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BIG-SPENDING Wolves could make a shock £ 20million move for Burnley striker Andre Gray.
Eyebrows have already been raised by their Championship rivals over the transfer cash being splashed by Molineux’s Chinese owners with the help of superagent Jorge Mendes.
Mendes, whose coterie of clients includes Jose Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo and Diego Costa, is in charge of the ins and outs at the Midlands club.
Already t hey have shelled out £ 15m for Porto’s highly-rated Ruben Neves, and £13m to make Helder Costa’s initial loan move permanent.
Now they are ready to t est Premier League Burnley’s resolve over Gray, also the subject of SWANSEA have joined the race for BARNSLEY’s Andy Yiadom. The Tykes are braced for an offer for the Ghana full-back who has interested a string of clubs. Huddersfield, Reading and QPR have had bids turned down – but not one of them has come close to Barnsley’s £2.5million valuation. continued interest from West Ham.
With Gray refusing ng to sign a new contract with just 12 months off his current deal to run, Burnley boss Sean Dyche is prepared to let et the striker leave for the e right price.
And talk of a £20m m fee hasn’t put off ambitious tious Wolves. It would mean ean a hometown wn return foror 26-year-old d Gray, who o was in the e Wolves s academy until the age of 13, before joining Shrews- bury Town.
Andre Gray in the famous gold shirtirt would also spark memmories of his nearrnamesake, Andy Gray ( above), who helped Wolves win the League Cup at Wembley in 1980. BORDEAUX striker Diego Rolan is refusing to pen a deal with FULHAM – until he discovers if NEWCASTLE’S interest in him is concrete.
The Cottagers have agreed a £5million fee for the Uruguay star, who is understood to have already passed a medical.
However, despite spending a week in London, Rolan, 24, has not yet committed himself amid potential interest from Magpies boss Rafa Benitez. SPURS and ARSENAL are keeping tabs on CAEN youngster Yann Karamoh. The two clubs have had scouts watch the 19-year-old striker, who FIORENTINA and INTER MILAN are also keen on. He is valued at just under £9million, although official offers are yet to exceed £3.8m. RONALD KOEMAN will this week step up his interest in Olivier Giroud.
The ARSENAL forward is the number one target on the Dutchman’s hit-list as EVERTON look to add the final pieces of their summer transfer jigsaw.
The France international wants to see where he stands at the Emirates before deciding on his next port of call.
But Koeman is in the market for a targetman – and Giroud is the one at the top of his list – and he needs an answer as to whether the Gunners striker will join in a £25million deal.
The former Barcelona star admitted this week he expects three new f faces before the season gets under way in a f fortnight’s time.
One of those will be GGylfi Gylfi S Sigurdsson – as exclusively revealed in SundS Sunday People Sport three weeks ago – and Girou Giroud is the second part of his master plan.
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The final new face is likely to be cover for Leighton Baines at left-back. Everton are reaady ready to throw defender Callum Connollly Connolly int into the mix as they increase their bid for SWANSEA attacker SSigurd Sigurdsson. Boss Koem Koeman has had two bids tuurnedturned down, one of £40mm £40m and another with addd-ons add-ons that totalled arround around £45m. But they are conf confident that a deal can b be struck if 19-ye 19-year-old Connolly is pa part of it. Sw Swansea boss Paul Clem Clement left Sigur Sigurdsson out of his squad for yesterday’s ffriend friendly at Birmingham. Me Meanwhile, Gareth Barry could be blocked from q quitting Goodison Park for West Brom amid uncertainty abo about James McC McCarthy’s future. Irela Ireland international McCarthy contiinues continues to interest NEWCASTLE UNUNITEDNITE but the transfer fee is so far provinng proving a s sticking point. Barry is keen tooto exte extend his career and does not want to spends spend time on the bench playing a bitt-part bit-part role.