenkie de Jong. The powers-that-be at Outdated Trafford have been courting the Barcelona playmaker for quite a lot of months now, with the brand new Dutch head coach Erik ten Hag significantly eager to signal his compatriot. United reportedly had an oven-ready £71million deal on the desk, however De Jong is now rumoured to choose a transfer to south-west London for an opportunity to play Champions League soccer. Chelsea are additionally stated to be pondering a deal for Barça’s former Arsenal objective poacher Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. In the meantime, pesky soccer journalists in all places are enthusiastically fanning the flames of the brewing bust-up between Ten Hag and Cristiano Ronaldo, who was seen leaving final Sunday’s pleasant in opposition to Rayo Vallecano earlier than full-time. Ten Hag called that “unacceptable”, and the rising query now appears to be: who desires to signal C-Ron? The Serie A facet Napoli have emerged as contenders, whereas reviews in Spain say Atlético Madrid wouldn’t thoughts him, both, however must promote somebody earlier than they’ll accommodate the unassuming 37-year-old. Amid the Ronaldo furore, towering Stuttgart ahead Sasa Kalajdzic has…

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‘I had to wait’: Chelsea’s Koulibaly on realising his Premier League dream | Chelsea

Throughout his profession Kalidou Koulibaly has needed to study to be affected person. Rejected by Metz at 15 for being “too introverted”, within the phrases of the membership’s academy head Denis Schaeffer, the towering defender who grew up in northeastern France to Senegalese dad and mom spent two years taking part in novice soccer for Saint-Dié earlier than lastly being invited again to Metz. Greater than a decade on and having arrived at Chelsea last month for £33.8m after eight years with Napoli the place he established himself as one of many world’s greatest defenders, Koulibaly definitely couldn’t be accused of being an introvert nowadays. Fluent in 4 languages after choosing up English throughout his spell at Genk in Belgium, the 31-year-old insists he “by no means stopped believing” he might fulfil his childhood dream of taking part in within the Premier League and makes no secret of the very fact his transfer to Stamford Bridge has been a number of years within the making after Antonio Conte first tried to signal him in 2015. “I spoke with Conte in Rome – he wished me after my first good 12 months in Napoli,” Koulibaly remembers.…

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