{"id":704744,"date":"2026-07-22T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704744\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:18:11","slug":"football-gossip-rashford-konsa-diomande-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704744\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Rashford, Konsa, Diomande"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trio of Premier League heavyweights all want Marcus Rashford, Arsenal<\/a> are interested in Aston Villa<\/a>‘s Ezri Konsa, and Nottingham Forest<\/a> look set to sign a new defender.<\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a>, Chelsea<\/a> and Arsenal<\/a> are all plotting a move for Manchester United<\/a> forward Marcus Rashford, 28, but the Old Trafford hierarchy do not want to sell him to another English club. (The I – subscription required), external<\/a> <\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a>‘s Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, 33, is a target for Juventus while Arsenal<\/a> are interested in Villa’s 28-year-old England defender Ezri Konsa. (Telegraph – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest<\/a> are in advanced talks to sign Sporting CP and Ivory Coast defender Ousmane Diomande, 22. (Fabrizio Romano), external<\/a><\/p>\n

West Ham’s French centre-back Jean-Clair Todibo, 26, is wanted by Juventus. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> remain keen to sign a central midfielder but have cooled their interest in Brighton<\/a>‘s Cameroon international Carlos Baleba and Bournemouth<\/a>‘s Guernseyman Alex Scott, both 22, because of their high price tags. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a> are determined to keep hold of Scott, who is interesting Arsenal<\/a>, even though the England Under-21 international has rejected a new contract with the Cherries. (Telegraph – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Ipswich have agreed a deal in principle to sign Celtic’s Japanese forward Daizen Maeda, 28, for \u00a38m plus \u00a32m in add-ons. (Sky Sports), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a>‘s 18-year-old Australian full-back James Overy is being monitored by Rangers and several clubs in Australia. (Mail Plus – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trio of Premier League heavyweights all want Marcus Rashford, Arsenal are interested in Aston Villa‘s Ezri Konsa,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704744","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\/704744","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=704744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}