Transfer news LIVE: Arsenal learn Alvarez price, Man Utd medical, Barcola to Liverpool latest

Will Liverpool sign PSG winger Bradley Barcola? That’s been one of the lingering questions throughout the transfer window and there still isn’t a definitive answer.

Signs point to it being a possibility as Barcola was left out of PSG’s two most recent matchday squads but a report from RMC Sport says that PSG boss Luis Enrique is not including him, nor Ibrahim Mbaye, until their transfer situations are resolved.

Both players have been linked with Liverpool.

However, in Barcola’s case the French champions aim to receive £140m plus for the winger while Liverpool want a much lower fee.

French media have said that an offer between £111m and £128m could be negotiated. In either case Liverpool will be paying a premium for the forward so they move ahead with their pursuit.

Arsenal will need to offer close to €150m for Julian Alvarez if Atletico Madrid are to consider selling their forward, that’s according to The Athletic.

The Spanish club will not sell him to Barcelona, which is good news for Arsenal, but the Premier League champions will not move until they have spoken to Alvarez’s camp.

They want to be sure he is willing and happy to move back to the Premier League before committing to the transfer and negotiating with Atletico.

After a dire opening game against Hull City, which they lost 2-0, Manchester United are in need of a pick me up.

They may get one in the coming days with the announcement of Carlos Baleba as a new midfielder.

The Red Devils agreed a £70m deal (£65m + £5m add ons) with Brighton to sign the midfielder who underwent a medical with United at the weekend.

There have been no updates since so we can assume Baleba passed the tests and is closing in on a switch to Old Trafford.

Baleba has long been of interest to United and he will join Andrey Santos and Youri Tielemans as part of Michael Carrick’s midfield rebuild.

Julian Alvarez has been rumoured to favour leaving Atletico Madrid this summer and was jeered on his return to the pitch against Villarreal yesterday.

Barcelona and Arsenal are the main parties interested in his signature but it seems as though Atletico will not sell him to a LaLiga rival.

That opens the door for a move to the Gunners which Alvarez now seems open to.

Fabrizio Romano says talks between Arsenal and Atletico took place on Friday to try and get a deal done. They understand Alvarez’s preference to move to Barca but want to remain up to date over the next week in case an agreement can be made.

It doesn’t as though a move is near but this could progress quickly as deadline day approaches.

Welcome to The Independent’s coverage of the summer transfer window.

There’s plenty happening as the window moves closer to deadline day with Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City still doing business to bolster their squads for the new campaign.

Though Arsenal and City began the season with wins, there’s improvements to be made by Liverpool and United who may need to strengthen over the next week.

We’ll have all the latest rumours, gossip and confirmed deals throughout the day sto stick with us.

Julian Alvarez was met with a chorus of jeers by aggrieved fans on his return to Atletico Madrid amid his attempts to force a move away from the club.

All eyes were on Atletico’s team sheet to face Villarreal on Sunday to see whether Alvarez would be involved as the club played their first home match of the season.

And while the 26-year-old was named on the bench, this did not mean things had been smoothed over – especially with the Atletico faithful, who sent him a brutal message as soon as he stepped onto the turf.

Guess who’s back in town – spread the word around. The boys are back, the boys are back. On the banks of the Thames, overlooking Tower Bridge, Richard Keys and Andy Gray toast their return to these shores and our league with a bottle of chilled champagne and tea served from good old English teapots into good old English teacups. With their exile in Qatar over, the deposed kings of early 2000s Sky Sports Premier League coverage have come home to reclaim what is theirs, delivering forthright opinions and hard truths with a vengeance. According to the tagline of their new podcast, Keys and Gray are “back and now they’re unleashed”.

Manchester City have agreed a €100m deal to sign Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, potentially providing an answer to Enzo Maresca’s mission to find a replacement for Rodri.

The Golden Ball winner joined Barcelona in a sizeable blow for the new City manager, who had spoken ahead of his league opener against Bournemouth about the job of filling such a void.

“How do we solve that problem? We try to find the new Rodri, it is what it is. [Before] Rodri arrived here, he didn’t win the Ballon d’Or, he didn’t win the Champions League, he didn’t win the Club World Cup. He joined the club, then he achieved many important things,” Maresca said.

“Now the target for us is to try to find the new Rodri. I was thinking on Thursday night, when David Silva was here, everyone was worried and Kevin [De Bruyne] arrived. When Sergio [Agüero] was here, everyone was worried [when he was going to leave] and Erling [Haaland] arrived. Fernandinho? Rodri arrived. It is just about this. When they leave, you need to be good at recruiting the next one.

“They are all similar, David, Kevin, Fernandinho, Rodri, Erling – it is normal, it is change, it is not a problem, go again and try to do the right things.”

Jacob Devaney has joined Hibernian on a season-long loan from Manchester United.

Hibs also have an option to make the 19-year-old midfielder’s move to Easter Road permanent.