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As I always repeat, footballers are friends but it doesn’t mean anything about substitutions.
Just because Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jude Bellingham were spotted having dinner together… nothing more to say.
They are best friends and of course.
Real Madrid are monitoring Trent’s condition as reported in March and the situation has not changed at all so far.
Aston Villa dream of João Félix.
He is a target, especially for Unai Emery who is a big fan of the player and would like to work with him.
It’s still early, nothing is developing now, but it’s worth watching.
Let me be clear guys that it is a complicated contract because it is very expensive in terms of money and money, but Villa wants to try.
Despite the rumours, I don’t know that Noussair Mazraoui prefers to move to West Ham over Man United.
Man United still have Aaron Wan-Bissaka and need him to go first to bring in a new right back.
The situation at the time of writing is that West Ham can make a deal now that they have agreed with Bayern, but it is still working on the players’ side.
It is also true that Wan-Bissaka would like to move to Italy but at the moment it is not something developed or concrete.
The idea given to the mediators from April/May was a swap deal with Inter’s Denzel Dumfries, but the agents are just trying to do a deal for two players who are out of contract in 2025.
Guys, I keep repeating that Barça is currently focusing on Nico Williams.
Barça want Nico Williams as their priority and all their efforts will try to make a deal.
They are waiting for Nico’s final approval and for La Liga to give the green light to the deal, to be announced at any time.
Dani Olmo remains Barça’s favorite, but it will only be discussed after Nico’s story is clarified.
Sticking to Barça, and this is an important topic; Vitor Roque.
Al-Hilal has contacted Barcelona and the player’s camp, and they are ready to start negotiations with Barça.
It is not right to say that there is an agreement between Al-Hilal and Barça, but there are ongoing contacts between the clubs, and Al-Hilal is really interested in Vitor Roque.
The new rule in Saudi Arabia allows the club to have two players under the age of 21 and it is very important to have young talent in the team.
Now Al-Hilal is trying and it may be important for Barça and Financial Fair Play, because it is clear that it will help Barcelona a lot with their movement – but it depends on the player.
Vitor Roque had a chance last year to go to Man United, to go to Italian clubs, he had many opportunities – and he decided to go to Barcelona. Now, a year later, he has to decide whether he wants to go to Saudi Arabia or not.
It depends on the player, it depends on his agent, it depends on his staff, but the interest of Al-Hilal is there so let’s see if it will be something close or tangible.
I don’t know anything new between Chelsea and Victor Osimhen.
What I wanted to say is that Victor Osimhen, first of all, wants to leave Napoli, and Napoli’s intention remains to sign Romelu Lukaku, so this is the plan.
What is happening with Osimhen now? Paris Saint-Germain have no intention of accepting the first two terms that Napoli discussed with them last week.
About seven days ago, Napoli asked Kang-in Lee to be part of the deal and PSG said no. Then Napoli asked PSG to pay the release clause, and PSG said no.
So if the price goes down, we can still consider PSG as an option, because Victor Osimhen would like to go to PSG and he gave them the green light 10 days ago.
I can also tell you that there is no business between Chelsea and Villarreal for Filip Jörgensen.
According to what I was told, the goalkeeper wants to go to Chelsea and Chelsea is working on that.
They offered 20 million euros but Villarreal want 25 million euros, so it’s a really small gap.
Negotiations will likely continue next week, but there is a good chance of a deal.
He has been tested for months, the same with Italian clubs such as Roma who have also been monitoring him.
At the moment, nothing is close or developed.
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