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Champions League talking points: Is this Arsenal’s year? Which stars shone for their team?
Behold, the Chaaaaampiooooons! That sound you hear is our collective joy at the return of the UEFA Champions League, with Tuesday, Wednesday and now Thursday making up what’s been a superb Matchday 1. We’ve had dramatic comebacks by Liverpool (against Atlético Madrid), Real Madrid (against Marseille), FK Qarabag (against Benfica) and Juventus (against Borussia Dortmund), impressive wins for Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, and upsets in the form of Union St.-Gilloise‘s win at PSV Eindhoven.
This is what you often get with Europe’s elite club competition, and this week has provided plenty to talk about as the league phase kicks into gear.
ESPN experts Mark Ogden, Julien Laurens, Sam Tighe and Gab Marcotti offer their thoughts on Matchday 1, with more to follow after Thursday’s matches, which include Newcastle United vs. Barcelona and Manchester City vs. Napoli.
Do Arsenal have the squad/talent/depth to finally win the Champions League this year?
Mark Ogden: Yes, but they’re probably in the second bracket of teams capable of winning it, outside the real heavyweights — basically the big clubs that have won it at least once before.
Arsenal have the squad, the individual players and the tactical discipline to go all the way, but I wonder if they have the belief that they can do it when the pressure is really on. There is also an issue with creativity when Martin Ødegaard is missing. Without him, everything goes out wide and Arsenal create nothing through the middle — they need to resolve that if they are to win the competition.
Ultimately, they have the players now. They just need to go out and prove it.
Gab Marcotti: Sure, why not? They came pretty darn close last year, and spent a ton in the summer. Meanwhile, I’m not sure the other semifinalists got much better. Inter Milan and Barcelona went backwards, and we’ll find out whether ditching Gianluigi Donnarumma for Lucas Chevalier in goal was as clever as Luis Enrique thought it was.
The Gunners are obviously much deeper and, in fact, Arteta literally has more than two options for each position. But that also presents a challenge. He’s never been in this position before, and having emphasized chemistry and cohesion in the past, man management can be much harder when you have more choices.
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Sam Tighe: The gut reaction to this is no, it’s difficult to envision Arsenal winning the Champions League. After all, they’ve failed to get over the line in the Premier League in three successive seasons — and winning this tournament is generally regarded as the “final” step.
It’s easy to suggest that this team simply does not have the mettle to win club football’s biggest prize, but consider the following: The Gunners made it all the way to the semifinals last season and could have conceivably reached the final, had it not been for Donnarumma’s outrageous performance between the posts for PSG. They then added eight new signings to that squad, bulking up considerably in attack while retaining one of the best defenses in Europe.
Accepting that they’d still need a stroke of luck along the way, as every winner does, why couldn’t this team go and do it?
Julien Laurens: The depth in their squad will make a big difference, for sure, in the Premier League and in the Champions League. But at the end of the day, Arsenal will win something if their superstars perform. Ødegaard, Bukayo Saka and William Saliba have to lead this team by playing at their best and delivering. If that happens, I still believe this team is better armed to be successful in Europe than in the league because this is a cup team. Due to their solidity defensively, they can beat anyone on their day, including the top European sides.
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Moreno: Liverpool always believe they will score
Alejandro Moreno reacts to another late win for Liverpool after a dramatic 3-2 win vs. Atletico Madrid in the Champions League
After a big night of upsets, which outsider/minnow has the strongest chance of reaching the knockouts?
Ogden: Bodo/Glimt will be a problem for teams who’ll have to travel into the Arctic Circle to face the Norwegian champions, as their run to last season’s Europa League semifinals showed. But I think the outsiders with the best chance of making the knockout phase are Union St.-Gilloise. Brighton & Hove Albion chairman Tony Bloom is a driving force despite only being a minority shareholder at the club, and they won their first Belgian title for 90 years last season.
The smart management and recruitment that Bloom has overseen at Brighton is now beginning to bear fruit. Overall, Belgian club football is enjoying a resurgence — Club Brugge made it to the round of 16 last season — and that is largely down to several teams now being part of multi-club ownership groups and favorable visa regulations in Belgium. They are getting better players and coaches as a result, and Union’s 3-1 win at PSV was a statement of that.
