Premier League clubs are putting the finishing touches to their squads. Arsenal transfers In: David Raya — Brentford, £3m loan fee Kai Havertz — Chelsea, £65m Jurrien Timber — Ajax, £34.3m Declan Rice — West Ham £105m Out: Granit Xhaka — Bayer Leverkusen, €25m Pablo Mari — Monza, undisclosed Ainsley Maitland-Niles — released Zach Awe — released Joel Ideho — …
Last-day diplomacy is not on the agenda for Joey Barton as he talks sausage rolls and bonfires, stirs up a cross-city rivalry and needles away at rival managers as his Bristol Rovers team chase promotion from League Two. Barton lets it be known he is ‘not massively keen’ on Jon Brady at Northampton, holds Swindon’s Ben Garner responsible for the …
