{"id":14918,"date":"2026-07-07T01:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=14918"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:48:53","slug":"chelsea-and-arsenal-in-major-transfer-battle-man-utd-confident-to-win-the-race-for-tonali-friday-transfer-talk-report-soccervoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=14918","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Arsenal in Major Transfer Battle, Man Utd Confident to Win The Race for Tonali, Friday Transfer Talk Report \u2013 SOCCERVOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Embed from Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Mail<\/strong> believe, Chelsea have joined Arsenal in the race for Bournemouth\u2019s French forward <strong>That is, Junior Kroupi<\/strong>but the Cherries insist the 19-year-old is not for sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <strong>Mirror<\/strong>Fulham\u2019s 29-year-old Wales midfielder <strong>Harry Wilson<\/strong> is among the players on Aston Villa manager Unai Emery\u2019s summer shopping list after being given a \u00a3100m transfer budget following the club\u2019s Europa League triumph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Man Utd are sure they can complete the transfer of 26-year-old Brazil midfielder <strong>Ederson<\/strong> from Atalanta and 26-year-old Italy midfielder <strong>Sandro Tonali<\/strong> from Newcastle this summer. This is based on a recent article from <strong>ESPN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-32616\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yahoo Sports<\/strong> believe, Brighton are in talks with Olympiacos to sign 26-year-old Portuguese right-back <strong>Costinha<\/strong> for about \u00a311m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arsenal and Juventus are watching Manchester City\u2019s 27-year-old midfielder <strong>Tijjani Reijnders<\/strong>who has had little playing time since joining last summer, according to a recent article from <strong>Team Talk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another story from <strong>Team Talk<\/strong> suggest, Newcastle will target Porto\u2019s 21-year-old Belgian forward <strong>Matias Fernandez-Pardo<\/strong> if England forward Anthony Gordon, 25, leaves the club this summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Atl\u00e9tico Madrid have identified Marc Cucurella as their TOP defensive target for the summer. \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>Diego Simeone\u2019s side are pushing to bring the Chelsea left-back back to La Liga, with Atl\u00e9tico viewing him as a priority signing ahead of next season. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>(Source: MARCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MANrBRtAcL\">pic.twitter.com\/MANrBRtAcL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/2057528097759695139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GMS<\/strong> believe, Manchester United view Newcastle left-back <strong>Lewis Hall<\/strong> as a leading option for next season, while Bayern Munich and Liverpool are also interested in the 21-year-old England international. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inter Milan may be looking to sign Arsenal\u2019s 31-year-old goalkeeper <strong>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/strong>. This is according to a recent report from <strong>Football Italia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SportsMole<\/strong> believe, Xabi Alonso\u2019s appointment as Chelsea manager could scupper Atletico Madrid\u2019s hopes of signing <strong>Marc Cucurella<\/strong>27, with the 44-year-old keen to keep hold of the Spain defender. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arsenal\u2019s 24-year-old Netherlands defender <strong>Jurrien Timber<\/strong> is set to be rewarded with a new contract by the club. This is according to a recent report from <strong>Cought Offside<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Football Insider<\/strong> believe Everton will be next for <strong>Liam Delap<\/strong> who is edging closer to exiting Chelsea, with Everton in pole position to sign the 23-year-old English striker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wolves<\/strong> confirm, <strong>Andre<\/strong> has signed a new four-year contract, securing his future with the club. The 24-year-old will stay at Molineux until 2030, even after relegation to the Championship. The club can extend his contract for an additional year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man City<\/strong> confirm, <strong>Pep Guardiola<\/strong> to step down at Man City. He has won 20 trophies at City in the last 10 years, and firmly established himself as one of the Premier League\u2019s greatest ever managers. Guardiola will continue his relationship at City with the City Football Group, by taking up a role as a Global Ambassador. The role will see him giving technical advice to the clubs in the group, working on specific projects and collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>A TRUSTED SOURCE ON  LIVERPOOL NEWS<br \/>\n\t\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images The Mail believe, Chelsea have joined Arsenal in the race for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}