{"id":141603,"date":"2025-10-23T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:58:07","slug":"football-gossip-santos-rashford-woltemade-guehi-zirkzee-kovacic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141603\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Santos, Rashford, Woltemade, Guehi, Zirkzee, Kovacic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester United have identified a six-man midfield shortlist including Chelsea&#8217;s Andrey Santos, Newcastle United&#8217;s Nick Woltemade has ambitions of playing for Bayern Munich, while the German champions could join the race for Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester United<\/b> are open to signing two new midfielders in 2026, with <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Chelsea&#8217;s<\/b> 21-year-old Brazil international Andrey Santos among a six-man shortlist that also includes <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Brighton<\/b> and Cameroon 21-year-old Carlos Baleba. <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/3672030\/man-united-midfielder-shortlist-transfer-news\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Talksport), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester United<\/b> forward Marcus Rashford, 27, wants to stay at <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Barcelona<\/b> beyond his season-long loan at the Spanish club, who have an option to sign the England international on a permanent deal at the end of the campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46697555\/marcus-rashford-previous-barcelona-man-united-transfer-talks-loan\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(ESPN), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Newcastle United&#8217;s<\/b> 23-year-old Germany striker Nick Woltemade still hopes to play for <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bayern Munich<\/b> in the future. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/sport\/fussball\/habe-ich-gehoert-bayern-reizt-woltemade-immer-noch-68fa2c5e59e2e09750709739\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Bild &#8211; in German), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Crystal Palace&#8217;s<\/b> England centre-back Marc Guehi, 25, is one of <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bayern Munich&#8217;s <\/b>preferred defensive targets, alongside <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Borussia Dortmund<\/b> and Germany&#8217;s 25-year-old Nico Schlotterbeck, should France international Dayot Upamecano, 26, not extend his contract or if South Korea&#8217;s Kim Min-jae, 28, is sold. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1981398095259697192\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Sky Sports Germany), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Everton<\/b> are ready to move to re-sign Brazil forward Richarlison, with <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tottenham<\/b> considering putting the 28-year-old on the market in January. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/spurs-increasingly-likely-sell-forward-everton-ready-pounce-sources\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(TeamTalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have identified a six-man midfield shortlist including Chelsea&#8217;s Andrey Santos, Newcastle United&#8217;s Nick Woltemade has ambitions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-141603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115426197884366293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}