{"id":472437,"date":"2019-07-03T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=472437"},"modified":"2019-07-03T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T23:03:58","slug":"transfer-rumours-manchester-united-manchester-city-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/03\/transfer-rumours-manchester-united-manchester-city-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Rumours: Manchester United, Manchester City and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word On Football&#8217;s Football Transfer News brings you the latest Premier League transfer rumours. Today, we look at the latest on <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/leicester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leicester City<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d8931174\/Harry-Maguire\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Maguire<\/a>\u00a0as well as which <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United<\/a> player looks destined for the exit.<\/p>\n<h1>Premier League Transfer Rumours<\/h1>\n<h2>Leicester Demanding More For Harry Maguire<\/h2>\n<p>According to John Percy, Sam Wallace and James Ducker of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2019\/07\/02\/leicester-tell-manchester-united-harry-maguire-will-cost-least\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegraph,<\/a> Leicester are demanding a fee of \u00a390 million for defender Harry Maguire.<\/p>\n<p>The England international has been subject to interest from both <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchesterunitedfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchestercityfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a>. However, it is believed that United are the front-runners for Maguire.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is looking for new additions in the middle of defence. As a result, he is insistent on Maguire, who made 31 appearances for Leicester last season.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Close to Bournemouth Defender?<\/h2>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Actualites\/Transferts-nathan-ake-bournemouth-vers-manchester-city\/1036063\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> L&#8217;Equipe<\/a> in France, Manchester City are close to signing <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/bournemouth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bournemouth<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/eaeca114\/Nathan-Ake\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Ake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch centre-back is likely to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d2bff301\/Vincent-Kompany\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vincent Kompany<\/a> at the Etihad. However, it is likely that he will not receive the same regularity of appearances of which he received at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Ake featured in all 38 Premier League games for Bournemouth last season, scoring a career-high four goals.<\/p>\n<h2>West Ham Uncertain Over Arnautovic Future?<\/h2>\n<p>According to Darren Lewis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/west-ham-facing-marko-arnautovic-17372024\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mirror<\/a>, West Ham are uncertain over the future of striker <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/00459419\/Marko-Arnautovic\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marko Arnautovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian has been the subject of interest from clubs in China and reportedly wants to make the move. However, West Ham do not want to sell their star striker.<\/p>\n<p>Arnautovic scored 11 goals and registered four assists for West Ham in all competitions last season.<\/p>\n<h2>Leicester Close to Double Signing?<\/h2>\n<p>According to John Percy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2019\/07\/03\/leicester-close-56m-pair-youri-tielemans-ayoze-perez-stand-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegraph<\/a>, Leicester are close to completing the signings of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/56f7a928\/Youri-Tielemans\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youri Tielemans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/819aa8e7\/Ayoze-Perez\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ayoze Perez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tielemans spent the second half of last season on loan at Leicester. He impressed with his attacking ability, scoring three goals as well as registering four assists.<\/p>\n<p>Ayoze Perez has spent the past five seasons with fellow Premier League side Newcastle United. Last season was his most successful to date, scoring 13 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"-uXUzQYnSgFHkNp0e3QH7Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1133820583\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-uXUzQYnSgFHkNp0e3QH7Q',sig:'Uk4O95GPpBIK6x2iLRDNvBFUsOTDpAU0fdhm-P5HIis=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1133820583',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word On Football&#8217;s Football Transfer News brings you the latest Premier League transfer rumours. Today, we look at the latest on Leicester City defender Harry Maguire\u00a0as well as which West Ham United player looks destined for the exit. Premier League Transfer Rumours Leicester Demanding More For Harry Maguire According to John Percy, Sam Wallace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":472542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,15,17,18,3,28,27],"tags":[1896,2944,100,36,40,304,136],"class_list":["post-472437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bournemouth","category-leicester-city","category-manchester-city","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","category-transfers","category-west-ham","tag-bournemouth","tag-leicester-city-fc","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-west-ham-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}