Gossip Column: Bale, Kovacic, Higuain, Perisic, Welbeck, and Golovin

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Football Gossip Column

Tuesday 17th June 2018

Gareth Bale, 29, is set to keep his man-bun at Real Madrid now Ronaldo and Zidane are no longer at the club, so there’s another failure in Jose Mourinho’s book, “Manchester United: Failed Signings and Other Tall Tales”…
Metro

Chapters Two and Three tell the tales of how Manchester United tried to sign wingers Ivan Perisic, 29, from Inter Milan and Ante Rebic, 24, from Eintracht Frankfurt. Can’t wait to read about Alex Sandro…
ESPN

Across the city, Pep Guardiola is bristling with indignance with the Manchester City board for refusing to sanction an £80m deal with Real Madrid for Mateo Kovacic, 24. “Indignance” might be too strong a word; let’s just say he’s jolly cross…
Sky Sports

Chelsea are getting their act together and talking to Juventus about a €55m deal for Gonzalo Higuain, 30.
Evening Standard

Russian-owned Monaco offered something to Russian club CSKA Moscow for Russian midfielder Aleksandr Golovin, 22. No-one knows how much yet as Vladimir Putin hasn’t decided the fee.
Sport Express

Danny Welbeck, 27, and David Ospina, 29, are set to do one from the Emirates this summer as Unai Emery looks to trim the Arsenal squad. Only the small snag of no clubs being interested in them to overcome…
Daily Telegraph

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson reckons Wilf Zaha, 25, is under contract and not being sold which means a move to Dortmund, Everton, or Spurs is imminent.
Liverpool Echo

Proof there is more money than sense in football comes with the news Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr are willing to pay £40m for Leicester City misfit Ahmed Musa, 25.
Leicester Mercury

Tottenham midfielder Moussa Dembele, 31, is being eyed by Fenerbahce.
90min

Jamaal Lascelles, 24, denied wanting to leave Newcastle United, but things change in football so quickly…
The Times

Roberto, 32, is fed up with sitting on the Espanyol bench and thinks the ones at Fulham are much more scenic. A £1.3m bid is being considered by the Catalans.
Lacontra Deportivo

Chelsea midfielder Jeremie Boga – me either – is on his way to Sassuolo after the two clubs agreed a £3.5m deal for the 21-year-old.
Goal