{"id":683579,"date":"2026-01-09T02:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:52:28","slug":"football-gossip-guehi-souza-schlotterbeck-upamecano-madjo-rudiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683579\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Guehi, Souza, Schlotterbeck, Upamecano, Madjo, Rudiger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/b><\/a> ready to join race for Marc Guehi but <\/b>Manchester City<\/b><\/a> confident they will sign <\/b>Crystal Palace<\/b><\/a> centre-back ahead of <\/b>Liverpool<\/b><\/a> and <\/b>Tottenham<\/b><\/a> agree personal terms with Souza<\/b>. <\/b><\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/b><\/a> <\/b>are ready to enter the race to sign 25-year-old England and Crystal Palace<\/b><\/a> defender Marc Guehi. (Mirror) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

However, Manchester City<\/b><\/a> <\/b>are confident they will sign Guehi in the coming days, beating rivals Liverpool<\/b><\/a> <\/b>to his signature. (Star) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/b><\/a> have agreed personal terms with 19-year-old Brazil and Santos <\/b>left-back Souza before a potential move to the Premier League. (Fabrizio Romano) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Wolves<\/b><\/a> are determined to keep hold of England youth international Mateus Mane this month, with the club insisting the 18-year-old is not for sale at any price. (Mail) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Egypt forward Omar Marmoush, 26, has no plans to leave Manchester City<\/b><\/a> in January and instead intends to stay at the club and fight for his place. (Florian Plettenberg), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Real Madrid<\/b> are stepping up their interest in Borussia Dortmund<\/b> and Germany centre-back Nico Schlotterbeck, 26, as France defender Dayot Upamecano, 27, is expected to sign a contract extension at Bayern Munich.<\/b> (Bild – subscription required) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester City<\/b><\/a> are interested in signing 21-year-old Brentford<\/b><\/a> and Italy Under-21 right-back Michael Kayode. (Caughtoffside) , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Real Madrid<\/b> are willing to sell Antonio Rudiger in January for 10m euros (\u00a39m), with former club Chelsea<\/b><\/a> and Paris St-Germain<\/b> keen on a move for the 32-year-old Germany centre-back, whose contract at the Bernabeu runs out in the summer. (Fichajes – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Union Berlin’s <\/b>Dutch centre-back Danilho Doekhi, 27, is said to be very keen on a move to Leeds United<\/b><\/a> <\/b>to play under manager Daniel Farke. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/b><\/a> <\/b>have agreed a \u00a310m deal for 16-year-old Metz <\/b>and Luxembourg forward Brian Madjo. (Fabrizio Romano), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal ready to join race for Marc Guehi but Manchester City confident they will sign Crystal Palace centre-back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-683579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115862879901482959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683579","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=683579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}