A round-up of the biggest new Premier League transfer rumours, with news from Spurs, Chelsea, Wolves and more.
Sign up to our newsletter for the most distinctive football content delivered direct to your inbox
Sign up
Thank you for signing up!
Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to 3 Added Minutes, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Submitting...
Another day dawns, and another colossal pile of Premier League transfer rumours has done the rounds and landed on our desks – and we’ve corralled some of the biggest and best into our latest morning round-up of the biggest summer stories, starting with a tale for Tottenham Hotspur fans.
Not for the first time in the past few weeks, we’re seeing Spurs linked with a bid for a Crystal Palace and England star – but this time, it’s not Eberechi Eze, but Adam Wharton who Thomas Frank’s side have “shown an interest in”, per TBR Football.
Spurs are keen to add a fresh face or two in midfield and Wharton seems to be their dream signing, but getting a deal done won’t be easy. Partly, that’s because the former Blackburn Rovers man is said to be “in no rush” to leave Selhurst Park, and partly that’s because Palace will charge a small fortune for him.
It would take an “astronomical” sum to prise him away, apparently, likely “over £100m” and as a result Spurs are likely to look elsewhere, especially with £115m of their transfer budget going towards Mohammed Kudus and Morgan Gibbs-White. Apparently Manchester City also scouted Wharton before deciding against a bid, perhaps for the same financial reasons.
The 3AM Verdict: No doubt Spurs admire Wharton just as much as everyone else, but there’s next to no chance that the young midfielder will leave Palace this summer. He doesn’t seem to want to force a move, the price tag is colossal, and this is one that will wait until next summer.
Real Madrid plot ‘impossible’ Chelsea move
Over to a different part of London now for some news with might provoke a little concern amongst Chelsea fans. According to TeamTalk, who base their story on sources in the Spanish media, Real Madrid have set themselves an “impossible mission” – to sign Cole Palmer.
New Real head coach Xabi Alonso is said to be among Palmer’s “biggest admirers” and “sees him as a talent that would perfectly fit” his project. They were even said to be scouting him during the Club World Cup recently.
Unfortunately for Alonso, some of the Spanish sources who report Real’s interest in Palmer also claim that he is viewed as “untransferable” by Chelsea, and TeamTalk’s sources agree that the Blues “do not plan to sell Palmer any time soon” and it has been made “absolutely clear” to Real and any other suitors that he isn’t for sale. There’s also mention of PSG putting a massive bid together, but the source for that is Fichajes, so we’re ignoring that one.
The 3AM Verdict: Look, you never say never with Chelsea. They’ve made some interesting decisions in the transfer market in the name of turning a profit on young players, after all. But this one would be beyond the pale – without Cole Palmer, their project would be in pieces and one assumes that they are aware of that. Not happening in a million years.
Wolves could beat AC Milan to key signing
From two transfers that we don’t believe will happen to one that might: Sport Witness have a fresh update on Wolverhampton Wanderers’ pursuit of Almería defender Marc Pubill, and it’s good news for the Old Gold.
Wolves are said to have “pushed hard” to get hold of the 22-year-old right-back, and have “overtaken” their rivals for Pubill’s signature – AC Milan – in the bidding, to the extent that the Rossoneri could even be giving up altogether.
Atalanta reportedly saw a €20m deal for the player collapse a year ago, but now Wolves will only need to spend €15m (£13m) to secure Pubill’s signature, a potential bargain ahead of the new season. Apparently the “path is becoming clear” for the transfer to take place, but it doesn’t sound as though a formal offer has yet been lodged.
The 3AM Verdict: The primary source for this story is Marca, who are a little hit and miss when reporting on teams outside of Madrid, but it looks like the broad outline of the rumour is corroborated by local media as well, usually a promising sign. This doesn’t look likely to happen immediately but it starting to sound as though Wolves are in the box seat.