Transfer news live: Arsenal take key step towards Gyokeres deal, Liverpool latest, Mbeumo update

Anthony Elanga will become a Newcastle player after the Magpies agreed a deal with Nottingham Forest to sign the forward.

That’s according to Fabrizio Romano, who says a £55m deal has been agreed and that Elanga will sign a long-term contract.

Romano also reports that a medical has been booked in so the deal should be completed soon

Arsenal are working on a payment structure for a bid that could allow them to sign Eberechi Eze without a substantial sale this summer.

Mikel Arteta went into the window with a budget for Martin Zubimendi and a forward – currently expected to be Sporting’s Viktor Gyokeres – as well as one or two less expensive signings like Brentford’s Christian Norgaard, with any further signings expected to be funded by outgoings to comply with the Premier League’s profit and sustainability (PSR) rules. Arsenal are nevertheless serious about doing Eze and this summer, and there is a hope that a suitable deal can be worked out.

AC Milan have already lost Tijjani Reijnders to Manchester City, and Theo Hernandez may be bound for the Saudi Pro League, but new boss Massimiliano Allegri is hopeful that Mike Maignan and Rafael Leao will remain at the club.

“While Reijnders and Hernandez won’t be part of the team next season, (goalkeeper) Mike Maignan and (forward) Rafael Leao seem willing to stay,” Allegri said. The pair have both been linked with moves away, with Maignan connected particularly with Chelsea.

Real Madrid’s Luka Modric will join AC Milan after the Club World Cup, the Serie A club’s newly-appointed manager Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed.

The move means the 39-year-old midfielder, who announced in May that he would be leaving Madrid after the Club World Cup, will bring his 13-year spell at the Spanish giants to a close.

“Modric will arrive in August. He is an extraordinary player,” Allegri said in his first press conference as Milan manager.

We reported yesterday that Arsenal face stiff competition to sign Rodrygo from Real Madrid this summer with Paris Saint-Germain entering the fray.

But now Spanish website Defensa Central say that Real Madrid have agreed agree to Rodrygo’s move to PSG – that being having Vitinha be included in the deal, as he is a player that Xabi Alonso is targeting.

Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta has held face-to-face talks with Sporting in Portugal he tries to get a deal over the line for striker Viktor Gyokeres.

Sporting are looking for a total fee in region of £60-70m that would involve £10-15m of add-ons, that Arsenal are negotiating. If it goes that high, the English club are aiming for a kinder payment structure. Much of the discussion currently centres on how achievable the add-ons would be.

Well-placed BBC sources have now indicated that Berta flew to the Portuguese capital towards the end of last week for key discussions with Sporting counterparts. It is unclear if he returned to London over the weekend, but Berta’s Portugal trip provides a clear indication towards the level of Arsenal’s desire to finalise a deal quickly for Gyokeres.

Things have slowed on the Mbeumo to Man United front but here’s an update, of sorts, from Fabrizio Romano.

Romano says talks are set to continue this week and United remain determined to get a deal done.

There is no agreement with Brentford yet but Mbeumo wants to move to Old Trafford and United are working to make that happen.

Idrissa Gana Gueye has signed a new one-year contract with Everton with the option of a further year that could take him up towards his 38th birthday.

The 35-year-old midfielder, who was voted Everton’s player of last season by both their supporters and his fellow players, follows captain Seamus Coleman and centre-backs Michael Keane and Jarrad Branthwaite in signing new deals.

It also means that, with Coleman and Keane, Everton have kept three of their out-of-contract players, even as Abdoulaye Doucoure and Dominic Calvert-Lewin chose to move on and Ashley Young was released.

Former Aston Villa striker Jhon Duran has agreed a loan move to Fenerbahce just six months after joining Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League.

Duran, who has scored three goals in 17 appearances for the Colombian national side, headed to Saudi Arabia in a deal worth £71m in January, but will relocate again to Istanbul to link up with Jose Mourinho’s side.