{"id":259668,"date":"2025-11-13T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:43:10","slug":"football-gossip-kane-wharton-maignan-rodrygo-mainoo-endrick-yildiz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259668\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Kane, Wharton, Maignan, Rodrygo, Mainoo, Endrick, Yildiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane is a leading target for Barcelona, Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton tops Chelsea&#8217;s transfer list and Juventus halt contract talks with Kenan Yildiz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barcelona have made Bayern Munich and England forward Harry Kane, 32, their first-choice target to replace Poland international Robert Lewandowski, 37, next summer and may trigger a \u00a357m release clause in his contract with the German club. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/nov\/12\/barcelona-make-harry-kane-first-choice-target-to-replace-robert-lewandowski\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Guardian), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crystal Palace and England midfielder Adam Wharton, 21, is top of Chelsea&#8217;s wishlist for the January transfer window. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/chelsea\/sources-reveal-most-likely-january-signing-three-exciting-targets\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Tottenham forward Son Heung-min, 33, says he will not leave Los Angeles FC on loan in January following the end of the Major League Soccer season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c708lx0y87xo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Evening Standard)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juventus are hoping they can convince France keeper Mike Maignan to join them when his contract at AC Milan runs out in the summer, with the 30-year-old also linked with Chelsea. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Calciomercato\/Juventus\/12-11-2025\/juve-su-maignan-e-celik-il-piano-per-prenderli-da-milan-e-roma.shtml\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Gazzetta dello Sport &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea have not made a move for Real Madrid and Brazil forward Rodrygo, 24, who is interesting Manchester City and Tottenham. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UoISZCwD_A8\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Fabrizio Romano), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juventus have failed to reach an agreement with 20-year-old Turkey forward Kenan Yildiz &#8211; who has been linked with Arsenal, Chelsea and Real Madrid &#8211; over a new deal and contract talks between the two parties have been halted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Calciomercato\/Juventus\/12-11-2025\/juve-yildiz-rinnovo-bloccato-trattativa-mercato.shtml\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Gazzetta dello Sport &#8211; in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real Madrid are finalising a deal with Lyon for 19-year-old Brazil striker Endrick to join the French club on loan in January. <a href=\"https:\/\/ge.globo.com\/futebol\/futebol-internacional\/noticia\/2025\/11\/11\/lyon-encaminha-acerto-com-o-real-madrid-por-emprestimo-de-endrick.ghtml\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Globo Esporte &#8211; in Portuguese), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England midfielder Kobbie Mainoo, 20, remains a target for Napoli and Leeds United, although Manchester United will only let him leave on loan if they can secure a replacement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/kobbie-mainoo-transfer-truths-revealed-leeds-linked-shock-move\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denmark defender Andreas Christensen, 29, wants to stay at Barcelona but says he has &#8220;no plan B&#8221; if the La Liga champions do not renew his contract beyond next summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipsbladet.dk\/nyhed\/landshold\/ac-med-spaendende-broendby-melding\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Tipsbladet &#8211; in Danish), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Croatia defender Slaven Bilic says he was close to returning for a second stint as West Ham manager before the Hammers opted to appoint Nuno Espirito Santo. <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/3728831\/slaven-bilic-return-west-ham-graham-potter\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Talksport), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane is a leading target for Barcelona, Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-259668","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\/259668","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=259668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}