{"id":813206,"date":"2026-07-20T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813206\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:39:11","slug":"football-gossip-kone-summerville-williams-torres-diop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813206\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Kone, Summerville, Williams, Torres, Diop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> and Arsenal<\/a> fight over France’s Manu Kone, Nico Williams could be heading to the Premier League champions, and West Ham reject latest Crysencio Summerville offer.<\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> lead the chase for Roma and France midfielder Manu Kone, 25, but face competition for his signature from Arsenal<\/a>. (L’Equipe – in French), external<\/a><\/p>\n

The Gunners have also revived their interest in Athletic Club winger Nico Williams, who was part of Spain’s World Cup-winning squad, with the 23-year-old believed to have a \u00a377m release clause. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

West Ham have rejected a second offer from Roma for Dutch forward Crysencio Summerville and the Italian club, whose first bid was 46m euros (\u00a339m), are working on a final proposal for the 24-year-old. (Sky Sports Italia – in Italian) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> are weighing up a move for Summerville as they look to replace 23-year-old England attacking midfielder Morgan Rogers, who is set to join Chelsea<\/a>. (Talksport), external<\/a> <\/p>\n

Barcelona have set up a meeting with 26-year-old forward Ferran Torres, who scored Spain’s winner in the World Cup final against Argentina, to find out what his plans are with one year left on his contract and interest from Paris St-Germain. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Ipswich Town<\/a> have agreed a deal to sign 29-year-old Morocco centre-back Issa Diop from Fulham<\/a> for about 10m euros (\u00a38.5m). (Foot Mercato – in French), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> and Leeds<\/a> are among the Premier League clubs weighing up a move for FC Midtjylland striker Franculino Dju, 22, with the Danish club seeking in excess of \u00a321m for the Guinea-Bissau international. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

AC Milan have identified young Genk winger Konstantinos Karetsas, 18, as their next summer transfer target but may have to sell Portugal forward Rafael Leao, 27, to fund the move. (Gazzetta – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United and Arsenal fight over France’s Manu Kone, Nico Williams could be heading to the Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-813206","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\/813206","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=813206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}