Paper Talk: Liverpool eye £12m Champ ace; City to land £27m CB

Liverpool look set to beat Tottenham and Southampton to a Norwich star, while Man City are ready to spend £27million to sign a La Liga defender, according to Tuesday’s newspapers.

 

LIVERPOOL TO BEAT SPURS AND SOUTHAMPTON TO NORWICH TALENT

Liverpool are growing increasingly confident of pushing through a summer move for £10million-rated James Maddison, according to Tuesday’s papers.

The 21-year-old midfielder has been one of the best performers in the Championship this season, having scored five times and weighed in with six assists.

With both Liverpool, Tottenham and Southampton said to be making regular checks on the player, the Daily Express believes the Reds look the most likely to push through a summer swoop for the star, which could amount to £12million.

It’s claimed Liverpool see Maddison as a star of the future but would like to push through a deal for him this month.

However, after last week selling Alex Pritchard to Huddersfield for £11million, the Canaries are hopeful of keeping Maddison until the summer at least.

“Two weeks ago I didn’t have the feeling we would sell Alex but things develop, offers increase and there is a point when the club must make a decision,” Norwich head coach Daniel Farke said.

“You know in this business there can be something stupid at any moment. But right now, from the sporting side they know it is important to keep a key player like James Maddison.

“The only message from this decision should be that before, the financial pressure was not big in this window.

“Now we have sold an important player for a lot of money so there is no pressure to sell another one.

“It takes further pressure away and we are able to keep players like James Maddison.

“I am pretty sure if we get another offer for one of our big players after selling Alex the board would feel we can’t lose a second key player in this moment in the season.

“It means we are more likely to keep the key players together.”

 

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Pep Guardiola is poised to step up his bid to sign Inigo Martinez from Real Sociedad for £27m (Daily Star)

New manager Paul Lambert will get a £1.5m bonus if he avoids relegation with Stoke (Daily Star)

Bournemouth have joined Everton and Southampton in the race for Arsenal’s Theo Walcott (Daily Star)

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Burnley are targeting a move for Brighton winger Solly March (Daily Star)

Swansea target Ryan Fredericks says he will snub a move to sign a new deal with Fulham (Daily Star)

Huddersfield midfielder Jack Payne is joining League One high-flyers Blackburn on-loan (Daily Star)

Crystal Palace forward Keshi Anderson is set to turn his loan move at Swindon into a permanent deal (Daily Star)

Southampton want Switzerland and Udinese right-back Silvan Widmer (Daily Star)

Watford’s loan move for Sunderland flop Didier Ndong is in danger of collapsing (Daily Star)

Arsenal are closing in on Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as their new head of recruitment insists they are not getting a bad boy (Daily Telegraph)

West Brom are set to offer £12m for Fulham captain Tom Cairney (The Sun)

Tim Cahill could be set for a return to former side Millwall (The Sun)

Emre Can could sign a new deal at Liverpool despite interest from Juventus (The Guardian)

Everton are hopeful of signing Theo Walcott from Arsenal in a £20m deal (The Guardian)

New Stoke boss Paul Lambert will be handed a transfer survival fund in a bid to keep the Potters up (Daily Mirror)

West Ham fear Andy Carroll has had his head turned by the prospect of a loan move to Chelsea (Daily Mirror)

Amanda Staveley is increasing her bid to buy out Newcastle owner Mike Ashley to over £300m (Daily Express)

Ryan Giggs is weighing up an approach to make Paul Scholes a part of his Wales backroom staff (Daily Mail)

Cristiano Ronaldo have thrown his Real Madrid future into doubt after saying he feels betrayed by the Spanish giants 

Tottenham have held further talks with Toby Alderweireld over a new contract (Daily Mail)

Birmingham City are interested in signing Feyenoord’s Dutch left-back Miquel Nelom (Daily Mail)

Hearts’ attempt to sign Go Ahead Eagles’ striker Leon de Kogel is on hold after the two clubs failed to agree terms (Daily Record)