The top stories and transfer rumours from Sunday’s newspapers… <\/p>\n
PREMIER LEAGUE<\/p>\n
Manchester United are set to explore options for a long-term successor to their skipper, Bruno Fernandes, and West Ham ace Mateus Fernandes is on the shortlist \u2013 Sun on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Egyptian football legend Mohamed Aboutrika has claimed former team-mate Mo Salah’s reason for leaving Liverpool is his poor relationship with Arne Slot – Sunday Mirror.<\/p>\n
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Chelsea are in talks to sign Valentin Barco from sister club Strasbourg – talkSPORT<\/p>\n
Michael Owen has backed Xabi Alonso to take over at Liverpool if Arne Slot fails to secure Champions League football – Star on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Liverpool star Dominik Szoboszlai was dragged away by a team-mate after appearing to have a nervous interaction with some travelling fans – Sun on Sunday.<\/p>\n
OTHER FOOTBALL<\/p>\n
Former Manchester United and England star Wayne Rooney, who is currently working as a TV pundit, is open to getting back into football management for the start of next season – Sun on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Neymar’s hopes of making Brazil’s World Cup squad have been put at further risk amid reports he faces a 10-match ban over controversial comments he made about a referee – Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Former Chelsea midfielder Oscar has retired from football months after being diagnosed with a fainting issue. The Athletic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top stories and transfer rumours from Sunday’s newspapers… PREMIER LEAGUE Manchester United are set to explore options…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-585956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}