Transfer round-up: Chelsea want to sign 21-year-old Russian, Man United target 17-year-old talent
Read today's top transfer news and rumours on The Grapevine - The Sport Review's football transfer gossip column

The latest football transfer gossip column from The Sport Review, featuring all of the latest Premier League transfer news and rumours.
Here, we look at some of the top football transfer stories from the British and world media in The Sport Review’s Grapevine, published every morning in the lead-up to the January transfer window.
It was a busy summer transfer window in the Premier League as most of the top teams brought in significant reinforcements for the 2017-18 campaign.
However, there is still plenty of business to be done, with the January transfer window offering clubs the chance to bolster their squads mid-way through the Premier League season.
We’ll keep you up to date with the very latest transfer news concerning your club in our daily gossip and rumours column.
As the build-up to the January transfer window begins to gather pace, The Grapevine has the very latest football transfer news from the Premier League’s top clubs in the round-up below.
Latest football transfer news:
Manchester United and Tottenham have been handed boosts in their pursuit of Gareth Bale after the attacker agreed terms with Real Madrid to leave the club next summer.
Arsenal are the favourites to sign Manchester United and Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero, 30.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan is seeking showdown talks with Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho after being frozen out at Old Trafford.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed that striker Olivier Giroud, 31, will stay at the club and start in more games.
Manchester United have held talks with midfielder Marouane Fellaini in an attempt to get the 30-year-old to sign a new contract before his current deal expires in the summer.
Chelsea want to sign 21-year-old Russian Aleksandr Golovin from CSKA Moscow in a January transfer swoop worth around £15m.
Manchester United have been given the green light to press ahead in their £50m bid to sign 17-year-old Fulham left-back Ryan Sessegnon.




