Gossip Column: Oxlade-Chamberlain, Van Dijk, Sanchez, Carroll, Wenger, Costa, Carvalho

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Sunday 20th August 2017

Chelsea will spend £200m on Ryan Bertrand, 28, Virgil Van Dijk, 26, Cedric Soares, 25, Danny Drinkwater, 27, and, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 24. And a tin hat for the low-flying squadron of pigs buzzing around the Cobham training pitches.
Sunday Express

Manchester City are ready to offer Arsenal £70m for Alexis Sanchez, 28, and will keep on trying to do a deal until the transfer window closes.
Sunday Mirror

Newcastle United want to sign former Gallowgate hero Andy Carroll, 28, on a season-long loan deal but face competition from Chinese clubs.
Sunday People

Arsene Wenger believes that the 33 professionals in the first team squad is too many and wants to shed some before he signs anyone else.
BT Sport

Chelsea rebel Diego Costa, 28, turned down two offers from the Chinese Super League which would have earned him £13m between now and his return to Atletico Madrid.
TalkSPORT

Following their second successive defeat at the start of this Premier League season is to pay the €40m release clause in 25-year-old Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho’s contract.
Sky Sports

Samir Nasri, 30, is set to end his Manchester City nightmare with a move to Turkish club Antalyaspor in a two-year deal.
Manchester Evening News