{"id":303924,"date":"2025-07-30T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303924\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:46:12","slug":"transfer-news-james-trafford-nick-pope-and-aaron-ramsdale-latest-plus-liverpool-newcastle-pre-season-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303924\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: James Trafford, Nick Pope and Aaron Ramsdale latest, plus Liverpool &#038; Newcastle pre-season updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle open talks to sign Southampton&#8217;s Ramsdalepublished at 13:34 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>13:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ac19b0fc-d8e9-4783-9881-4b00877f7064.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Nizaar Kinsella<\/strong><br \/>BBC Sport football news reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aaron Ramsdale\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ba427d4b-cb32-4e4e-b928-aaec7dbef77e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle have opened talks with Southampton to sign England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Negotiations are at an early stage as Newcastle seek to bring Ramsdale in either on loan or a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Championship side Southampton are known to prefer a permanent sale on substantial terms having signed the England international for an initial \u00a318m from Arsenal in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows Newcastle agreeing a \u00a327m fee with Burnley to sign James Trafford last week only for Manchester City to activate a matching rights clause and set up a deal to re-sign their former academy graduate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ramsdale, who was last called up by England in March, would also get the opportunity to remain in the Premier League, where he made 30 appearances last season as Southampton finished bottom and were relegated with just 12 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle open talks to sign Southampton&#8217;s Ramsdalepublished at 13:34 British Summer Time 13:34 BST Nizaar KinsellaBBC Sport football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114942259279779705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303924","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=303924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}