The top stories and transfer rumours from Wednesday’s newspapers…<\/p>\n
Premier League<\/p>\n
Man Utd are monitoring Bournemouth striker Eli Junior Kroupi, ahead of the summer transfer window and Marcos Senesi, who is poised to leave the Cherries on a free transfer – The Mirror<\/p>\n
Manchester United will face a tough task in trying to tempt Andoni Iraola to become their next long-term manager this summer – The Mirror<\/p>\n
Crystal Palace hope to lure Iraola after the Spanish manager quit Bournemouth – The Sun<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Cherries want Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna to replace Iraola when he stands down at the end of the season – The Sun.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth are also considering Rayo Vallecano boss Inigo Perez and Coventry City manager Frank Lampar, as well as McKenna as they plan for life after Iraola – The i Paper<\/p>\n
German manager Marco Rose, whose last job was at RB Leipzig, is thought to be the leading contender to replace Iraola at Bournemouth – The Guardian<\/p>\n
Man Utd boss Michael Carrick is set to be well short of centre-backs as he takes his side to Chelsea this Saturday – The Sun<\/p>\n
Jadon Sancho will have to accept a significant drop in wages if he wants to rejoin Borussia Dortmund this summer – The Mirror<\/p>\n
Bayern Munich have been monitoring Sunderland striker Brian Brobbey, with a view to a potential summer move – The Independent<\/p>\n
Aston Villa are the latest Premier League club to show an interest in England goalkeeper James Trafford – Daily Mail<\/p>\n
Newcastle have confirmed the signing of highly-regarded Ecuadorian teenager Johan Martinez from Independiente del Valle. The 16-year-old will officially join the Magpies following his 18th birthday and will continue with Independiente del Valle in the meantime until the summer of 2027 – The Independent<\/p>\n
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Scotland<\/p>\n
Robbie Keane has insisted his focus remains on the title fight with Ferencvaros – despite throwing open the door to Celtic last week – Daily Record<\/p>\n
World football<\/p>\n
Xavi lined up as replacement as Javier Mascherano leaves Inter Miami – The Sun.<\/p>\n
New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games – The Athletic<\/p>\n
U.S. Soccer sporting director Matt Crocker is leaving his role with immediate effect, less than two months before the 2026 World Cup, the federation announced Tuesday – The Athletic<\/p>\n
Cricket<\/p>\n
England Test captain Ben Stokes has sought to play down speculation regarding a potential rift with head coach Brendon McCullum, though he conceded their working relationship is set to “look a little bit different” this summer – The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top stories and transfer rumours from Wednesday’s newspapers… Premier League Man Utd are monitoring Bournemouth striker Eli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-398814","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\/398814","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=398814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}