{"id":197390,"date":"2025-12-17T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197390\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:55:08","slug":"football-gossip-zirkzee-torres-boey-mainoo-wharton-guehi-fullkrug-gimenez-woltemade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197390\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Zirkzee, Torres, Boey, Mainoo, Wharton, Guehi, Fullkrug, Gimenez, Woltemade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> and Roma reach stalemate over Joshua Zirkzee deal, Barcelona eye Aston Villa<\/a>‘s Pau Torres, Crystal Palace<\/a> want Bayern Munich defender Sacha Boey and AC Milan in talks with West Ham<\/a> over Niclas Fullkrug transfer. <\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> and Roma are miles apart in their valuation of Joshua Zirkzee, 24, with the Premier League club demanding a fee of around \u00a335m and reluctant to sanction a loan move for the Netherlands striker. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Barcelona are eager to extend the contract of Hansi Flick to 2028 despite the 60-year-old German manager only signing a new deal with the Spanish champions until 2027 in May this year. (Bild – in German), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Barcelona are also looking at Aston Villa<\/a>‘s 28-year-old Spain defender Pau Torres and Borussia Dortmund’s 26-year-old Germany international Nico Schlotterbeck as they look to sign a left-sided centre-back. (ESPN), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a>‘s priority in the summer will be bolstering central midfield – with England duo Kobbie Mainoo, 20, of Manchester United<\/a> and Adam Wharton, 21, of Crystal Palace<\/a> mentioned. (Telegraph – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Crystal Palace<\/a> are looking at right wing-back options for the January transfer window after an injury to Daniel Munoz that could rule out the 29-year-old Colombia international for an extended period. (Sky Sports), external<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the wide defenders Palace are interested in is Bayern Munich’s Sacha Boey – the 25-year-old French full-back who is expected to leave the Bundesliga club next month. (Standard), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Palace boss Oliver Glasner believes England defender Marc Guehi, 25, will see out his contract by staying until the end of the season. (Standard), external<\/a> <\/p>\n

AC Milan are in talks to sign Germany striker Niclas Fullkrug, 32, from West Ham<\/a> – having offered to take him on loan with option to buy. (Bild – in German), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer urged Manchester United<\/a> to sign Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice while he was manager at Old Trafford – but they instead signed Donny van de Beek, Jadon Sancho and Cristiano Ronaldo. (Mail – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> are unlikely to spend about \u00a325m to sign AC Milan and Mexico striker Santiago Gimenez, 24, and will instead eye a short-term loan deal for a new forward during the January window. (Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany striker Nick Woltemade was a target for Bayern Munich in the summer before he joined Newcastle United<\/a> from Stuttgart and the 23-year-old says that “in hindsight, I’m happy that it turned out this way”. (Sport Bild, via Sky Sports Germany), external<\/a> <\/p>\n

Newcastle United<\/a>‘s 20-year-old English midfielder Alfie Harrison, who is yet to make his senior debut for the club he joined from Manchester City<\/a> last year, is attracting interest from two Championship clubs. (Sky Sports), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United and Roma reach stalemate over Joshua Zirkzee deal, Barcelona eye Aston Villa‘s Pau Torres, Crystal Palace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-197390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197390","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=197390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}