{"id":147434,"date":"2025-05-31T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147434\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:13:10","slug":"transfer-news-live-liverpool-make-big-wirtz-offer-chelsea-eye-branthwaite-wonderkid-kostoulas-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147434\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Liverpool make &#8216;big&#8217; Wirtz offer, Chelsea eye Branthwaite, wonderkid Kostoulas EXCLUSIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin De Bruyne latest<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City departing star Kevin De Bruyne is on the brink of joining Napoli.<\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne will become a free agent after his City\u00a0contract comes to an end in June.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gianlucadimarzio.com\/napoli-de-bruyne-calciomercato-news-31-maggio-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Di Marzio<\/a>, the playmaker has struck a deal to join the newly-crowned Serie A champions.<\/p>\n<p>The Partenopei are now looking to quickly wrap up a move for the Belgium international on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations are said to be a formality, with paperwork expected to be finalised tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old will then undergo a medical before penning a contract, with an official announcement to follow afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Sesko hijack<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United could hijack Arsenal\u2019s transfer deal for RB Leipzig star Benjamin Sesko.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bild\u2019s transfer insider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cfbayern\/status\/1928754196234272848\">Christian Falk<\/a>, the Gunners are already in talks to try and strike a deal for Sesko which could climb to as high as \u00a385million.<\/p>\n<p>However, Falk indicates that the North Londoners will not be allowed to complete the move without competition.<\/p>\n<p>That comes in the form of United, who are also looking to land a new striker.<\/p>\n<p>But Man Utd are said to have a secret weapon in trying to convince the Slovenia international about a deal, and that is their director of recruitment Christopher Vivell.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old was personally watched by Vivell back in April, with\u00a0Sun Sport revealing how he had a \u201cgentleman\u2019s agreement\u201d with Leipzig\u00a0to leave for around \u00a360m if a top club tables an offer.<\/p>\n<p>Vivell has already brought Sesko once before, to Red Bull Salzburg as a 16-year-old in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Potential Bruno replacement<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim will make a \u00a370million swoop for Sporting Lisbon star Pedro Goncalves if Bruno Fernandes heads for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes\u00a0has until Friday to tell\u00a0Al-Hilal\u00a0if he is up for a move to the Middle East, and the Saudis are ready to pay \u00a3100m if they get the thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>And if the playmaker does take the plunge on a three-year deal, the cash-strapped Red Devils could afford Goncalves \u2013 also known as Pote &#8211; with money to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim\u00a0would still prefer to keep his captain and insisted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/35195523\/ruben-amorim-bruno-fernandes-saudi-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he was confident<\/a>\u00a0of doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin De Bruyne latest Manchester City departing star Kevin De Bruyne is on the brink of joining Napoli.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1921,189,1922,79,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-147434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-live-blogs","9":"tag-section-sportfootball","10":"tag-sport-live-blogs","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-transfer-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114603806329905571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}