Every day Chronicle Live rounds up the latest transfer gossip, and every day it gets busier. But with the transfer window approaching, May was an exceptionally busy month down the rumour mill.
With Newcastle newly flush, the club is a useful source of leverage for agents, which is increasingly a problem. Newcastle United ended up being linked with players including Romelu Lukaku and Paulo Dybala in May.
Inevitably most of the rumours are very thin. On the other hand, few expected players of the calibre of Kieran Trippier and Bruno Guimaraes to arrive in January.