Marcotti: I watched nothing of Bodo/Glimt, Slavia Prague, Olympiacos, Pafos and Union St.-Gilloise before this week, so take this with a massive grain of salt. (But I watched loads of Qarabag … just kidding, no, I did not.) It’s hard to crown somebody on the basis of 90 minutes, but the fact that Qarabag went and got three points on the road to a Pot 2 side like Benfica is pretty huge. Especially when you consider that, other than whoever plays Kairat Almaty, it’s the longest away trip of the competition, which means wins at home aren’t out of the question.
Tighe: I’m going for Pafos. Let’s get carried away, shall we?
Laurens: For me, it’s Qarabag. They showed against Benfica, in Lisbon, how well they could play and how resilient they are. They have a strong collective, as well as decent individual quality from all over the world. Their manager, Qurban Qurbanov, has been in charge for 18 years and the way he outsmarted and outplayed Bruno Lage and Benfica to come back and win the game on Tuesday is a credit to his tactical abilities.
But surely their biggest asset in this Champions League is their home advantage. Teams will have to travel all the way to Baku in Azerbaijan — or 3,000 miles and a three-hour time difference from London — to face them. So good luck to F.C. København, Chelsea, Ajax and Eintracht Frankfurt on their travels there!
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Leboeuf: PSG were perfect vs. Atalanta
Frank Leboeuf praises PSG’s performance vs. Atalanta after an emphatic 4-0 win in the Champions League.
Best individual performance you’ve seen in MD1 (so far)?
Ogden: Has to be Marcos Llorente. Anyone that names his dog Anfield because of his goals record at Liverpool has to back it up whenever he goes back there, and guess what? The Atlético Madrid star bagged two more goals at Anfield while playing at right back on a night when Diego Simeone’s team were so unlucky not to come away with a 2-2 draw, losing eventually to Virgil van Dijk‘s stoppage-time winner.
Llorente doesn’t score many goals — before last night, he had scored five Champions League goals in his career, including two at Anfield in 2019-20. Now he has seven, with more than half of them coming on Liverpool’s home turf. Weird, but amazing all the same.
Marcotti: I’ll go with Kenan Yildiz. I’m very tempted to pick his Juventus teammate Dusan Vlahovic for the way he came on and wrecked everybody, showing just how silly some clubs were in their obsession with the likes of Benjamin Sesko and Viktor Gyökeres when he was sitting there, waiting for a transfer last summer. But then I see Yildiz’s goal and I remember Alessandro Del Piero, I remember that the kid is just 20 years old and scored an equally good goal at the weekend, and it’s hard not to pick him. Oh, he also served up an assist and hit the post.
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Tighe: My choice is Ryan Gravenberch. OK, Liverpool left it late to win again, but this one wasn’t like the others. Unlike in Premier League play, where despite racking up 12 points from four games, the Reds have looked downright dysfunctional — and perhaps even tactically broken — in the very early stages of this season, this opening Champions League 3-2 win over Atlético Madrid was superb.
Powering it was Gravenberch, who was so dominant in midfield, there were moments where he looked like he was playing at 2x speed compared to everyone else, bar Dominik Szoboszlai. Perhaps it was the sheer range of his influence that stood out the most: Early on he popped up in the box to exchange passes and tee up Mohamed Salah for a goal; then later he somehow ended up as the last man, cleaning up a loose ball and recycling it.
This Liverpool team needs peak Gravenberch to stay stable. Atleti found that out the hard way.
Laurens: I’ll choose Kylian Mbappé because once again, the striker saved the day and carried Real Madrid. It is happening pretty much in every game so far this season. This is his team now, and he is their guide. Nobody knows where the Merengues would be without him, but we all know that they would not be with five wins in five games in all competitions.
The France star scored two more goals on Tuesday against Marseille, taking his tally to the season to six in five matches, and he also ranks first in Europe for touches in the opposition box, shots and shots on target so far this campaign. At 26, he has already reached 57 goals in the Champions League, as many as Thomas Müller and only behind Raúl (71), Karim Benzema (90), Robert Lewandowski (105), Lionel Messi (129) and Cristiano Ronaldo (140).
