Today’s tittle-tattle is feeding off scraps
After all that huffing and puffing, appealing and small print-raking, Chelsea’s return to the transfer arena after their ban was all a bit of a damp squib, but they remain active in the gossip market … the only market that counts. Now the window has slammed shut (can’t anyone ever close it gently and quietly?) all sorts of rumours are flying. For a start, Frank Lampard wants a goalkeeping upgrade on Kepa Arrizabalaga, who arrived amid much fanfare for a whopping £71.6m 18 months ago but has struggled this season. And the man he has in mind is Burnley’s Nick Pope. But he’ll face a battle with club high-ups over that one.
Up front, the Daily Star is putting two and two together and making five in suggesting that Timo Werner could be on his way to the Bridge in the summer. “I am open for everything,” he told the German newspaper Kicker. “I was over in America for a holiday recently and English football was on all of the time. That’s an exclamation mark for the Premier League. But there are also big, famous clubs and it would certainly be fun playing there.” So, done deal then.
Liverpool and
Manchester United, also keen, will have something to say about that.