Transfer deadline day 2022: Douglas Luiz, Arthur Melo, Zakaria and Antony news – live! | Transfer window

Manchester United had been linked with Barcelona full-back Sergino Dest. However the 21-year-old USA international has opted to join AC Milan on loan. The Rossoneri have a €20m option to buy come the end of the season.

Fans of actual football are reminded that there’s some hot Premier League action coming up tonight. Rob Smyth has all the details of Manchester United’s trip to current Crisis Baton™ holders Leicester City here. But hey, we can squeeze some transfer-related stuff out of this if we really try hard enough. And look who’s getting off the coach outside the King Power! Yep, he’s turned up for work, has been named on the bench, and that surely puts any chance of his leaving the club in this window to bed. Great news for United!

Chelsea’s extravagant summer spree continues right up until the last minute. They’ve secured the services of Juventus defensive midfielder Denis Zakaria on loan. Here Fabrizio Romano goes!

Paulo Gazzaniga’s days at Fulham looked numbered after the arrival of Bernd Leno, and so it has proved. He’s off to Girona on loan. Look!

Some potentially annoying news for Leeds United. It looked like they’d landed Bamba Dieng, but it appears the Marseille forward is off to Nice instead. He was preparing to take a flight to Leeds Bradford Airport when Nice’s bid for a one-year loan came through. The pilot was told to cool his boots, and Dieng went back to the terminal to think it through. Now all signs point to his staying in Ligue 1.

[Exhales slowly, and at length, through the nose. Rubs temples. Snaps out of it.]

Right, it’s going to be a long night. The transfer window shuts in less than four-and-a-half hours. All aboard the rollercoaster! Let’s go!

Billy Gilmour is closing in on that £10m permanent deal to Brighton. What a good move for the Scot that is – he’s miles from the first team at Chelsea and after a disastrous loan spell at Norwich, you would not have been surprised to see him in the Championship before too long. Loads of talent in there though, the 2022 Joshua McEachran.

That’s my little stint done on the blog, I’m going to hand over to Scott Murray, who will take you through to the close in a few hours. ‘Enjoy’ it. Cheers!

Julian Draxler has joined Benfica on loan from PSG. One of my favourite players to watch and terrifyingly silky when he’s on form. The thing is, he hasn’t been on form for a while now. Amazingly, though, he’s still just 28 years old. Feels like he’s been around for decades.

Nottingham Forest are at it again. They could complete two more signings in the coming hours, with Rennes defender Loïc Badé and Blackpool’s Josh Bowler (think Jarrod Bowen lite) both mooted for deals.

Bowler is a tricky left-footed winger that plays off the right that could apparently end up going immediately off to Olympiacos on loan, just as Hwang Ui-jo did last week. It would be a very odd deal, but with could sort all parties. Bowler is in the final year of his contract to Blackpool are minded to cash in now, Nottingham Forest are getting a promising young player for good value (reportedly £4m) and on sensible wages, and while Bowler gets to play in the Europa League this season and earn more money than he’s on at the moment. Steve Cooper has been a fan of Bowler for a while, and tried to buy him in January. I suspect Forest see him as one for the future and maybe even a player that would excel next season in the Championship if Forest aren’t able to stay up. Anyway, a long way to go before all.

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Hot segue alert: somebody else that connects Newcastle and Manchester United together (sort of) is Matty Longstaff, who is tumbling out of the Prem and down the EFL to League Two Colchester United. The midfielder made famous by that screamer against Manchester United joins on a quite remarkable loan that runs to January.

Speaking of goalkeepers, Jamie Jackson has been in touch with more details of the Martin Dubravka loan to Manchester United. Newcastle are owed £2m, plus a £6m obligation to buy if he starts a certain number of Premier League games.

Down the coast from Almería, Girona have signed Paulo Gazzaniga from Fulham. The former Southampton and Tottenham keeper joins on a season-long loan which will take him to the end of his Fulham contract – the 30-year-old has been moved down the pecking order since the arrival of Bernd Leno from Arsenal earlier in the summer.

Anyway back to the football. A rather big deal that has just been completed is Real Sociedad’s move for Sadiq Umar from Almería, which is reportedly around €20m + €6m in add-ons. The pacy striker scored 19 goals in the Spanish second tier to help Almería to promotion and has bagged two in three in La Liga this season.

Evening all. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s 1 September which means, here on the UK, the duvet has gone back on the bed and I can start dressing like an extra in Good Will Hunting once again.

