Football transfer rumours: Bayern’s Serge Gnabry set for Arsenal return?

There’s been plenty of idle gossip about Bayern Munich players this summer and Serge Gnabry is the latest to have Premier League clubs a-tusslin’. Arsenal are the latest club to be linked with the winger, who began his career at the Emirates. Manchester City and United are also interested, and Bayern could demand as much as £50m for a player about to enter the final year of his contract.

Another Bayern player who could be England-bound is Omar Richards. The English left-back, who moved to the Allianz Arena from Reading a year ago, is on the radar of Nottingham Forest, who’ve been busy as they prepare for their first Premier League campaign of this century. Steve Cooper’s side are also confident of sealing a deal for Liverpool’s Neco Williams by the weekend for a fee of around £16m plus add-ons.

One player who shone for Forest last season, Middlesbrough loanee Djed Spence, is in Tottenham’s sights. The Telegraph reports Spurs are closing in on a £15m swoop for the England Under-21 right-back.

Forest’s fellow promotees Fulham are closing in on a deal for the Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno as they seek to shore up their rearguard and prevent the coming season replicating all their other recent ones in the top flight. Leno is keen for more regular first-team action in the run-up to the World Cup while Mikel Arteta is keen to get the £100,000-a-week German keeper off Arsenal’s books as he continues to rebuild.

Liverpool may have got a lot of their summer business done early and decisively but that hasn’t stopped tongues wagging about all manner of targets. The Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot is the latest to be linked with an Anfield move, with Naby Keïta a potential makeweight in the deal. We shall see.

Plucky,