{"id":15269,"date":"2026-07-08T04:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:39:05","slug":"barcelona-abandon-kane-chase-but-eye-leao-loan-man-united-midfield-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15269","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona abandon Kane chase but eye Leao loan; Man United midfield shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Tuesday&#8217;s transfer rumours include Barcelona&#8217;s stance on Harry Kane and Rafael Leao, and Manchester United&#8217;s five-man midfield shortlist.<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Barcelona have given up hope of landing <b>Harry Kane <\/b>this summer. The Spanish champions had earmarked Kane as a potential successor to <b>Robert Lewandowski<\/b>but have now called it quits in their pursuit.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">According to El National Catalonia, Barca believe a move for <b>Kane <\/b>is &#8216;unrealistic&#8217;. However, the La Liga champions are confident of landing <b>Rafael Leao<\/b>. Barca want to sign the AC Milan winger on loan, with a deal of similar structure to the one that brought <b>Marcus Rashford<\/b> to the Nou Camp last summer. <b>Lion<\/b> is ready to leave Milan and has talked up La Liga as a potential destination.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">After missing out on <b>Matthew Fernandes<\/b> and <b>Elliot Anderson<\/b>Manchester United have put together a five-man midfield shortlist of alternatives. <b>Aurelien Tchouameni <\/b>and<b> Alex Scott<\/b> are the leading names on the list, while the club are also considering approaches <b>Felix Nmecha, Ayoub Bouaddi<\/b> and <b>Sander Berge.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Free-spending Spurs, meanwhile, are looking to loosen the pursestrings again. CaughtOffside claim that the North Londoners are keen on Manchester City forward <b>Omar Marmoush<\/b>and are prepared to rival Juventus, Galatasaray, and Bundesliga sides to get a deal done. City want around \u00a351m for the Egyptian.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Frank Lampard<\/b> is looking to get the band back together at Coventry City. The ex-Chelsea boss wants to bring former Blues <b>Ruben Loftus-Cheek<\/b> and <b>Fikayo Tomori<\/b> to Coventry, with both free to leave AC Milan this summer. TransferFeed report that Coventry are working on a double deal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Galatasaray have joined the list of clubs interested in signing <b>Iroegbunam Team<\/b> from Everton. The 23-year-old can leave if a suitable bid comes in this summer, with Hull City also hot on the midfielder. Everton value <b>Iroegbunam<\/b> at around \u00a320m.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Finally, Newcastle are stepping up their pursuit of SC Freiburg midfielder <b>John God.<\/b> Backed by a war-chest topped up by Sandro <b>Tonali&#8217;s<\/b> transfer to Spurs, the Magpies have been informed financial demands, report Sky Germany. Freiburg are currently demanding around \u20ac60M after the 20-year-old impressed for Switzerland at the World Cup.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s transfer rumours include Barcelona&#8217;s stance on Harry Kane and Rafael Leao, and Manchester United&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","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\/15269","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=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}