{"id":947930,"date":"2026-10-27T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947930\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:18:20","slug":"football-gossip-valera-nmecha-sarr-vuskovic-howe-scott-sage-dyche-arorkodare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947930\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Valera, Nmecha, Sarr, Vuskovic, Howe, Scott, Sage, Dyche, Arorkodare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portuguese striker Gustavo Varela is on Arsenal<\/a>‘s radar, Crystal Palace<\/a> want to keep winger Ismaila Sarr, Brighton<\/a> defender Luka Vuskovic receives admiring glances from some of Europe’s biggest clubs.<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> and Napoli are keen on Monza’s in-form Portuguese striker Gustavo Varela, 21, along with his former club Benfica. (Gazzetta dello Sport via Calciomercato – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Crystal Palace<\/a> are reluctant to sell 28-year-old Senegal winger Ismaila Sarr in January after holding talks over a new contract. Sarr wanted to join Liverpool<\/a> in the summer. (Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Brighton<\/a> and Croatia defender Luka Vuskovic, 19, continues to draw serious interest from Europe’s elite, with Liverpool<\/a>, Real Madrid and Barcelona joining the chase for the centre-back. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> hold Germany midfielder Felix Nmecha, 26, of Borussia Dortmund in high regard but he is not considered a priority transfer target. (Florian Plettenberg, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Former Newcastle<\/a> boss Eddie Howe may insist on bringing his complete backroom staff should he receive an approach from Manchester United<\/a> over their manager’s position. (Express), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> would have to pay a hefty \u00a36m in compensation to Newcastle<\/a> to land Howe under the terms of his departure from St James’ Park. (Telegraph – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a> owner Bill Foley has sanctioned another club record contract offer for England midfielder Alex Scott, 23, with Chelsea<\/a>, Liverpool<\/a>, Arsenal<\/a> and Tottenham<\/a> all monitoring developments. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> have been told they will have to pay more than \u00a370m to sign Newcastle<\/a> left-back Lewis Hall, 22. (Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Ajax want to sign Wolves and Nigeria striker Tolu Arokodare on a permanent basis. The 25-year-old is currently on loan at the Eredivisie club. (Sport Witness), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Crystal Palace<\/a> will look to appoint a manager who is currently out of work if they decide to sack Frenchman Pierre Sage. (Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Former Brentford<\/a> and Tottenham<\/a> boss Thomas Frank and ex-Burnley, Everton<\/a> and Nottingham Forest<\/a> manager Sean Dyche are contenders if Crystal Palace<\/a> decide to dispense with Sage. (The I – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portuguese striker Gustavo Varela is on Arsenal‘s radar, Crystal Palace want to keep winger Ismaila Sarr, Brighton defender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-947930","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\/947930","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=947930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}