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Moreno: Dortmund conceding late is nothing new
Alejandro Moreno says ‘this is who Borussia Dortmund are’ as they concede a last minute equaliser against Juventus.
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Ogden: Which of Real Madrid’s two star right backs can be trusted when it matters? Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s slow start at Madrid hit another bump in the road with a hamstring injury against Marseille that could keep him out for two months, while his replacement Dani Carvajal earned himself a red card — and suspension — for a headbutt on goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli late in the second half.
Both Alexander-Arnold and Carvajal are world-class right backs with Champions League-winning pedigree, but Alexander-Arnold has had a bad 12 months with injuries, and that will be a concern for Alonso. Carvajal, who is 34 in January, has also had a tough time with fitness problems, but he also now has to deal with a suspension after losing his discipline against Marseille.
Marcotti: What’s up with Vinícius Júnior? It was less than a year ago that everyone was convinced Vini Jr. was definitely going to win the Ballon d’Or. Including the player himself and Real Madrid, of course, and we all know what happened when they found out that wasn’t the case.
Since Alonso arrived — and including the Club World Cup — the Brazil star has lasted 90 minutes just once. And, of course, he was benched for Rodrygo against Marseille. You wonder if this pattern continues and he and Rodrygo (who played on the right the last couple years but is obviously a natural left-sided forward) will continue to alternate. Especially if Franco Mastantuono (who is excellent and showed it again against Marseille) continues to make the right flank his own.
Maybe it’s true what everyone suspected (but Alonso always denied) that Real Madrid wanted to move on Rodrygo over the summer. Now that he’s staying, Alonso rightly wants to get a contribution out of him, and that means putting him on the right, especially if Vini Jr. gives off his all-too-familiar “I-don’t-feel-like-tracking-back” vibes.
There’s a contract extension looming for Vini Jr., as well as a World Cup. At what point does this begin to rub him up the wrong way? And how confident must Alonso be in his own authority if he’s willing to make these decisions?
Tighe: Dortmund gonna Dortmund. The game clock reads 93 minutes and Borussia Dortmund are 4-2 up at Juventus on the opening night of this season’s Champions League. Hell of a result, right?
Wrong. And wrong in the most painfully Dortmund way possible.
In the next three minutes, they would contrive to concede twice and throw away two points. First, Ramy Bensebani tries to be a little too cute in the corner, gives the ball away, and seconds later Vlahovic has the ball in the net. A minute later, most of Dortmund’s team are caught upfield, allowing Juve to counter, Vlahovic to cross and Lloyd Kelly — yes, Lloyd Kelly — beat an offside trap that looked like it had been staggered on a mountain face and head home an unchallenged equaliser.
Even by BVB’s standards, this defied belief.
Laurens: I just love that Champions League football is back, and back with a bang. Tuesday and Wednesday were epic with the second half of Juventus vs. Borussia Dortmund,, the drama at the Bernabéu, the newcomers’ performances, Arteta’s winning coaching, Liverpool’s late winner and Michael Olise‘s brilliance for Bayern against Chelsea.
We have seen amazing goals already like the ones from Karim Adeyemi (Dortmund vs. Juventus), Anouar Ait El Hadj (Union St.-Gilloise vs. PSV Eindhoven), Sondre Brunstad Fet (Bodo/Glimt vs. Slavia Prague), Yildiz (Juventus vs. Dortmund) and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (PSG vs. Atalanta). We have had plenty of nutmegs — hello, Nicolas Pépé, Cole Palmer, Noni Madueke and Mastantuono! And we’ve had a proper keeper blunder (sorry to Villarreal‘s Luiz Júnior, for his error against Tottenham). And we still have more action to come on Thursday night with Kevin De Bruyne‘s return to the Etihad as Napoli visit Manchester City, an explosive Newcastle date with Barcelona at St. James’ Park and plenty more goals to come!
This St. John’s team can’t shoot.
The Red Storm are 182nd nationally in field goal percentage (45.2) and 225th from 3-point range (33.2).
It doesn’t seem to matter. Rick Pitino’s team (30-6) has been opportunistic, physical and fearless in reaching the Sweet 16, where it will play Duke on Friday.
It is reminiscent of Pitino’s 2012-13 Louisville team that shot just 33.3% from behind the arc (216th nationally) yet won the national title. It’s a far cry, however, from his underdog 1987 Providence team, which reached the Final Four thanks to his then-revolutionary idea of prioritizing the newly created 3-pointer. Those Friars hit 42.2% of them.
Pitino can win one way, or the other, or back again; from the Camelot of Kentucky to the late-career rehab of Iona College.
The years change, the teams change. The players, style of play, rules, roster construction, and even the cuts of his neatly tailored suits change.
One thing remains constant.
Pitino wins.
The case for Rick Pitino as the greatest college basketball coach of all time takes some contorting, but each year it gains credence. The 73-year-old coached his first game 50 years ago, in 1976 as an interim at Hawai’i. He now appears better than ever.
Pitino’s 915 victories, .743 winning percentage and two national titles will never compare numerically to, say, Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,202 victories, Adolph Rupp’s .822 win percentage or John Wooden’s 10 championships.
Part of that is by choice — Pitino spent eight seasons in the NBA, including six as head coach in New York and Boston. He also had various NCAA and personal scandals that made him a temporary pariah and, to some, permanently ruined his reputation.
His legacy will always be linked to scandal. He had that Louisville national title, along with 123 victories, “vacated” by the NCAA as a result of its investigation into allegations that a staffer provided escorts at on-campus parties for players and recruits. The program was also at the center of a federal fraud and bribery case involving Adidas.
For a stretch, he was essentially professionally exiled to Greece, where he coached pro ball for two seasons, winning a couple of titles there, too.
Outside the lines, Pitino is one thing. Inside them, though, is a different story. Had he just stayed at Kentucky in 1997 rather than jump to the Celtics — and kept his business in order (perhaps unlikely) — there is no telling what his career totals would be. UK was rolling, after all, winning another national title under Tubby Smith the season after Pitino left.
But he has always bounced around, rescuing six bottomed-out programs (Boston University, Providence, Kentucky, Louisville, Iona and St. John’s). In the season before his arrival, those teams were a combined 76-105 (.419).
No matter.
He led five of them back to the NCAA tournament within two seasons (or in UK’s situation, when a tournament ban concluded). At BU, it took four.
This isn’t to punish other great coaches who built national powers and then stuck with it. Maintaining a juggernaut isn’t simple and deserves credit. Yet, Pitino has proven it was him, not the institution, that made the difference.
Pitino has had talented players (especially the 1996 Kentucky national champions), but he has coached just three future NBA All-Stars — Donovan Mitchell, Jamal Mashburn and Antoine Walker.
This isn’t as impressive as Bob Knight, who won 902 games and three titles despite having just one player who would become an NBA all-star (Isiah Thomas), but it’s also not the Hall of Fame parade that Dean Smith (UNC), Krzyzewski (Duke) or Wooden (UCLA) had.
Pitino, a former New York point guard, is about basketball. He still conducts one-on-one development workouts. He still grinds game footage. He still finds the way to maximize what he has — sometimes with a full-court press, sometimes the old 2-3 zone he learned as an assistant under Jim Boeheim.
He still communicates, harshly but honestly, in a way, for example, that not only empowers current guard Dylan Darling to confidently call for the ball in the waning seconds of Sunday’s victory over Kansas, but allows Pitino to trust “Church Bells” — a nickname stemming from Pitino’s description of Darling’s, uh, fearlessness — to pull it off, even with his off hand.
Pitino’s career has bridged multiple eras; not just in style of play (he coached pre-shot clock and 3-point line), but style of pay. As an assistant at Hawai’i in the mid-1970s, the NCAA dinged him for giving players coupons to McDonald’s. Now, they can own a franchise.
Some of his best work has come recently.
He returned from his Greek purgatory to lead low-major Iona to two NCAAs in three seasons. At age 70, he took over St. John’s, and won consecutive Big East regular-season and tournament titles. Now, the Red Storm are in the Sweet 16 for the first time this century.
The players still listen. They still defend. They still hustle. They still believe.
They still win, even when they can’t shoot all that well.
That’s a pure college basketball coach, perhaps the best there has ever been.
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Cam Newton views adding 18th regular-season game as ‘good business,’ questions how preseason games will work
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As the NFL continues to expand its reach and capitalizes on the ever-growing popularity of the sport both domestically and globally, talk of adding an 18th regular-season game has become more apparent.
