{"id":641786,"date":"2026-05-01T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:09:08","slug":"football-gossip-joao-pedro-romero-mbaye-gordon-openda-hackney-rice-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641786\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Joao Pedro, Romero, Mbaye, Gordon, Openda, Hackney, Rice, Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona eye Chelsea<\/a>‘s Joao Pedro and Tottenham<\/a>‘s Cristian Romero, Aston Villa<\/a> want Paris St-Germain’s Ibrahim Mbaye, Leeds United<\/a> and Coventry City battle for Lois Openda and Anthony Gordon’s team are in contact with Bayern Munich. <\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> and Brazil striker Joao Pedro, 24, is Barcelona’s preferred candidate to replace 37-year-old Poland striker Robert Lewandowski who is set to leave the club at the end of the season. (Marca – in Spanish, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> are monitoring Paris St-Germain and Senegal forward Ibrahim Mbaye, 18, with the Premier League club set to target younger players this summer. (Mail, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Barcelona might turn their attention to 28-year-old Tottenham<\/a> and Argentina defender Cristian Romero if their move to sign Italy centre-back Alessandro Bastoni, 27, from Inter Milan proves unsuccessful. (AS – in Spanish, external<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> are open to selling 22-year-old English winger Tommi O’Reilly, who is on loan at League Two club Crewe Alexandra, amid growing interest from Oxford United, Portsmouth and Huddersfield Town. (Mail, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Coventry City, who have won promotion to the Premier League, will battle Leeds United<\/a> for the signature of 26-year-old Belgium and RB Leipzig striker Lois Openda, who is on loan at Serie A side Juventus. (Sport Witness, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> and England winger Anthony Gordon’s management have been in contact with Bayern Munich for months, with manager Vincent Kompany already approving a move for the 25-year-old. (Florian Plettenberg, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hayden Hackney is inching closer to a Premier League transfer with Brighton<\/a> joining Nottingham Forest<\/a> in the battle to sign the 23-year-old former England Under-21s midfielder from Middlesbrough. (Football Insider, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest<\/a>, Aston Villa<\/a> and Crystal Palace<\/a> are all pushing to secure the signing of Rangers’ 19-year-old Scottish midfielder Bailey Rice. (Teamtalk, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> are to step up their pursuit of Manchester City<\/a> and England goalkeeper James Trafford, 23, as a potential replacement for 33-year-old Argentina keeper Emiliano Martinez. (Football Insider, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

German manager Hansi Flick, 61, is set to sign a two-year extension at Barcelona with the details of his new contract to be finalised next week. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona eye Chelsea‘s Joao Pedro and Tottenham‘s Cristian Romero, Aston Villa want Paris St-Germain’s Ibrahim Mbaye, Leeds United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-641786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641786","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=641786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}