{"id":293024,"date":"2025-07-26T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293024\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:13:10","slug":"transfer-news-live-liverpool-start-talks-chelsea-agreement-reached-gyokeres-punished-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293024\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Liverpool start talks, Chelsea agreement reached, Gyokeres punished | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the Premier League season is now just three weeks away, but there is still plenty of transfer activity to come. Business has ramped up this week, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/liverpool-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> signing Eintracht Frankfurt star Hugo Ekitike for a fee that could rise to \u00a379million, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/arsenal-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> finally agreeing a deal for Viktory Gyokeres.<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting CP striker is set to complete his medical during the Gunners&#8217; pre-season tour of Singapore today. Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/newcastle-united-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle<\/a> have been rocked by the news that Alexander Isak wants to leave the club. The club have responded by moving for RB Leipzig man Benjamin Sesko, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/manchester-united-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/chelsea-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> are also scrambling for new signings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Express Sport covers all of the latest transfer news and updates below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of the Premier League season is now just three weeks away, but there is still plenty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[9261,6167,748,6274,393,4884,108927,179,763,423,11811,100,56999,16,15,165],"class_list":{"0":"post-293024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-arsenal-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chelsea-fc","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-gyokeres-medical","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-manchester-united-fc","18":"tag-premier-league-news","19":"tag-transfer-news","20":"tag-transfer-news-live","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-viktor-gyokeres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919008057734840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293024","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=293024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}