I’m going to hand over to Michael Butler, so thanks for your company and emails. I’ll leave you with a list of the biggest deals so far. Bye!

Manchester United have confirmed that they have signed Martin Dubravka, the Newcastle goalkeeper, on loan with an option to buy.

Billy Gilmour to Brighton?

Cristiano Ronaldo latest

He’s with the Manchester United squad for tonight’s game at Leicester (what kind of dinosaur schedules a football match on transfer deadline day?), so it looks like he will be stuck at Old Trafford until at least January. What could possibly.

Other news

Fifa has banned Obert Zhoya, the former secretary general of the Zimbabwe Football Association’s referees committee, from all football-related activities for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing three female officials.

Chelsea and Arsenal legend Willian, 34, has joined Fulham on a one-year deal. And he’s got his own hashtag.

Today’s biggest deals

Jan Bednarek is having a medical at Aston Villa, according to Sky Sports News. He will join on a season-long loan from Southampton. But will he have his own announcement video?

Idrissa Gueye rejoins Everton

Andy Hunter

Everton have re-signed Idrissa Gana Gueye for a fee of around £2m from Paris Saint-Germain. The 32-year-old has signed a two-year contract and becomes Everton’s seventh summer signing.

Gueye, who joined PSG for £30m in 2019 after three productive seasons at Goodison Park, agreed a return to Merseyside several weeks ago only for the terms of his release from the French champions, where the midfielder had 12 months remaining on his contract, to delay the deal.

The Senegal international is eligible for Saturday’s Merseyside derby at home to Liverpool and is expected to be joined by fellow midfielder James Garner, with a deal rising to £15m agreed with Manchester United. Everton are also exploring several forward options ahead of the deadline.

Gana Gueye said: “I’ll give my soul to this team. Coming back here was important to me because I feel like I’m in my home. I’ve followed the team every week and watched how they play. For me, there is no better place than Everton, so that’s why I chose to come back here.

“I felt very, very good when I was here (the first time) and even when I went to Paris, I kept in touch with some of the players here and continued to support the team. For me, it’s special. I told PSG if I am going to leave it will be for one team — and that was Everton. It was not a difficult decision for me because I love this club. That’s why I had to come home.”

Check out our comprehensive list of all the transfers from the big five European leagues.

Fulham sign Layvin Kurzawa on loan from PSG

Kurzawa, a left-back who has played 13 times for France, has moved to Craven Cottage on a season-long loan. And he’s got his own video.

Douglas Luiz latest

Sky Sports News are reporting, very excitedly, that Arsenal have upped their bid to £25m. Villa are close to signing Wolves midfielder Leander Dendoncker, which might impact the Luiz property chain.

“Forest now have 21 new signings,” says Kyle Robertson. “What happened to all the players who were already there?”

We don’t talk about that.

Nottingham Forest latest

The French defender Loic Bade is reportedly set to join Forest from Rennes. That’s 72 unforced errors 21 players they’ll have signed this summer, if deals for Bade and Josh Bowler go through.

“Martin Braithwaite can get effed,” says Dave Watton, casually scooping the award for the most emphatic opening gambit of the day. “Yours sincerely, a bitter and disillusioned Middlesbrough fan who watched him phone it in for 10 games in the Championship before begging for two loans, posting how much he loved the club on social media, and on the pitch being the most rank average of the average players we bought in the disastrous post-relegation Garry Monk-fuelled spending binge of 2016.

“Couldn’t happen to a more mediocre player, sure he can dry his tears with his US property empire (which I think makes him the second richest current Barca player, after Pique!).”

I’m sensing rancour.

Today’s Fiver has landed, and it’s all about last night’s fun and games at Anfield.

Arthur Melo to Liverpool?

No update on this, but it looks like he will join on a season-long loan. In the circumstances, I think that’s a really smart move. I never really understood why Arthur’s career started to drift as he looked a player at Barcelona.

“With respect to Chris Amirault’s comment on Aubameyang, perhaps he wasn’t at Barcelona long enough for things to turn sour,” says Chris Hennessy. “People forget that he was run out of Dortmund for disciplinary reasons, which is why the end at Arsenal should not really come as a surprise.”

Are we saying he’s the on-field equivalent of Jose Mourinho? He’s 33, so I suppose there isn’t much danger of fourth-season syndrome at Chelsea.

