{"id":387174,"date":"2026-01-24T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387174\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:06:08","slug":"football-gossip-alexander-arnold-alvarez-diomande-gomez-paqueta-wharton-baleba-anderson-tsimikas-luiz-cresswell-lopez-watson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387174\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Alexander-Arnold, Alvarez, Diomande, Gomez, Paqueta, Wharton, Baleba, Anderson, Tsimikas, Luiz, Cresswell, Lopez, Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Madrid right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has not been told to find a new club this summer, Arsenal<\/a> eye summer move for Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez, while Liverpool<\/a> are set to battle Bayern Munich for RB Leipzig’s Yan Diomande.<\/p>\n

England right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has not been told to leave Real Madrid, despite reports in Spain suggesting new manager Alvaro Arbeloa has urged the 27-year-old to find a new club this summer. (Mail) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> are exploring the possibility of launching a summer move for 25-year-old Atletico Madrid and Argentina forward Julian Alvarez. (ESPN) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Bayern Munich will have competition from Liverpool<\/a> in the race to sign Ivory Coast forward Yan Diomande, 19, from RB Leipzig. (Bild – in German), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a>‘s English defender Joe Gomez, 28, is wanted by AC Milan. (Calciomercato – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a> have rejected a bid worth \u00a332.9m plus \u00a33m in add-ons from Flamengo for 28-year-old Brazil midfielder Lucas Paqueta. (Athletic – subscription required) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Crystal Palace<\/a> and England midfielder Adam Wharton, 21, and Brighton<\/a> and Cameroon midfielder Carlos Baleba, 22, have emerged as more realistic targets for Manchester United<\/a> than Nottingham Forest<\/a> and England midfielder Elliot Anderson, 23, who they believe will join Manchester City<\/a>. (The I – subscription required) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> are looking to bring Greece left-back Kostas Tsimikas, 29, back from his loan at Roma. (Talksport) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> have made initial approach to Juventus to discuss a loan deal for 27-year-old Brazilian midfielder Douglas Luiz, who is currently on loan at Nottingham Forest<\/a>. (Fabrizio Romano), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Rennes will target Toulouse’s English centre-back Charlie Cresswell, 23, should 20-year-old French defender Jeremy Jacquet leave them for Chelsea<\/a>. (Florian Plettenberg), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Barcelona will attempt to ward off interest in attacking midfielder Fermin Lopez by offering the 22-year-old Spaniard a new contract. (Sport – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Brighton<\/a> have made 19-year-old English winger Tommy Watson available for loan, with several clubs in the Championship and one in the Premier League interested. (Sky Sports), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has not been told to find a new club this summer, Arsenal eye…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-387174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387174","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=387174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}