Joseph Gabriel

It is official. Rodri is a Barcelona player, or as good as one, with the two clubs having reached full agreement on a transfer that brings to a close one of the most closely followed sagas of the entire summer window. Fabrizio Romano, whose confirmation carries as much weight in the transfer market as almost … Read more

Pedro Neto has agreed personal terms over a £51 million exit from Chelsea, and the identity of his next club is the part of this story that will genuinely surprise a lot of people who had spent the summer assuming his next move would take him to another Premier League dressing room. For weeks, the … Read more

Manchester City have started to accept that Rodri is going to Barcelona, and the more you look at how this saga has unfolded over the past few weeks, the more obvious it becomes that this was never really going to end any other way. This is not a club digging in its heels, refusing to … Read more

Liverpool have opened talks with Rio Ngumoha over a new long-term contract, and the message coming out of the club is about as confident as these things ever get this early in a negotiation: an agreement is expected, the two sides are aligned on the broad principle, and it is now really just a matter … Read more

Manchester City are closing in on one of the defining signings of their summer, with the club now understood to be on the verge of completing an £85 million deal for Ayyoub Bouaddi, the eighteen-year-old Lille and Morocco midfielder who has spent the past few months turning himself from a promising Ligue 1 prospect into … Read more

Manchester City have gone back to Enzo Fernandez’s camp, and they have done it even after letting Chelsea’s self-imposed Friday deadline pass without meeting it, which tells you almost everything you need to know about how this saga is going to play out over the coming weeks. Chelsea wanted certainty. They wanted the kind of … Read more