{"id":796241,"date":"2026-07-12T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:36:11","slug":"football-gossip-alvarez-manzambi-guardiola-kane-muharemovic-wharton-garnacho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796241\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Alvarez, Manzambi, Guardiola, Kane, Muharemovic, Wharton, Garnacho"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> want to sign Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez, Aston Villa<\/a> hijack Newcastle<\/a>‘s move for Johan Manzambi, and Pep Guardiola is on the shortlist to become Italy manager<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> are attempting to sign Atletico Madrid and Argentina striker Julian Alvarez, 26, before pre-season begins. (Independent), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> are finalising a move for Freiburg and Switzerland midfielder Johan Manzambi, 20, who was on course to join Newcastle<\/a>. (Athletic – requires subscription) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/a>‘s former Spanish boss Pep Guardiola, 57, is on the shortlist to become the new Italy manager after Paulo Maldini was appointed as the country’s technical head. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Bayern Munich remain confident they will tie England striker Harry Kane, 32, down to a new long-term contract despite growing interest from some of Europe’s biggest clubs including Real Madrid. (TeamTalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Sassuolo defender Tarik Muharemovic remains a target for Premier League clubs with Newcastle<\/a>, Sunderland<\/a>, Leeds<\/a> and Bournemouth<\/a> all keen on the 23-year-old Bosnia-Herzegovina international. (Corriere dello Sport via Football Italia), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> are looking at a move for Crystal Palace<\/a> and England midfielder Adam Wharton after Liverpool<\/a> and Manchester United<\/a> both cooled their interest in the 22-year-old. (Caught Offside), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Roma want 22-year-old Chelsea<\/a> and Argentina winger Alejandro Garnacho and are also interested in Belgium winger Diego Moreira, 21, from Chelsea<\/a>‘s sister club Strasbourg. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a>‘s Czech goalkeeper Radek Vitek, 22, is wanted by Celtic after some impressive displays on loan at Bristol City last season. (Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Atalanta have held discussions with Ederson over extending his contract after a deal to move to Manchester United<\/a> broke down. Newcastle<\/a> are still interested in the 27-year-old Brazil midfielder. (L’Eco di Bergamo – in Italian) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunderland<\/a> are aiming to make Roma’s 23-year-old Argentinian winger Matias Soule their first signing of the summer. He is valued at around \u20ac35m (\u00a330m) (Northern Echo), external<\/a> <\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> have held talks over Parma and Japan goalkeeper Zion Suzuki, 23, as they look to secure a new main goalkeeper. (Newcastle Chronicle), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a> and Newcastle<\/a> are both interested in Manchester City<\/a>‘s 27-year-old Egypt midfielder Omar Marmoush. (TeamTalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal want to sign Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez, Aston Villa hijack Newcastle‘s move for Johan Manzambi, and Pep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-796241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796241","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=796241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}