Today’s fluff is the puzzle you can’t figure out Manchester City are in pole position to sign Benfica’s 19-year-old midfield prodigy João Félix – but he’ll come at a cost. According to the Sun, they can expect to pay the player’s €120m release clause i…
Today’s fluff heard it from those other boys Manchester City are desperate for another midfielder to add to their already glittering array of options in that area, with the Mirror saying they are “closing in on a £70m deal” for Atlético Madrid’s Saúl Ñ…
Today’s fluff is in too deep. There’s no way outArsenal might have failed in their pursuit of Gelson Martins last summer, with the winger eventually deciding to join Atlético Madrid, but thankfully he has turned out to be absolutely rubbish so they cou…
Today’s tell-all is full of vim and vigour Still buzzing after his goal against Chelsea on Sunday, Everton winger Richarlison will wake up to talk linking him with a summer move to Milan. When he left Watford last summer, the Brazilian’s transfer fee o…
• 21-year-old becomes Zinedine Zidane’s first signing after return• Centre-back agrees six-year contract with La Liga clubReal Madrid have announced the signing of Éder Militão from Porto, the 21-year-old centre-back becoming the first transfer since Z…
Today’s fluff believes the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is blowin’ in the windAt least when it comes to football, Britain is not a complete shambles in the eyes of Europe. It’s not just talented young English players who are ge…
• Fifa set to consider appeal before summer window opens• Club could seek interim ruling from Cas if it is rejectedFifa expects to consider Chelsea’s appeal against a two-window transfer ban before the market formally opens this summer, in effect allow…
Today’s fluff can stretch right up and touch the skyThe 25-year-old Real Socieded defender Diego Llorente is a summer target for both Liverpool and Everton, according to the Basque newspaper Noticias de Gipuzkoa. It reports that a figure of €30m has be…
Today’s fluff is out of whackBrendan Rodgers believes his Leicester players have “special things on the horizon”. The thing is that it might not be these particular Leicester players, because Brendan has money burning a hole in his pocket and, my word,…
Today’s fluff is out of whackBrendan Rodgers believes his Leicester players have “special things on the horizon”. The thing is that it might not be these particular Leicester players, because Brendan has money burning a hole in his pocket and, my word,…
The transfer window hasn’t changed much in the Premier League but some new signings are impressing on the continentBy Martin Laurence for WhoScoredA month after the January transfer window closed, one could almost forget it happened for most Premier Le…
Today’s fluff may be Beau Brummelly A massive transfer merry-go-round looks to be on the cards come the summer, if Ricardo Schlieper is to be believed. Schlieper is the agent of Ajax’s much-admired Argentinian left-back Nicolás Tagliafico, and told the…
Chelsea could reconsider contract policy or, at long last, lean more heavily upon academy graduates and give youth its chanceChelsea had been braced for Fifa sanction for some time and swiftly announced they would appeal against the two-window transfer…
• Sanction relates to dealings with foreign players under 18• Chelsea denied wrongdoing and can appealChelsea have been banned from the transfer market for two windows after Fifa found them guilty of a serious and systemic breach of the rules regarding…
Today’s fluff is broadly fineMarcus Rashford is good at football! To the surprise of no one apart from José Mourinho, the Manchester United ace is capable of doing lots of goals and assists! All he needs is an arm round the shoulder, a few words of enc…
Today’s rumours are poddingParis Saint-Germain have hunkered down alongside Bayern Munich and got on their marks in “the race” to sign Callum Hudson-Odoi from Chelsea this summer, although Zinedine Zidane, Frank Lampard, Emma Hayes, Laurent Blanc or wh…
Today’s fluff is the vicinityChelsea are already lining up replacements for Maurizio Sarri, who could receive 1,000 Nicorette patches as compensation for being sacked less than a year into his contract. The Italian is likely to be sacked after his team…
