GOSSIP: The latest transfer rumours from across the Premier League. Picture: Getty Images.GOSSIP: The latest transfer rumours from across the Premier League. Picture: Getty Images.
GOSSIP: The latest transfer rumours from across the Premier League. Picture: Getty Images.

Newcastle United transfer news: Newcastle and Arsenal considering summer move for Lille striker, Manchester City stars linked with Real Madrid and Inter

Top flight clubs in England are making early preparations for the summer transfer window.

A host of Premier League clubs including Leeds United, Southampton and Crystal Palace have been dealt a transfer blow as a much sought after Championship star could be set to stay with his current club.

Newcastle United and Arsenal are among a group of European clubs who are now being linked with a move for a 22-year old striker from French champions LOSC Lille while the Gunners may have been dealt a blow in their pursuit of a former Chelsea forward who has said he would “always stay” with his current club if it were up to him.

Meanwhile, Liverpool are said to be “seriously interested” in signing West Ham’s English attacker and Chelsea could be lining up a move for a Wolverhampton Wanderers defender.

Manchester City are normally the club being linked with new signings but this morning it’s their players who are being linked with moves away from the Etihad as Real Madrid and Inter Milan are understood to be interested in separate international stars.

Elsewhere, Aston Villa have made a Liverpool defender their “main target” for the summer transfer window while a former Everton favourite has said he would be open to a return to Goodison Park.

Here are Tuesday’s Premier League transfer rumours: