Spot the odd one out. Everton, Newcastle, Tottenham, Barcelona.

Answer: Barcelona! Congratulations if you got it right – it was a really hard one. They’re the odd one out because they play in La Liga, and because they have won a major trophy in the past 20 years, and because they are the club that Luke Shaw will blatantly choose to play for next season given the option.

And allegedly, he has been given that option. The Express – via our dear friends Don Balon – claim the Catalan giants have “stepped up” their efforts to sign the Manchester United left-back this summer.

Everton, Newcastle and Tottenham are also apparently keen on the 22-year-old, but he is unlikely to care about that given that he has “already started negotiations” with the five-time European champions.

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Shaw would not necessarily be guaranteed a starting place at the Nou Camp, with the Express saying he will be brought in to “provide competition” to Jordi Alba. But even that sounds preferable to hanging around at Old Trafford, where Jose Mourinho keeps being mean to him.

A move to Barca would also reportedly be “welcomed by the player’s entourage”, whoever they are – presumably a group of football-loving wideboys who fancy a trip to the Costa Brava.

Bale wants to fight for Real Madrid place

Another pasty Brit who would prefer to remain within driving distance of the Costa Brava is Gareth Bale, who Spanish paper AS says has “no intention” of quitting Real Madrid.

The Welshman has become an “unnecessary” member of Zinedine Zidane’s squad after being omitted from the starting line-up in recent key games, but with his contract running until 2022 Los Blancos may have a job offloading him.

Bale is said to be “angry” at being benched for the midweek Champions League clash against Juventus – he thinks he would have scored three overhead kicks if he had played – but annoyingly for Zidane he is prepared to knuckle down and fight for his place.

Arsene Wenger could have gone to Madrid once, back when he was a management demigod. But those days are long gone, and now the Frenchman is reportedly set to be replaced as Arsenal manager by some geezer named Lucien Favre.

The Nice coach, a 60-year-old man from Switzerland, is said by L’Equipe to be on a “shortlist” of managers being lined up to succeed Wenger at the Emirates. He has also been linked with the Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund jobs, which sound better.

Meanwhile, Wenger is “confident” that Gunners midfielder Aaron Ramsey will sign a new deal despite his contract having just over a year left to run (Mail), Liverpool have been “boosted” in their pursuit of Shakhtar Donetsk’s Brazilian playmaker Bernard after Inter Milan pulled out of the race to sign him (Mirror) and Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino says it is “not a problem” for his Spurs players that their chairman Daniel Levy earns more money – £115,000 a week – than any of them (Times). Because he deserves it because he is just so nice.