{"id":325533,"date":"2025-08-07T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325533\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:37:35","slug":"gossip-sheffield-united-chase-three-new-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325533\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossip: Sheffield United chase three new defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/norwich-city\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Norwich <\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">are hoping to beat <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leicester <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/sheffield-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield United<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> to the signing of England under-21 defender Callum Doyle, 21, who is valued around \u00a310m by <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Man City<\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">. (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsboom.co.uk\/football\/transfer-news\/exclusive-manchester-city-ace-callum-doyle-being-tracked-by-leicester-and-sheffield-united-but-norwich-city-ready-to-pounce\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">SportsBoom<\/b>, external<\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Blades <\/b>are also keen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/hull-city\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hull City <\/a>defender Charlie Hughes, 21, who worked with boss Ruben Selles at the MKM Stadium last season. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsboom.co.uk\/football\/transfer-news\/exclusive-sheffield-united-determined-to-land-hull-city-defender-charlie-hughes-despite-initial-rejection\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SportsBoom, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Atalanta&#8217;s <\/b>former England and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Everton <\/b>defender Ben Godfrey, 27, is another linked with a move to <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bramall Lane<\/b>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsPeteO\/status\/1953205716451229740\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Pete O&#8217;Rourke, external<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9d0jy4vqg7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Want more transfer news from the EFL? Take a look at Thursday&#8217;s gossip column here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwich are hoping to beat Leicester and Sheffield United to the signing of England under-21 defender Callum Doyle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988229826766967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325533","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=325533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}