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 The 22-year-old has been heavily tracked by Newcastle following an excellent season in the Bundesliga that yielded six goals and eight assists. However, Liverpool emerged as frontrunners to sign the player following a meeting with his agents earlier this week and now look increasingly likely to agree a deal after further discussions on Friday. Liverpool have a strong relationship with RB Leipzig and have allowed forward Fábio Carvalho to join them on a season-long loan. The 20-year-old moved to Anfield from Fulham last summer for an initial £5m and on a five-year contract. “He will now continue his development and gain more experience in Germany with Leipzig,” said a Liverpool statement.

 Rangers are closing in on deal for Cyriel Dessers. Agreement now imminent with Cremonese for Nigerian striker — here we go soon. 🚨🔵 #RangersFC Clubs have agreed on final fee and all documents are being drafted.

We are delighted to announce that Jen Beattie has signed a new contract with Arsenal. Jen played a key role for us last season, making a significant contribution on and off the pitch as we won the FA Women's Continental Tyres League Cup, reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Women’s Champions League, and secured qualification for the 2023/24 edition of that competition. The 32-year-old central defender has served us with distinction over two spells in North London. Jen first joined us in 2009, winning one league title, two FA Cups and two League Cups during this time before departing in 2013. The Scot then returned to Arsenal in 2019, after stints with Montpellier, Manchester City and Melbourne City. In total, Jen has made 157 appearances for us, scoring 32 goals along the way. Her most recent goal for us came in that UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final against Wolfsburg, played in front of a sell-out Emirates Stadium crowd. Jen was presented with the BBC Sports Personality of

 Chelsea have submitted their first new contract bid to Levi Colwill. Long term deal proposed few days ago, as called by @NizaarKinsella. 🚨🔵 #CFC Colwill will not make any decision now, he wants to speak to Pochettino after U21 Euros. Chelsea consider Levi ‘untouchable’.

  Cardiff will have to pay the entire transfer fee of Emiliano Sala to Nantes! FIFA have ordered the Welsh club to make the last two payments equaling €11m to Nantes so that the whole €17m is paid in full.

 Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano on pulling out of Declan Rice deal -  "If you look at what we did at the start of this project, there was a need for a lot of changes and investment - but not anymore. If you look at what we have done in the last five years, our level of investment in new players is well thought out. “We are not the top net-spenders of last year or the last three or five years. We have a platform where we know what to do & we can do it with time and intelligence.  “When we don't like a deal, we walk away and we don't panic.”

@gunnerblog on Rice: “It’s no longer between Edu & Karren Brady, it’s now a conversation between accountants effectively, people who are trying to make the numbers stack up for both sides, so this enormous transaction can take place.  It is complex, but there is no reason to panic. If anything, the people involved in making this deal are a little bit more relaxed now because everyone is on the same page.” [YouTube]  “West Ham can use the guarantee of future money from Arsenal to borrow against, to improve their cash flow in the short-term, but with interest rates high, that may not be favourable for them to do.  Arsenal, meanwhile, they’re in a position where they can borrow direct from someone very close to them - they have borrowed, up until this point, quite a substantial amount of money, into the hundreds of millions, from KSE - effectively Stan Kroenke & his business.”  “They can continue to do that & I suspect in order to get a deal the size of Declan Rice over the l