Napoli have stepped up their efforts to bring Lucas Torreira back to Serie A by offering £25m for the Arsenal midfielder. (Daily Mail)
Tottenham defender Juan Foyth is being lined up for a move to Italy with Roma as well as both Milan clubs all keen on the Argentina international. (Daily Mirror)
English defender Ashley Young, 34, expects to leave Manchester United in the summer and is ready to talk to other clubs in January. (ESPN)
Chelsea have added strikers RB Leipzig's German forward Timo Werner and Lyon's French forward Moussa Dembele, both 23, to their list of January transfer targets. (Daily Mail)
Leicester City are said to be "really interested" in making a £25m move for Juventus and Turkey defender Merih Demiral, 21, during January's transfer window. (Leicester Mercury)
Newcastle have agreed a deal to sign Scottish superkid Regan Thomson from under the noses of Rangers. (Sun)
Celtic are monitoring Stoke City striker Tyrese Campbell, with a number of clubs also interested in the England U20 international. (Daily Record)
Newcastle United are hoping to sign Everton defenders Mason Holgate, 23, and 19-year-old Lewis Gibson, both of whom have been capped by England at youth level. (Northern Echo)
Sheffield United are also keen on Holgate, who is valued at £14m by the Toffees. (Yorkshire Post)
Sunderland have shown an interest in giving Feyenoord midfielder Liam Kelly a route back into English football. (Sun)
Ipswich Town want to make 26-year-old English left-back Luke Garbutt's loan move from Everton a permanent one in January. (East Anglian Daily Times)
Liverpool are interested in signing Coventry City's 19-year-old English left-back Sam McCallum. (90min)
Liverpool and Aston Villa have been monitoring the form of League Two side Swindon Town's 21-year-old German goalkeeper Steven Benda. (Football League World)
Napoli owner Aurelio de Laurentiis says he has "other priorities" than signing Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 38, on a free transfer. (Daily Mirror)
Real Madrid are interested in signing 17-year-old Angola-born French midfielder Eduardo Camavinga from Rennes.
(L'Equipe)
MANAGEMENT STUFF
Alan Pardew is in talks to take over as manager of Dutch club ADO Den Haag. (Sky Sports)
Manchester City are fuming with Arsenal for their pursuit of assistant boss Mikel Arteta and have told the Gunners it will cost them a seven-figure sum to prise him away. (Daily Mirror)
Arteta will meet Arsenal chief Josh Kroenke on Monday night for his third and final interview as he closes in on the manager's job. (Daily Mail)
Former Chelsea, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti has reached an agreement in principle to become the next Everton manager. (Sky Sports)
Unai Emery rejected an approach from the Toffees to replace Marco Silva because he thought it was too early to take another Premier League job after being sacked by Arsenal in November. (Marca)
Bristol Rovers have given Mansfield Town permission to speak to Graham Coughlan over their managerial vacancy.
(Sky Sports)
OTHER STUFF
Arsenal have been warned that China will continue a state sponsored blackout of the club unless executives apologise over the Mesut Ozil Instagram furore. (Daily Telegraph)
Mesut Ozil is finding himself being erased from the internet in China in a backlash at his criticms of the oppression of Uighur Muslims. (Times)
Arsenal defender Kieran Tierney has successfully undergone a shoulder operation. (Sky Sports)
Tottenham Hotspur's senior players urged manager Jose Mourinho to sign Wolves winger Adama Traore after the 23-year-old Spaniard impressed against them at Molineux on Sunday. (Football Insider)
Manchester City's Germany winger Leroy Sane, 23, says he has returned to the football pitch as he edges closer to recovering from knee injury picked up in the Community Shield in August. (Manchester Evening News)
Luke Shaw spread a little Christmas cheer by buying staff at Manchester United's training camp a Harrod's hamper. (Daily Mail)
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has a private jet on stand-by to fly in any U23 reinforcements to the Club World Cup after they play against Aston Villa. (Sun)
Burnley chief executive David Baldwin will leave the club at the end of the season to take over as CEO at the EFL. (Sky Sports)
FIFA has filed claims in the relevant Swiss courts against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former vice-president Michel Platini over "undue payments". (Sky Sports)
Former Barnsley assistant manager Tommy Wright has been found guilty of accepting a bribe of £5,000 to leak commercial information about players.
(Sky Sports)