{"id":620743,"date":"2026-06-04T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:25:08","slug":"transfer-news-live-man-utd-done-deal-arsenal-rogers-talks-tottenham-bid-rejected-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620743\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Man Utd done deal, Arsenal Rogers talks, Tottenham bid rejected | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Calafiori is a player of interest to Real Madrid, as per Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Madrid are not finished when it comes to strengthening their defence. Their focus remains on both the centre-back and left-back positions,\u201d Romano admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt left-back, Real Madrid have Alvaro Carreras, while Ferland Mendy is currently injured and has struggled with injuries over recent years. The club&#8217;s idea is to find a player capable of operating both as a centre-back and a left-back. Riccardo Calafiori fits that profile and is considered an interesting option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have also been reports regarding Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol. He is admired by several clubs, but at the moment he remains a very difficult target because Manchester City view him as a crucial player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can reveal is that Real Madrid made contact with people close to Calafiori a few weeks ago to gather information about the Italian defender. Calafiori remains a very important player for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/arsenal-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>, making any potential deal far from straightforward. Arsenal consider him an important part of their long-term project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riccardo Calafiori is a player of interest to Real Madrid, as per Fabrizio Romano. \u201cReal Madrid are not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1111,398,59,134,36312,1577,2502,1441,221,101,110,567,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-gb","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-man-city","tag-man-utd","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-transfer-news","tag-transfer-window","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620743","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=620743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}