The NFL Players’ Association has said players “have no appetite for a regular-season 18th game,” while owners like New England Patriots’ Robert Kraft believes “every team will go 18” at some point sooner than later.
For former MVP quarterback Cam Newton, he’s taking a step back and viewing an 18th regular-season game from both sides. That assessment has him believing preseason games, which every team plays three before Week 1 of the regular season, will become even more diluted.
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Cam Newton of team J Balvin looks on against team Druski during the Super Bowl LX Celebrity Flag football game on YouTube at Moscone Center South on Feb. 7, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
“Man, it’s a lot on the body,” he told Fox News Digital about another regular-season game added to the schedule, while discussing his Iconic Saga Productions partnership with Offscript Worldwide. “If you really look at it, what’s happening is they’re devaluing preseason games as we know it to be, and they’re trying to put it on the back end.
“Because, one thing we all know — and I say this with all due respect — America’s new game has been, for some time, American football. It’s just good business. The Super Bowl garners a global audience that no sporting event can attest to, especially domestically in the United States. So, they know, the more they give, the more they’re able to garner from difference audiences.”
So, as Newton sees this simply as “good business” for the NFL, he’s implying the league will once again drop a preseason game from a team’s schedule to add the 18th game. It’s what happened when the 17th regular-season game was added in 2021, as the preseason schedule was reduced from four to three games.
“I think, when you’re talking about the 18th game, it really comes down to if teams are going to really focus on preseason, or negate preseason altogether, just to get right into the regular season. That’s going to be interesting to kind of see,” Newton added.
While the NFLPA has pushed back at the potential of an 18th game, citing player safety as one of the main reasons behind keeping the schedule as is, others like Buffalo Bills left tackle Dion Dawkins see it as inevitable.
“It’s going to happen either way,” he told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
“Then, 20 years later, guess what? We’re talking about a 19th, then we’ll be talking about a 20th.… Then it’s like, ‘Yeah, we are combat athletes all year long.’ But who knows,” Dawkins added.
ESPN analyst Cam Newton is on the set of “First Take” on Feb. 6, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)
For now, 17 games is what the NFL schedule will read in 2026. But, as Dawkins noted, who really knows?
To Newton’s point, it’s simply good business as demand continues to skyrocket for the league as each season passes.
EXPANDING CONTENT REACH WITH OFFSCRIPT
Newton may not be on the field any longer, but he remains tuned in with the NFL and every other sports moment through his content creation, most notably his “Funky Friday” and “4th & 1 with Cam Newton” shows as part of his Iconic Saga Productions.
Newton and his production team announced a major partnership with Offscript Worldwide, a creator-owned ecosystem that connects culture-shaping brands and platforms under one roof, which includes REVOLT Sports and 3BlackDot.
Offscript unveiled this new partnership at the 2026 IAB NewFronts, where they will begin collaborating with Newton’s independent production powerhouse, integrating his hit shows and amplifying the reach of athlete-driven storytelling for global brands.
Cam Newton on radio row at the Super Bowl LIX media center on Feb. 7, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
“When you really think about Offscript, it’s like the ecosystem that bridges so many different facets of our lives, from sports, to culture, to lifestyle and so many different things,” Newton explained. “That transition for me wasn’t foreign. Instead of training to be the best football player, or the best athlete. Now, I’m just training to be the best content creator I can possibly be.
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“I just always want to be a beacon of the person, in a lot of ways, figured it out as I went. I’m just so thrilled that Offscript gives me and Iconic Saga the opportunity to continue to believe in our vision, and we’re not able to do these things without great partners like this.”
As this partnership kicks off, Newton will also be hitting the road for the “4th & 1 College Tailgate Experience,” visiting HBCU’s across the U.S. to celebrate their heritage and shine a national spotlight on student-athletes, academic programs, and the unique game-day culture that defines what it means to be an HBCU.
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Phil Foden could reportedly leave Manchester City in the hunt for more first-team football, while Julián Álvarez‘s much-speculated exit from Atlético Madrid this summer may not come to fruition.
