Transfer round-up: Man United plot £261m move for Brazilian, Liverpool FC eye 23-year-old
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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 January transfer window in the Premier League as most of the top teams brought in significant reinforcements for the second half of the season.
Now the attention turns towards the summer, and the players who could be moving clubs ahead of the 2018-19 season.
We’ll keep you up to date with the very latest transfer news concerning your club in our daily gossip and rumours column.
With the summer transfer window just around the corner, 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 are pondering making a £40m move to sign Brazilian attacker Douglas Costa, 27, from Bayern Munich this summer.
Liverpool FC could move in to hijack Manchester United’s interest in signing 23-year-old Brazilian attacking midfielder Talisca this summer.
Manchester United could be set to benefit from the uncertainty surrounding 24-year-old defender Samuel Umtiti’s future at FC Barcelona.
Manchester United are lining up a potential £261m bid to sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain this summer and could include Paul Pogba as part of the deal.
Manchester City and Manchester United both want to sign Bayern Munich’s 29-year-old German centre-back Jerome Boateng.
Gareth Bale, 28, will leave Real Madrid to join Manchester United this summer if Zinedine Zidane stays in charge of the Spanish club.