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With the Premier League set to start on 10th August, teams are rushing to make transfers. This involves buying players, retaining players and selling players. Each team is looking to improve their squad while trying to be frugal. Unfortunately with this inflated transfer marketing being frugal is close to impossible.
With the new Premier League transfer rules, players need to be signed by August 8th or the clubs have to wait until the January transfer window to improve their squad. With all that in mind clubs are going to rush in the last week to complete signings. This makes the last week full of signings and rumors. I try to cover many of them here.
Sarri 'not happy' with Willian
According to Sky sources, Maurizio Sarri is not very happy with Willian. While the club had given Willian permission to return late, but Sarri was not pleased with the fact that Willian did not return to training on Wednesday. After his game against Arsenal Sarri was clearly frustrated and spoke out on Willian."I don't know. I am not happy about the situation but I would like to talk to him. He went on to add that he found this situation "strange".
Having said all this, he added that he wants to keep all his best players at the club and he regards Willian as one of them. It will be interesting to see if Chelsea can hold on to Willian.
Crystal Palace sign Cheikhou Kouyate
As per Sky Sources, Crystal Palace sign midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate from West Ham. It is said to be a 4-year deal which brings the Senegal captain to Crystal Palace. Kouyate had taken part in the world cup and stated that he was looking for a new challenge. He told PalaceTV: "I'm so happy. It's been a long day but now everything is good and I'm very excited to start with my new team-mates".
Bournemouth Looking to sign midfielder
According to Sky Sources Bournemouth are looking to sign midfielder Jefferson Lerma, from Levante. Levante is asking for a fee close to £27m. Lerma is primarily a central defensive midfielder but can also slot in at right-back situation. The fee seems pretty exorbitant for Bournemouth, but Levante wants to hold on to Lerma.
Manchester United target Yerry Mina
As per Sky Sources, Manchester United are looking to buy Barcelona centre-back Yerra Mina. The fee is close to £30m. Manchester United was interested in Harry Maguire but Leicester City was resolute and did want to sell their star centre back. Hence United decided to move their interest and Mina came into the picture.
Mina could not break in the Barcelona starting eleven and hence is looking for a move away from Camp Nou. Sky Sports also reports that Wolves and Everton might also be interested in signing the Columbian international.
Anthony Martial makes a statement that family comes first
Anthony Martial made a statement on thanking fans for support. He also stated that family comes first and that he will be back with Manchester United tomorrow.
He posted on Twitter "Thank you all for your posts. My little Swan is fine, for the mum it was harder but thanks to God she's better now."Sorry, but my family will always come first... Back tomorrow in Manchester".
Sunderland sign Charlie Wyke
As per Sky Sources, Charlie Wyke has been signed by Sunderland from Bradford City for £1m. Sunderland is looking for promotion and signing eleven players goes to show their intent. Charlie Wyke was reported saying "I can't wait to get started.".
Unai Emery happy with his squad
Sky Sources reports that Arsenal Manager Unai Emery is happy with his squad and is not looking for more signings. After beating Chelsea in penalties Emery was asked about signing Sevilla midfielder N'Zonzi. Emery avoided that question saying " At the moment I am very happy with the players who are with here with us,"."I am telling you now, we are ok".
Emery has already made multiple signings this preseason which include Bernd Leno, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Lucas Torreira and Matteo Guendouzi.
