{"id":240728,"date":"2025-11-03T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240728\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:59:08","slug":"football-gossip-kane-branthwaite-aghehowa-iraola-kevin-upamecano-de-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240728\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Kane, Branthwaite, Aghehowa, Iraola, Kevin, Upamecano, De Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane considering move to Barcelona, Manchester United and Tottenham monitoring Everton&#8217;s Jarrad Branthwaite and Liverpool watch Fulham winger Kevin.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane has a 65m euros (\u00a357m) release clause that kicks in next summer and the 32-year-old England international is weighing up his options, which include staying in Germany and considering a move to Barcelona. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/harry-kane-valora-opcion-fichar-123272441\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sport &#8211; in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United and Tottenham are closely monitoring 23-year-old England centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite, who Everton do not want to sell and value him at around \u00a370m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/11\/02\/sources-man-united-spurs-premier-league-star\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Caught Offside), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham and Chelsea are set to go head-to-head in a battle to sign Porto&#8217;s 21-year-old Spanish striker Samu Aghehowa, who could be made available for 80m euros (\u00a370.5m). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/spurs-chelsea-head-to-head-london-rivals-battle-for-porto-striker-samu-aghehowa-andre-villas-boas-sanction-exit\/bltb15bd8b57a543c72\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Correio da Manha via Goal), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal and Barcelona are tracking France Under-16s captain Lacine Megnan-Pave after the 15-year-old registered 15 goals and 12 assists in 24 games for Montpellier under-17s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport.es\/es\/noticias\/barca\/barca-puja-arsenal-gran-joya-123250135.html\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sport &#8211; in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool&#8217;s chief scout Barry Hunter was at Craven Cottage on Saturday to watch Fulham&#8217;s \u00a335m summer signing, Brazilian winger Kevin, 22, in their 3-0 win over Wolves. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/exclusive-liverpool-chief-scout-watches-35m-star-in-fulham-wolves-clash\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola is Athletic Club&#8217;s preferred option to become their manager if Ernesto Valverde does not renew his contract with them beyond next summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larazon.es\/deportes\/laotraliga\/athletic-debate-tres-entrenadores-relevar-valverde_2025110169063ca09de7280e3d3c2f55.html\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(La Razon &#8211; in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich director of sport Max Eberl says the club will do everything they can to get France defender Dayot Upamecano, 27, to sign a contract extension. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1984934464347107719\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Sky Sports Germany), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Switzerland centre-back Manuel Akanji, 30, says it will be up to Inter Milan whether they want to turn his loan move from Manchester City into a permanent switch, but the Serie A club &#8220;seem happy&#8221; with him so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/akanji-drops-transfer-hint-as-inter-consider\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Football Italia), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Italy and Roma midfielder Daniele de Rossi is among the candidates to replace the sacked Patrick Vieira as Genoa manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Serie-A\/02-11-2025\/criscito-ad-interim-dopo-vieira-vanoli-gotti-palladino-e-de-rossi-per-la-panchina.shtml\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(La Gazzetta dello Sport &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane considering move to Barcelona, Manchester United and Tottenham monitoring Everton&#8217;s Jarrad Branthwaite and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-240728","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\/240728","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=240728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}