{"id":4213,"date":"2026-05-05T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:19:24","slug":"lampard-eyes-ross-barkley-reunion-juventus-and-real-madrid-lock-horns-over-tijjani-reijnders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Lampard eyes Ross Barkley reunion; Juventus and Real Madrid lock horns over Tijjani Reijnders"},"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>Today&#8217;s transfer talk includes Coventry City&#8217;s potential first signing since promotion, and two European giants in the hunt for Tijjani Reijnders. Here are all the latest transfer rumours.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Coventry City will play Premier League football for the first time in 25 years next season, and <b>Frank Lampard<\/b> is on the lookout for proven top-tier quality.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">According to Alan Nixon, via Give Me Sport, Lampard wants to reunite with ex-Chelsea midfielder <b>Ross Barkley.<\/b> The 32-year-old&#8217;s deal at Aston Villa expires in the summer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Tijjani Reijnders<\/b> is considering his future after falling out of favour at Manchester City. The Dutchman has faded following a strong start at the Etihad and there are some European heavyweights heading the queue to sign him.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Football Insider claim that Juventus lead the chase to bring the ex-AC Milan midfielder back to Serie A, though El Nacional name Real Madrid as rivals to Italian interest in his services. A fee of around \u00a350m could be enough to get a deal done.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Sticking in Spain, Barcelona are reportedly closing in on their first signing of the summer. The Catalans are close to completing a deal for Manchester City captain <b>Bernardo Silva<\/b>who is leaving England on a free transfer at the end of the season. (Barca Universal).<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">One player also keen on a switch to Spain is <b>Marc Guiu<\/b> Unhappy with his lack of minutes, the Chelsea youngster is eyeing a return to La Liga. However, Mundo Deportivo report that the Blues are keen to send the Spaniard out on loan in the Premier League, after a season-long stint at Sunderland was cut short.<\/div>\n<p>Finally, a number of Premier League clubs are battling it out for Borussia Dortmund defender <b>Daniel Svensson<\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Liverpool like the 24-year-old as a potential replacement for <b>Andy Robertson,<\/b> though Fussballdaten claim Arsenal and Leeds United are also in the mix. English clubs are not alone in pursuing the player, with both Milan sides and Atalanta vying to take him to Serie A.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s transfer talk includes Coventry City&#8217;s potential first signing since promotion, and two European giants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4213","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\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}