“To add to the discussion of contrived deadline-day poses,” begins David Hopkins, “whatever happened to the halcyon days of players from Europe being pictured ‘enjoying’ whatever passed for their national cuisine in the provincial town they’d found themselves in? I remember Sheffield Wednesday excelling in this when picturing Benito Carbone and Paolo Di Canio with what was obviously a stone-cold Morrisons pizza.”

I’d pay a lot of money to hear Di Canio’s internal monologue for the duration of this video.

Ligue 1

Here’s Eric Devin’s take on Marseille, who have made an impressive start to the new season.

Antony speaks

Celta Vigo have signed Jørgen Strand Larsen, the 6’ 4” Norwegian forward also wanted by Middlesbrough, for a fee of around €11.5m. Sevilla have signed Kasper Dolberg on loan from Nice, with a €20m purchase option, while Martin Braithwaite has left Barcelona and is expected to join neighbours Espanyol.

Ligue 1 high-flyers Lens have sold striker Ignatius Ganago to Nantes, and signed midfielder Jean Onana from Bordeaux. Borussia Mönchengladbach have brought Julian Weigl back to Germany on loan from Benfica, with striker Krzysztof Piatek leaving Hertha Berlin for Salernitana. Marko Pjaca, who was surplus to requirements at Juventus, has joined Empoli on loan with a reported €1m buy option.

“I don’t want to sound like some sort of Frankenstein’s Monster mash-up of Jerry Seinfeld and Abraham Simpson but what is the deal with the modern-day footballer and their contrived ‘I’ve just been signed’ or ‘I’m starting today’s match’ poses?” says Graeme Neil. “In my day, you didn’t even get that with David Ginola…”

And nobody brings a squash racket any more.

“I wanted to confirm your comment about Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at Barca,” says Chris Amirault. “What has been most striking is, oddly enough, his attitude, which was certainly in question at Arsenal. It wasn’t just scoring: he brought a real joy to the team on the pitch at a time when it was desperately needed. It was hard to believe that this was the same person Arteta dumped.”

He’d been at Arsenal for four years, and for most of that time he was outstanding. Sometimes people just need a change; there’s no more or less to it than that.

“Don’t you think the whole Martin Braithwaite/Barcelona saga (if that’s not being too dramatic) demonstrates the sheer arrogance of the club in recent times?” says Rob Morgan. “Signing him as an ‘emergency’ transfer outside the window, meaning that he couldn’t be replaced by Leganes; hardly playing him when the squad was back to full health; publicly trying to get rid of him, but playing hardball with an exit fee and then also stating that they didn’t want him to sign for Espanyol (which he duly ignored).

“It was obvious that he was only ever going to be a squad player there, and I’m not feeling too sorry for a guy who’s just pocketed a couple of million quid, but where’s the respect? Combined with things such as spending millions on new players while expecting other squad members to defer wages or even play for free, you must think that at some point this is going to deter players from wanting to go there? I’m a neutral BTW – no dog in the La Liga/Champions League fight.”

On the plus side, nobody will be able to utter the words “Mes Que Un Club” with a straight face ever again.

Andy Hunter

Andre Gomes could be on his way out of Everton with Lille keen on signing the former Barcelona and Benfica midfielder on a season-long loan. The 29-year-old hasn’t featured at all under Frank Lampard this season, though he did have an injury during pre-season, and has two years remaining on a lucrative contract at Goodison Park.

“Dear Rob,” says Alan Gomes. “Following the English transfer deadline is now something of a frightful experience if you’re a fan of a club in continental Europe. The Premier League is now so financially dominant that many players would rather play for, say, Wolves or Bournemouth than for a team chasing titles in Portugal or the Netherlands.

“As an FC Porto fan, I’m nervously reading rumours and just hoping they don’t materialise: Taremi to Chelsea… Evanilson to Man United… João Mário to Arsenal… Gonçalo Borges to Everton… These are all almost certainly fluff, but it’s still annoying that one’s club is treated as a shop window. Well, I suppose we have been doing the same to clubs in Latin America, so what goes around etc. But still.”

Sky Sports News are reporting that Jan Bednarek’s move from Southampton to West Ham is off, and that he’s going to join Aston Villa on loan instead. All those claret-and-blue clubs look the same.

Jamie Jackson

The deal for Manchester United to sign Martin Dubravka on loan from Newcastle United is expected to be sealed this afternoon.

Here’s Manchester City’s new signing Manuel Akanji on his dream move to the Etihad

 

Nottingham Forest: 20 not out