On a day Sky Sports News reporters are sent to man the car parks of Premier League stadiums and training grounds, where they will be studiously ignored by managers and young footballers toting designer wash bags, the Guardian will do its bit to bring you all the transfer news that’s fit to print and much that might not be. While plenty of big-name clubs have got their summer business done commendably early, there are several more hoping to get last-minute deals “over the line” before the window shuts at 11pm and we can all get on with our lives.
Chelsea’s policy of offloading homegrown academy graduates in the interests of trimming their squad and balancing the books shows no sign of abating, with Callum Hudson-Odoi being shipped out to Nottingham Forest. Once valued at £50m, the injury-prone winger is rumoured to be going for a cut-price £8m. Trevoh Chalobah is also expected to leave Stamford Bridge, for Bayern Munich, even if the German champions’ insistence on a loan deal is not entirely to Chelsea’s liking. Bayern also remain interested in taking Conor Gallagher off the Chelsea payroll, but any move they make could be hijacked by Tottenham.
