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It’s time for your Tuesday morning round-up of all the biggest and juiciest new Premier League transfer stories – and we’re going to kick things off up at Anfield, where a big-money player could be set to move on.
Sport Witness report on rumours from Italy which suggest that Serie A side Napoli are in “ongoing” talks with Liverpool over a deal for much-maligned striker Darwin Núñez just two years after his £85m move to Merseyside.
Napoli’s preferred signing would be Lille’s Jonathan David, but the agent’s fees are proving a stumbling block leading to a “parallel negotiation” over the Uruguayan forward. The Reds, meanwhile, are unsurprisingly keen to get rid of a player who has not lived up to his transfer fee.
In other Liverpool transfer news, TBR Football claim that Arne Slot’s side have sent scouts to watch £11m-rated Bologna defender Jhon Lucumi, with an “active interest” in the Colombian that is mirrored by Juventus and Inter Milan.
The 3AM Verdict: Napoli are one of several sides on the striker carousel this summer, and until the first few deals get over the line it’s impossible to meaningfully predict which forwards will go where – Darwin included. One club negotiating doesn’t mean that a deal will get done to move him on. The Lucumi link is new to us, so one to monitor rather than to have any strong belief or disbelief in for now.
Tottenham Hotspur ready to sell star for right price
While Pedro Porro has been “on the radar” of several European sides over the past few months, Spurs had always shown little inclination to sell the right-back – but that may be changing, according to Caught Offside.
They claim that Tottenham could “change their mind” and sell the Portuguese star for a fee of around €60-65m (£50-55m) if such an offer is made by one of the interested parties, such as Barcelona or Bayern Munich.
The article even claims that Manchester City are “monitoring” Porro, a rumour we haven’t seen in a little while amid suggestions that Pep Guardiola was really after Juventus’ Andrea Cambiaso to plug the hole at full-back. No suggestion that any official offers have been made, here.
The 3AM Verdict: We suspect that most of the teams who could conceivably afford Porro either don’t need him or are focusing their interest on other players, so our guess is that Porro probably stays put. The question is whether he will try to agitate for a move after a difficult season for the North London side, but there are no signs of that happening just yet.
West Ham in contact over Champions League finalist
Finally, a word from GiveMeSport, who suggest that another London side hoping to bounce back from a disappointing campaign – West Ham United – have “shown an interest” in Inter Milan defender Yann Bisseck, a regular starter for the Champions League finalists.
Despite being an important player and relatively new to the club, however, Inter are said to be “open” to a deal should they “receive the right bid” – not that there’s any word on what the actual asking price might be for the Germany international.
The article’s headline uses the phrase “make contact” to describe West Ham’s involvement in any potential move but there is no claim made of negotiations with the player or with Inter elsewhere in the story, so it’s less than clear as to how advanced the Hammers’ interest might be.
The 3AM Verdict: This is the second time we’ve seen West Ham linked with Bisseck in recent weeks, so there’s a relatively large amount of smoke over a move that would represent a serious coup. If Inter are selling, however, we expect interest from other clubs, so West Ham may have to pay top dollar. Likely to be worth it, however…