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TRENDING RUMORS
– Manchester City attacking midfielder Phil Foden is ready to leave the club this summer. Football Insider reports that the 25-year-old has been frustrated by his limited playing time recently, and if an agreement over a new contract isn’t reached in the next months, he will look to move to a team in Europe, where several top clubs would be keen on him. Foden has been named on the bench by manager Pep Guardiola in four of his last five appearances across all competitions.
– Atlético Madrid are preparing to ward off interest in forward Julián Álvarez from Arsenal and Barcelona by offering him a new contract, Marca reports. The LaLiga side are believed to be readying a €10 million-per-season proposal that would place the 26-year-old on the highest salary at the club, with plans to make him their “flagship” player and successor to Antoine Griezmann, who will leave for Orlando City at the end of the season. Alvarez has caught the attention of both Arsenal and Barça following his impressive form in the current campaign, but it is said that there is optimism among the Wanda Metropolitano hierarchy that he will sign an extension.
– Chelsea are interested in AC Milan defender Strahinja Pavlovic, according to Corriere dello Sport. The Premier League club are reported to have already made contact with the 24-year-old’s representatives and are now monitoring his situation at the San Siro. It is expected that an offer worth at least €40 million would be required to get a deal over the line, with the Milan seeing him as a key figure among their squad. Pavlovic has scored four goals in 26 league matches this season, while he also starts regularly for Serbia at international level.
– Manchester United are lining up a move at the end of the season for Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali, according to The Daily Mail. The 25-year-old is reported to be made United’s priority option amid plans to strengthen their midfield, while club captain Bruno Fernandes has also provided his approval of the proposed addition. Tonali, who has made 47 appearances across all competitions for the Magpies this season, has also previously been linked with Arsenal and Manchester City.
– Barcelona left-back Alejandro Balde is on the radar of Manchester City, Manchester United, and Aston Villa. Mundo Deportivo reports that all three Premier League clubs have made inquiries regarding a potential deal for the 22-year-old, and while he wants to stay put at Barça, they could be willing to consider moving him on if they receive a “substantial” offer. Balde, contracted at Spotify Camp Nou until the summer of 2028, is seen as Barça’s first choice starter on the left side of the defense.
ESPN EXCLUSIVES
– OL Lyonnes are close to convincing midfielder Caroline Weir to leave Real Madrid as a free agent this summer. Read
– Saudi Pro League side Al Ittihad have resumed work on a deal for Mohamed Salah after the Liverpool forward announced Tuesday that he will leave the club at the end of the season. According to a source, Al Qadsiah are the only other Saudi Arabian club with the finances and ambition to rival Al Ittihad. Read
– MLS clubs Inter Miami and LA Galaxy, along with Saudi Pro League side Al Ittihad, are interested in signing Manchester United midfielder Casemiro on a free transfer for next season. Read
– Barcelona are considering an attacking shake-up which would include listening to offers for forward Ferran Torres and the arrival of up to two new forwards. Read
OTHER RUMORS
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– Barcelona are looking at Osasuna winger Victor Munoz, but a deal could be difficult due to Real Madrid holding 50% of the playing rights on his contract that also includes a clause for them to sign him back. (Mundo Deportivo)
– Real Madrid are continuing to monitor Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konate. (AS)
– Manchester United remain interested in Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson. (Mirror)
– Paris Saint-Germain winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has no interest in leaving the Parc des Princes this summer amid links to Arsenal. (Daily Mail)
– Chelsea, Newcastle, and Brighton are battling to win the race to sign FC Koln forward Said El Mala. (TEAMtalk)
– Arsenal defender Myles Lewis-Skelly is on the radar of Manchester United. (Express)
– Liverpool could sign two wingers this summer as they also look to land a player for the left-flank while finding a Mohamed Salah successor. RB Leipzig’s Yan Diomande is under consideration. (Ben Jacobs)
– Several top Premier League and Bundesliga teams are keeping tabs on FC Augsburg defender Noahkai Banks. (Rudy Galetti)
– Inter Milan remain keen on Roma midfielder Manu Kone. (Gazzetta dello Sport)
– Liverpool are among multiple Premier League clubs interested in Sunderland defender Lutsharel Geertruida. (TEAMtalk)
– Everton manager David Moyes is keen to sign West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek. (Football Insider)
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