- Newsweek
Alvaro Morata to Chelsea: Antonio Conte Will Be Hoping For a Lot More of This For £75 Million
Chelsea will sign Spanish striker Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid for a fee reported to be around £75 million (about $98 million), subject to a medical. The Premier League champion announced on Wednesday that it had come to an agreement with La Liga champion Real Madrid over the purchase of Morata. Chelsea is currently on a pre-season tour in China ahead of the new Premier League season, where Morata is set to join up with his new teammates after undergoing the medical.
- BBC Sport
Football transfer gossip: Costa, Keita, Hernandez, Verratti, Barkley, Neymar
For completed deals, check our transfers page. Transfer news Chelsea are holding out for £44m for Atletico Madrid target Diego Costa, 28, after agreeing a deal to sign his fellow striker Alvaro Morata, 24, from Real Madrid. (Independent) Atletico president Enrique Cerezo has played down talk of an imminent move for Spain international Costa. (Mirror) Liverpool are ready to bid £70m for RB Leipzig midfielder Naby Keita, having had a £66m offer rejected for the 22-year-old Guinea international. (Mirror) West Ham are set to sign former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez, 29, from Bayer Leverkusen. (Sky Sports) Manchester United are being linked with Paris St-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti,
- Newsweek
Transfer News: Could Neymar Really Leave Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain?
Neymar da Silva Santos Junior was bought by Barcelona from Santos in his native Brazil in the summer of 2013 as the project to eventually usurp Lionel Messi. Sure, Neymar has always been quite different from Messi. Neymar, Messi and Luis Suarez, the Uruguayan central fork of a South American trident at Camp Nou, have formed one of the most fearsome attacks in European football history.
Premier League Standings
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| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |