{"id":785758,"date":"2026-09-28T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785758\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:12:09","slug":"football-gossip-costa-haaland-sterling-willock-howe-tchouameni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785758\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Costa, Haaland, Sterling, Willock, Howe, Tchouameni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Porto defender Alberto Costa is on the radar of Arsenal<\/a> and Manchester United<\/a>, Manchester City<\/a> will not let Erling Haaland leave on the cheap if they are relegated, Liverpool<\/a> retain an interest in Real Madrid midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni.<\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> and Arsenal<\/a> are both keeping a close eye on Porto’s 22-year-old Portuguese right-back Alberto Costa but face competition from Paris St-Germain. (Caughtoffside), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/a> will put a hefty price tag on Norway striker Erling Haaland, 26, if they end up being relegated from the Premier League over financial rule breaches. (Football Insider), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a>, Arsenal<\/a>, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona are among the teams interested in Haaland and closely monitoring Manchester City<\/a>‘s situation amid the possibility of sanctions. (Fichajes – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Former Chelsea<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a> winger Raheem Sterling has been offered to two clubs in France’s Ligue 1, but neither were interested in the 31-year-old Englishman, who is currently a free agent. (Foot Mercato – in French), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Besiktas president Serdal Adali has vowed to sign Joe Willock, 27, from Newcastle<\/a>, in January, claiming the English midfielder has already chosen a new home in Turkey. (Talksport), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Former Newcastle<\/a> boss Eddie Howe will not return to Premier League management with a lower or mid-ranked club such as Crystal Palace<\/a> or Fulham<\/a> and would want to take over at an underachieving big club. (Telegraph – subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> remain interested in Real Madrid’s France midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni – even though the 26-year-old signed a new long-term contract with the La Liga club in the summer. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porto defender Alberto Costa is on the radar of Arsenal and Manchester United, Manchester City will not let…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785758","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\/785758","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=785758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}