Friday, 31 August 2018

Football transfer rumours: Celtic's Moussa Dembélé set for Lyon exit?

Today’s tell-all was up late

Chelsea love a loan window like the Mill loves fluff. Thirty-eight players were rented out last season, 34 have gone this term, and there’s talk of shifting more before Friday’s 5pm loan deadline. Izzy Brown, Fankaty Dabo and Islam Feruz could all go; Tammy Abraham doesn’t want to go but might have to; and Ruben Loftus-Cheek really does want to go, but has been told he can’t. He’s been left “fuming” by it – but Chelsea reckon he should show some patience. January’s not far off.

Friday should be busy elsewhere, too, with regular transfer deadlines in Scotland and most of Europe. Expect more of this sort of thing on Thursday, then: Jean-Michel Aulas – Lyon president and Twitter provocateur – being coy about signing Celtic’s Moussa Dembélé: “He’s an option, though we have others”; Pedro Martins, Olympiakos manager, being coy about re-signing Yaya Touré: “I won’t refer to players that do not belong to our group yet”; and Steven Gerrard being skittish about Rangers’ £2m deal for Osijek winger Joe Grezda: “I just don’t want to say too much, until it’s over the line.” He’s also hoping to land Forest’s Joe Worrall on loan.

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