{"id":160993,"date":"2025-09-16T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160993\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:18:08","slug":"latest-transfer-news-barcelona-confident-of-erling-haaland-and-benfica-want-jurgen-klopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160993\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest transfer news: Barcelona &#8216;confident&#8217; of Erling Haaland and Benfica want Jurgen Klopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 16th\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erling-haaland-manchester-city-2025-1757871882-177641.jpg\" title=\"Latest transfer news: Barcelona 'confident' of Erling Haaland and Benfica want Jurgen Klopp\" alt=\"Latest transfer news: Barcelona 'confident' of Erling Haaland and Benfica want Jurgen Klopp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                       \u00a9IMAGO\n                                    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s transfer window may be closed in Europe&#8217;s top leagues, but the rumours continue to circulate as clubs plan out future moves. Teams are working tirelessly behind the scenes on identifying targets and figuring out their budgets.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Managers will be constantly assessing their squads with sporting directors and recruitment staff scanning the market for potential deals. The rumour mill is still gathering pace and we&#8217;ve collated some of the biggest current transfer stories.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday&#8217;s biggest transfer stories<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FC Barcelona\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/fc-barcelona\/startseite\/verein\/131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barcelona<\/a> president Joan Laporta has become obsessed with signing <a title=\"Erling Haaland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/erling-haaland\/profil\/spieler\/418560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Erling Haaland<\/a>, according to reports in Spain. The <a title=\"Manchester City\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/manchester-city\/startseite\/verein\/281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manchester City<\/a> striker is contracted with the English club until 2034 but Laporta believes Haaland will play for Barcelona in the future.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SL Benfica\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/sl-benfica\/startseite\/verein\/294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benfica<\/a> presidential candidate Cristovao Carvalho reportedly wants <a title=\"J\u00fcrgen Klopp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/j-rgen-klopp\/profil\/trainer\/118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jurgen Klopp<\/a> to replace Bruno Lage at the Portuguese giants. The elections take place next month but it&#8217;s extremely unlikely that Klopp will return to management with Benfica.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arsenal FC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/arsenal-fc\/startseite\/verein\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arsenal<\/a>, <a title=\"Chelsea FC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/chelsea-fc\/startseite\/verein\/631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chelsea<\/a>, <a title=\"Manchester United\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/manchester-united\/startseite\/verein\/985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>, <a title=\"Real Madrid\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/real-madrid\/startseite\/verein\/418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> and <a title=\"FC Barcelona\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/fc-barcelona\/startseite\/verein\/131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barcelona<\/a> have been watching Ajax wonderkid <a title=\"Jorthy Mokio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/jorthy-mokio\/profil\/spieler\/1105532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jorthy Mokio<\/a>. The 17-year-old has featured four times in the Eredivise this season and is viewed as an elite talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 16th\u00a0 \u00a9IMAGO It&#8217;s transfer window may be closed in Europe&#8217;s top leagues, but the rumours continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4894,4903,1215,4901,4897,4902,1216,4906,4907,4893,4895,4905,1711,4904,4896,3788,1088,4898,403,99,4900,4899],"class_list":["post-160993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ac-milan","tag-alejandro-garnacho","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-atletico-de-madrid","tag-bayern-munich","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-darwin-nunez","tag-douglas-luiz","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-inter-milan","tag-jamie-gittens","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-luis-diaz","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sunderland-afc","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}