Day five of the New Year, day three of the new rumour. Sardar Azmoun, Zenit St Petersburg striker is the newest name on a shopping list that already presents Lille’s Sven Botman, Atlético Madrid’s Kieran Trippier, Everton’s Lucas Digne, Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, River Plate’s Julián Álvarez, and South Devon’s Thomas Cobley.
We are all going to have to get used to this quick-witted. It is going to be a long month.
In the meantime, the turmoil over Romelu Lukaku’s letter to Internazionale is giving cover to a couple of Chelsea defenders making an escape.
Andreas Christensen, out of contract in the summer, may go for Barcelona in a cut-price deal, whilst Antonio Rüdiger is seeing a move to Real Madrid but will think about Bayern Munich, PSG or Juventus should talks unsuccessfully.
Barcelona also claim they are in an opine of Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland, possibly having found a lose £200 million down. Possibly the Catalan mendicant will raise the cash by discharging Ousmane Dembélé to Newcastle.
Barça are also cheerful of securing the services of Álvaro Morata, presently on loan at Juventus from Atletico Madrid, and discharging Philippe Coutinho.
