{"id":184189,"date":"2025-10-02T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184189\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:25:07","slug":"football-gossip-bentancur-olise-saka-ward-prowse-gomez-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184189\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Bentancur, Olise, Saka, Ward-Prowse, Gomez, Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham close to agreeing new contract with Rodrigo Bentancur, Manchester City and Real Madrid are monitoring Bayern Munich&#8217;s Michael Olise, Arsenal will offer Bukayo Saka more than \u00a3250,000-a-week to extend his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham are set to agree a new contract with 28-year-old Uruguay midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur, whose current deal runs out in the summer of 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6679116\/2025\/10\/01\/tottenham-confident-on-agreeing-new-rodrigo-bentancur-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Athletic &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City and Real Madrid are monitoring France winger Michael Olise as Bayern Munich consider offering the 23-year-old an improved deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-city\/michael-olise-real-madrid-bayern-munich\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Teamtalk), external<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal are willing to pay 24-year-old England forward Bukayo Saka, whose contract runs out in the summer of 2027, more then \u00a3250,000-a-week. <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/3600207\/transfer-notebook-arsenal-bukayo-saka-michael-carrick-man-utd-west-ham\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Talksport), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southampton are planning to offer West Ham&#8217;s English midfielder James Ward-Prowse, 30, the chance to return to St Mary&#8217;s in January. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/southampton-transfer-news-plotting-sensational-move-resign-james-ward-prowse-st-marys\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(GiveMesport), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich intend to keep on-loan Chelsea and Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson, 24, on a permanent basis even if the conditions for an obligation to buy on his deal is not met. <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/bayern-munich-have-already-decided-whether-to-make-nicolas-jacksons-loan-deal-permanent\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TBR Football), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea are confident they will be able to sign 30-year-old AC Milan and France goalkeeper Mike Maignan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asromalive.it\/2025\/09\/30\/rilancio-chelsea-e-addio-svilar-lincastro-si-chiude-in-serie-a\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(ASRomalive &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham, West Ham and Nottingham Forest are interested in Parma&#8217;s 23-year-old Argentinian striker Mateo Pellegrino, but the Italian club do not want to sell him before next summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parmalive.com\/mercato\/i-tuttosport-i-in-estate-il-parma-ha-rifiutato-un-offerta-di-15-milioni-per-pellegrino-240756\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TuttoSport via Parma Live &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool could be willing to let England defender Joe Gomez leave in January &#8211; as long as they can find a replacement &#8211; with AC Milan interested in the 28-year-old. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/10\/01\/joe-gomez-transfer-milan\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Caughtoffside), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having had a loan enquiry rejected on transfer deadline day, Porto are closely monitoring 19-year-old Brighton and England Under-21 winger Tommy Watson. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/exclusive-porto-plot-new-move-for-brighton-star-tommy-watson-after-deal-rejected\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AC Milan are interested in 37-year-old Barcelona and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuttomercatoweb.com\/serie-a\/milan-su-robert-lewandowski-in-spagna-sono-sicuri-tare-ha-gia-parlato-con-l-agente-2152219\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sport via Tuttomercatoweb &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina striker Julian Alvarez, 25, says he is not letting speculation with Barcelona affect him and is focused on &#8220;winning&#8221; at Atletico Madrid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46447071\/atletico-madrid-julian-alvarez-barcelona-rumours-people-talk\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(ESPN), external<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham close to agreeing new contract with Rodrigo Bentancur, Manchester City and Real Madrid are monitoring Bayern Munich&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-184189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}