Man Utd block Jesse Lingard move, Arsenal fail with deadline-day striker pursuits - Paper Round

Man Utd block Lingard move Jesse Lingard will remain at Manchester United for the rest of the season after the club’s chiefs rejected Newcastle’s advances, The Sun reports. Lingard faces months on the fringes of United’s first team and will not leave until the summer, when his contract at Old Trafford runs out.

Newcastle proposed a loan deal of £3m, plus £4m if they stayed up, but Manchester United wanted a straight £10m given no permanent offer was made. Ad/> Paper Round’s view: There are few favours made in the Premier League, but you’d have thought a club of Manchester United’s stature could have helped out an academy graduate who only returned to Old Trafford with the promise of reigniting his career at a team he loves.

That wasn’t to be, and now Lingard will be reduced to cameo appearances for the next few months – not what he wanted with the World Cup at the end of 2022, although at least he has some time next season to impress before the tournament in Qatar. TransfersNewcastle end deadline day with Burn signing from Brighton6 HOURS AGO ** Arsenal striker pursuit falls through Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has left Arsenal for Barcelona on a free transfer, but the Gunners were unable to sign a potential replacement earlier in the day, the Express reports.

Arsenal wanted to sign Espanyol striker Raul de Tomas on deadline day, but the Spanish club’s general manager Jose Maria Duran put a stop to that move from taking place, insisting the 27-year-old was not for sale. /> And Morata too...

There was also a report in the Mirror, picking up on news in Spain that Alvaro Morata was not interested in a move to Arsenal. The striker is currently on loan at Juventus from Atletico Madrid but is likely to drop in the pecking order