{"id":179096,"date":"2025-10-04T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179096\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:53:09","slug":"football-gossip-bentancur-olise-saka-ward-prowse-gomez-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179096\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Bentancur, Olise, Saka, Ward-Prowse, Gomez, Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham close to agreeing new contract with Rodrigo Bentancur, Manchester City and Real Madrid are monitoring Bayern Munich&#8217;s Michael Olise, Arsenal will offer Bukayo Saka more than \u00a3250,000-a-week to extend his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> are set to agree a new contract with 28-year-old Uruguay midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur, whose current deal runs out in the summer of 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6679116\/2025\/10\/01\/tottenham-confident-on-agreeing-new-rodrigo-bentancur-contract\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Athletic &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> and Real Madrid are monitoring France winger Michael Olise as Bayern Munich consider offering the 23-year-old an improved deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-city\/michael-olise-real-madrid-bayern-munich\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Teamtalk), external<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> are willing to pay 24-year-old England forward Bukayo Saka, whose contract runs out in the summer of 2027, more then \u00a3250,000-a-week. <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/3600207\/transfer-notebook-arsenal-bukayo-saka-michael-carrick-man-utd-west-ham\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Talksport), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/southampton\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southampton<\/a> are planning to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham&#8217;s<\/a> English midfielder James Ward-Prowse, 30, the chance to return to St Mary&#8217;s in January. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/southampton-transfer-news-plotting-sensational-move-resign-james-ward-prowse-st-marys\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(GiveMesport), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich intend to keep on-loan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> and Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson, 24, on a permanent basis even if the conditions for an obligation to buy on his deal is not met. <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/bayern-munich-have-already-decided-whether-to-make-nicolas-jacksons-loan-deal-permanent\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TBR Football), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea are confident they will be able to sign 30-year-old AC Milan and France goalkeeper Mike Maignan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asromalive.it\/2025\/09\/30\/rilancio-chelsea-e-addio-svilar-lincastro-si-chiude-in-serie-a\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(ASRomalive &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham close to agreeing new contract with Rodrigo Bentancur, Manchester City and Real Madrid are monitoring Bayern Munich&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-179096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}