Monday’s Transfer Gossip: Rice, Tierney, Raphinha, Depay, Rice, Maitland-Niles

• West Ham midfielder Declan Rice, 23, is in the frame as a future England captain, according to Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate. (Mirror)

 

• Real Madrid are preparing a £50m bid for Arsenal and Scotland defender Kieran Tierney, 24. (Sunday Post)

 

• Premier League clubs are set to be on alert with versatile Arsenal and England international Ainsley Maitland-Niles, 24, not expected to be retained by loan club Roma beyond the summer. (Mirror)

 

• Napoli have set a price tag of £83m for their 23-year-old Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen. (Corriere dello Sport, via Sun)

 

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• Norwegian rising star Andreas Schjelderup, 17, says he turned down the opportunity to sign for Liverpool, but the midfielder has left the door open for a potential move in the future. (Liverpool Echo)

 

• Barcelona have reached agreement with Brazil forward Raphinha, 25, over a move from Leeds United this summer. (Sport – in Spanish)

 

• Manchester United want their next manager to imbue the club with a strong playing identity, giving Erik ten Hag an early edge in the contest to take over at Old Trafford. (Times)

 

• Bernardo Silva says that Portugal are doing their homework on North Macedonia as they do not want their World Cup dreams to be dashed by the in-form Balkan minnows. (Time)

 

• Cristiano Ronaldo will kiss goodbye to £5 million because of Manchester United’s season from hell.(Sun)

 

• Everton will cash in on Dominic Calvert-Lewin at the end of the season – with Arsenal and West Ham on red alert.(Sun)

 

• Barcelona are set to release seven players this summer as they look to reinforce, with Chelsea’s Spanish defender Cesar Azpilicueta, 32, and Danish centre-back Andreas Christensen, 25, both linked with moves to the Nou Camp. (AS – in Spanish)

 

• Tottenham are leading the race to sign Netherlands forward Memphis Depay, 28, from Barcelona. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish)

 

• Chelsea have been boosted in their pursuit of Aurelien Tchouameni after the agent of the 22-year-old Monaco and France midfielder denied they have an agreement with Real Madrid. (Le Parisien, via Fabrizio Romano)

 

• Prospective Chelsea owners have been given a deadline of 11 April to submit final bids for the club. (talkSPORT)

 

• Fulham want Burnley’s £20m-rated Nick Pope to be their No  1 in the Premier League next season.(Sun)

 

• West Ham have got some transfer headaches with Shakhtar Donetsk reluctant to let pair David Neres and Lassina Traore move to the Londoners.(Sun)

 

• Chelsea striker Timo Werner has said that he feels more comfortable representing Germany than he does the Blues due to the ‘differences in the style of play’.(Daily mail)

 

• Dele Alli is reportedly facing the axe at Everton – just months after he was rescued from his Tottenham hell by Frank Lampard. (Mirror)