Barcelona's Brazil right-back Dani Alves, 31, has already agreed to join Manchester United on a free transfer when his contract expires next summer.
Galatasary's Turkey international defender Semih Kaya, 23, will opt for a move to Manchester United over fellow suitors Atletico Madrid. The Spanish club have stepped up their attempts to complete an £8m deal.
Paris St-Germain's French midfielder Adrien Rabiot, 19, is set to join Roma rather than Arsenal.
OTHER GOSSIP
England manager Roy Hodgson will have to fight to regain 19-year-old winger Raheem Sterling's trust, according to Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers.
Chelsea striker Diego Costa may need three weeks rest to recover from a hamstring problem. The 26-year-old Spain striker aggravated the injury in training this week.
The Daily Telegraph features an interview with Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino claims watching fellow Argentine Sergio Aguero, 26, play for Manchester City is like hearing classical music in his head. "It's like Mozart. Seriously. It is positive. Not Beethoven. Beethoven is too crazy," Pochettino said.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claims his team used the motivation of not being "clowns in the circus" when they picked up a 2-0 win at Anfield in April that went a long way to denying Liverpool the title.
Mourinho says he would have been given a stadium ban by the Football Association if he had shoved Arsene Wenger in the way the
during Chelsea's 2-0 win on 5 October.
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Hull manager Steve Bruce admits he tried to sign Danny Welbeck on loan from Manchester United before the 23-year-old England striker joined Arsenal on transfer deadline day.
Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos, 28, is likely to be held back for next Saturday's match with Barcelona, rather than face Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday, as he looks to return from a calf problem.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes thinks striker Peter Crouch, 33, can emulate Teddy Sheringham and play until he is 40.
BEST OF SOCIAL MEDIA
The Lazio tweet had the hashtag 'together'
Lazio's five Albanian and Serbian players were photographed together by the
club's official television station
in the wake of Tuesday's
between the two nations. Goalkeeper Etrit Berisha and former Sunderland midfielder Lorik Cana started for Albania, while Filip Djordjevic was on the bench for Serbia for the game in Belgrade that was called off after 41 minutes following a mass brawl. Albanian Thomas Strakosha and Serbian Dusan Basta were also in the photo.
AND FINALLY
Southampton's Italy striker Graziano Pelle, 29, turned his back on a career as a professional ballroom dancer in order to become a footballer.
Derry City's pre-FAI Cup final team photo went wrong when a bench holding seven players and manager Peter Hutton snapped.