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Soon after Maresca told the media that Chelsea needed to strengthen the defence, he was seen in conversation with Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart. (@NizaarKinsella)

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Dortmund are hoping to exploit and make Chelsea get nervous about Carney Chukwuemeka. Chelsea wants to sell him for £21m, or at minimum £17m, but BVB wants him for cheaper and through a loan with a buy option. (@cfbayern)

Exclusive Nicolas Jackson has been left out of Chelsea’s squad for tonight’s friendly vs Bayer Leverkusen 24yo striker has officially told #CFC he wants to explore transfer Club are now helping him & in talks with multiple suitors. (kierangill_DM)

Understand Chelsea are now willing to lower their £5m asking price for Alfie Gilchrist. A fee of £1.5m plus add-ons is viewed as acceptable with a sell-on clause likely in any deal. Gilchrist expected to leave before the end of the window. Championship and Saudi interest. (Ben Jacobs)

Newcastle have made an initial €80m offer for Nicolas Jackson, everything is in place and the deal is underway reports (@marca)

Exclusive: PSG reach an agreement in principle with Bournemouth for Illia Zabarnyi worth €63m plus add-ons. Zabarnyi's permission to travel is imminent pending small details. (Ben Jacobs)

Hmm, I haven't seen him play much, but what I do know is that he's very slow and a bit clumsy, and would be extremely expensive to buy from Brentford.

Newcastle United considering move to sign Samu Aghehowa from FC Porto. (David_Ornstein)

Simon Phillips reports that Chelsea wants to sign Nathan Collins! 🫥😶

Chelsea have not activated any immediate ‘emergercy plan’ to sign new centre back after Levi Colwill injury. — Club has full trust in current squad. [@FabrizioRomano]

Chelsea have stepped up talks with Manchester United over deal to sign Alejandro Garnacho. Clubs in touch on topic for some time & now advancing amid Benjamin Sesko joining #MUFC. 21yo winger wants #CFC or nothing + expects move to happen. (David Ornstein)

Maresca says Chelsea could go into the market if Colwill injury is bad : “We’ll see, for Levi for the way we play, he’s so important”

I could imagine Chelsea signing either Hincapie or Inacio and no longer needing a goalkeeper for Guehi on the right. I'm concerned about the quality of our center backs without Colwill. Forget Veiga, he's not coming back into the team. He's already training in a separate group and has fallen out with Enzo.M!!!

@JacobsBen: Acheampong (situation) is complicated as Chelsea value him & genuinely think he's not too far off being a serious player for the club. Bournemouth already made an inquiry & said they were very serious about making a bid. it was shut down ~2 weeks ago by CFC.

Man Utd contact Brighton via intermediaries to explore conditions of deal for Carlos Baleba. BHAFC do not plan to sell this summer & all sides aware move may be unrealistic. But MUFC keen + should know in coming days if plausible or not. (David Ornstein & Fabrizio Romano)

EXCL - Liverpool Football Club set to proceed with a concrete offer to Paris Saint-Germain! Reds very determined to transform their interest into a bid during recent talks. Deal won’t be under €100M. Isak situation explains this LFC new strategy. (Sacha Tavolieri)

For Bradley Barcola to leave PSG, two conditions must be met. Barcola must indicate that he wants to leave, and an offer exceeding €100 million must be made to Paris Saint-Germain. Currently, this is not the case. Several clubs, including Liverpool, are interested in him. (Fabrice Hawkins)

Garnacho is thought to be available for about £50m, although Chelsea are understood to be reluctant to pay that. (@ed_aarons)

Chelsea’s unwanted players have been working separately at Cobham for almost a month, building fitness while they and their representatives work on finding moves elsewhere. [@TheAthleticFC]

Darwin Nunez and Al Hilal exclusive story. The agreement club to club with Liverpool is 100% done. Understand initial fee will be €53m plus heavy add-ons easy to reach to bring total package higher. 😵

Is the World Cup badge now automatically included with every jersey ordered, or does it have to be paid for separately like the player and No Racism badges?

Dortmund are negotiating for a Carney loan + obligation to buy around £21.7m - £26.1m. The obligation would be live if Carney played a certain number of games. (@RNBVB)

Understand Crystal Palace refused two officials bid from Liverpool for Marc Guehi Marc Guéhi won’t go into conflict with Crystal Palace to join Liverpool. The defender remains respectful of his club — no push from his side Meanwhile, the Reds are exploring other defensive targets (@Santi J_FM)

At the moment, a loan is under discussion, and West Ham also wants to loan him.