{"id":780508,"date":"2026-09-24T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780508\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:42:09","slug":"football-gossip-alvarez-wirtz-scott-wharton-camara-buendia-shaw-alaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780508\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Alvarez, Wirtz, Scott, Wharton, Camara, Buendia, Shaw, Alaba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona rule out Alvarez signing from Atletico Madrid, Liverpool<\/a> will not allow Wirtz departure, and Chelsea<\/a> target English midfield duo.<\/p>\n

Barcelona have ruled out signing Argentina forward Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid in January, with the 24-year-old waiting to see whether Paris St-Germain or Arsenal<\/a> make a bid for him, or whether he should stay put. (Fichajes – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> will not countenance selling Germany midfielder Florian Wirtz, 23, to Bayern Munich in the January transfer window, while the German giants would only consider making a move next summer if France winger Michael Olise, 24, turns down a new deal. (Christian Falk – Bayern Insider\/Bild), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a>‘s Alex Scott, 23, and Crystal Palace<\/a> and England’s Adam Wharton, 22, are Chelsea<\/a>‘s primary midfield targets, with the West London club no longer interested in Monaco and Senegal’s Lamine Camara, 22. (CaughtOffside, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a> are keen to tie Argentina midfielder Emi Buendia, 29, to a new contract as a reward for his outstanding form (Mail), external<\/a><\/p>\n

England left-back Luke Shaw, 31, could leave Manchester United<\/a> when his present deal expires with the club next summer. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Udinese are set to sign Austria defender David Alaba, 34, who left Real Madrid in the summer. (Fabrizio Romano), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona rule out Alvarez signing from Atletico Madrid, Liverpool will not allow Wirtz departure, and Chelsea target English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780508","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\/780508","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=780508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}