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Hot Football Transfer Gossip: Berahino, Niasse, Griezmann, Hazard, Stones
With just two more days of transfer activity permitted this season, you’d expect there’d be world class footballers waving at each other from helicopters in the skies above England’s great metropolises this afternoon as they zig-zag around the country searching for the most favourable personal terms. But disappointingly, all the Sunday papers seem to have for us is a load of rumours we’ve heard before that won’t happen until the summer anyway.
The Mail on Sunday leads on Chelsea lining up £60m-rated Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann IF they sell Eden Hazard to Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season. Knew that.
The Sunday Mirror says Manchester City have emerged as favourites to sign John Stones from Everton for £50m, although Chelsea remain interested. Bored already.
And the Sunday People predicts that Real Madrid are going to bid £23m for David de Gea in the summer. Whatevs.
But what about stuff that might actually happen in the next 36 hours? It’s not looking that explosive.
We already know, for example, that Saido Berahino is staying at West Brom because the Baggies are refusing to do business with his two suitors Tottenham and Newcastle. Even Saido must have accepted it by now, the poor lad.
But hold on. HOLD ON. Because the Sunday Times says the Magpies have not given up, and are prepared to launch a club record £24m for the striker that would even eclipse what the Baggies were offered by Spurs in the summer.
Saido’s ears prick up.
And there’s more. The Mirror predicts that Tottenham will also make “one last bid” for Berahino before the deadline passes. And who could blame them, given that they are currently trying to win their first league title for 55 years with just one striker.
Saido’s mind starts doing cartwheels. Could this be the Hollywood ending he dreamed of? Or are we in for a sequel of his video nasty with chairman Jeremy Peace?
Maybe this deadline day could be exciting after all.
For instance, the Sun on Sunday claims that Everton are on the brink of signing “monster striker” Oumar Niasse from Lokomotiv Moscow. And they mean a good kind of monster, we think. Niasse is a 25-year-old, £13.5m-rated Senegal international who the Sun says “would be an ideal replacement for Romelu Lukaku” if he quits Goodison Park in the summer.
West Brom are tipped by the Daily Star Sunday to spend some of their (potential) Berahino money - £8m of it to be precise - on QPR winger Mat Phillips.
Leicester look certain to sign a striker by tomorrow, with Chelsea’s £11.5m Loic Remy the hot favourite (Independent) and Crystal Palace’s £7m Dwight Gayle an apparent back-up, although Swansea also want him (Mirror).
And if Swansea get him, and Newcastle don’t get Berahino, then the Sunday Telegraph’s prediction that Bafetimbi Gomis is on his way to St James’s Park for £7m could be correct.
Finally, Stoke have disappointed us all by pulling out of a “club record” deal for Porto midfielder Giannelli Imbula and also rejecting a £10m offer for Mame Diouf from an unknown foreign club (Telegraph). Boring.