{"id":444169,"date":"2026-02-02T06:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444169\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T06:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:13:07","slug":"arsenal-weighing-up-deadline-day-signing-after-mikel-merino-setback-paper-talk-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444169\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal weighing up Deadline Day signing after Mikel Merino setback &#8211; Paper Talk | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday&#8217;s newspapers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Premier League<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are weighing up making a Deadline Day signing after Mikel Merino&#8217;s injury setback &#8211; talkSPORT<\/p>\n<p>Dominik Szoboszlai says his future &#8220;is not in my hands&#8221; as talks continue with Liverpool over a new contract &#8211; The Athletic<\/p>\n<p>Juventus have made an enquiry over Everton striker Beto &#8211; talkSPORT<\/p>\n<p>Fulham have reached PSV&#8217;s asking price with a third and final offer for Ricardo Pepi &#8211; The Sun<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea made an offer of \u20ac30m (\u00a326m) for Nantes defender Tylel Tati. FC Nantes rejected the initial approach &#8211; L&#8217;Equipe<\/p>\n<p>SCOTLAND<\/p>\n<p>Hansa Rostock sporting director Amir Shapourzadeh has sensationally quashed any talk of striker Ryan Naderi joining Rangers before Monday&#8217;s transfer deadline &#8211; Scottish Sun<\/p>\n<p>WSL<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea head coach Sonia Bompastor said she would be &#8220;happy to go&#8221; if the club&#8217;s hierarchy believed she was not capable of correcting the team&#8217;s poor form after their 5-1 Women&#8217;s Super League defeat to Manchester City on Sunday -The Athletic<\/p>\n<p>\n        Watch Back Pages on Sky Sports News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\">Back Pages is a review of the sports headlines from the national newspapers, every Monday to Friday, live on Sky Sports News from 10.30pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>Missed the show? Catch up on the latest news with the Back Pages podcast. <\/p>\n<p>OTHER<\/p>\n<p>Jude Bellingham will be out injured for approximately a month. That means he&#8217;ll miss the tie against Benfica and at least four league matches &#8211; Marca<\/p>\n<p>Former Newcastle winger Allan Saint-Maximin has left Mexican side Club America by mutual consent after claiming that his children were the victims of racist abuse &#8211; The Independent<\/p>\n<p>Saudi dealmakers are considering a surprise transfer that would see Karim Benzema move from Al Ittihad to Al Hilal &#8211; talkSPORT<\/p>\n<p>NFL<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Cardinals plan to hire Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur as their next head coach, a league source told &#8211; The Athletic<\/p>\n<p>RUGBY UNION<\/p>\n<p>England are preparing an all-Northampton centre pairing of Fraser Dingwall and Tommy Freeman for their Six Nations opener against Wales on Saturday &#8211; Daily Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday&#8217;s newspapers&#8230; Premier League Arsenal are weighing up making a Deadline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-444169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444169","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=444169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}