Hot Football Transfer Gossip: Lewandowski, Stones, Herrera, Nolan

What a season it’s been for Robert Lewandoski. He scored five goals in seven seconds or whatever it was against Wolfsburg, he’s been pinging them in in the Champions League, banging them in in the Bundesliga and single-handedly dragging Poland towards Euro 2016. Guess it all had to come crashing down sooner or later, and now it has: he’s been linked with Liverpool.

The Sunday Mirror reports that former Borussia Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp is keen to work again with the striker he lost to Bayern Munich, painfully, on a free transfer 15 months ago. Swapping European domination and Philipp Lahm for a mid-table Premier League scrap and Dejan Lovren may sound like an unappetising move for Lewandowski, but the Mirror points out that Guardiola “remains unconvinced” by the Polish striker, even though he keeps playing him and he keeps scoring goals. Weird.

Lewandowski will certainly feel wanted by Klopp, who signed the player for peanuts from Poland five years ago and calls his subsequent rise to superstardom “the biggest satisfaction you can get”. Maybe let’s revisit this one if Klopp manages to lift Liverpool out of their mid-table scrap and into next season’s Champions League.

Moving down the league table to relegation strugglers Chelsea, the Sunday Express reports that Roman Abramovich is ready to back Jose Mourinho with big funds in January so that he can try – and most likely fail – to sign John Stones for 30-odd million quid again. But it’s the thought that counts.

Moving lower still, and the most inevitable piece of transfer gossip of the month is that new Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce is considering a move for Kevin Nolan, his former West Ham captain and all-round favourite guy. The Telegraph notes that Nolan’s Newcastle connections could make the move an unpopular one, as could the fact that Nolan hasn’t been very good for a while.

Manchester United could lose Ander Herrera to Barcelona, who according to the Daily Star Sunday are plotting some kind of “£24m Old Trafford blitz”. Not sure that buying Ander Herrera constitutes a “blitz”, but fair enough.

Meanwhile, the Sun on Sunday says Victor Wanyama will reject Southampton’s latest contract offer because he wants to sign for Tottenham, but we could have told them that ages ago.

And finally, La Liga side Getafe are said by the Metro to be “closely monitoring” Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina, which means they can’t have missed him throwing the ball into his own net against Olympiakos last week and will therefore presumably have no interest in signing him.

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