{"id":100354,"date":"2025-10-24T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/100354\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:13:07","slug":"football-gossip-santos-rashford-woltemade-guehi-zirkzee-kovacic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/100354\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Santos, Rashford, Woltemade, Guehi, Zirkzee, Kovacic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United have identified a six-man midfield shortlist including Chelsea&#8217;s Andrey Santos, Newcastle United&#8217;s Nick Woltemade has ambitions of playing for Bayern Munich, while the German champions could join the race for Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United are open to signing two new midfielders in 2026, with Chelsea&#8217;s 21-year-old Brazil international Andrey Santos among a six-man shortlist that also includes Brighton and Cameroon 21-year-old Carlos Baleba. <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/3672030\/man-united-midfielder-shortlist-transfer-news\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Talksport), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, 27, wants to stay at Barcelona beyond his season-long loan at the Spanish club, who have an option to sign the England international on a permanent deal at the end of the campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46697555\/marcus-rashford-previous-barcelona-man-united-transfer-talks-loan\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(ESPN), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle United&#8217;s 23-year-old Germany striker Nick Woltemade still hopes to play for Bayern Munich in the future. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/sport\/fussball\/habe-ich-gehoert-bayern-reizt-woltemade-immer-noch-68fa2c5e59e2e09750709739\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Bild &#8211; in German), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crystal Palace&#8217;s England centre-back Marc Guehi, 25, is one of Bayern Munich&#8217;s preferred defensive targets, alongside Borussia Dortmund and Germany&#8217;s 25-year-old Nico Schlotterbeck, should France international Dayot Upamecano, 26, not extend his contract or if South Korea&#8217;s Kim Min-jae, 28, is sold. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1981398095259697192\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Sky Sports Germany), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton are ready to move to re-sign Brazil forward Richarlison, with Tottenham considering putting the 28-year-old on the market in January. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/spurs-increasingly-likely-sell-forward-everton-ready-pounce-sources\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TeamTalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have identified a six-man midfield shortlist including Chelsea&#8217;s Andrey Santos, Newcastle United&#8217;s Nick Woltemade has ambitions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-100354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}