Gossip: Liverpool’s forward career almost ended

Rhian Brewster is heading to Palace now, apparently, with Sheffield United looking elsewhere, while a pair of long-running summer transfer sagas continue to rumble as we rush into the sweet release of death.

PALACE COUP
The race to sign Liverpool outcast Rhian Brewster is officially heating up with Crystal Palace now apparently having STOLEN A MARCH from rivals Aston Villa and Sheffield United.

Liverpool wants £ 20m plus a buyback clause, and The Sun acknowledges that Palace is Brewster’s first choice because he’s at That London and is eager to sit down and chat with Uncle Roy. Sheffield United – and possibly Villa – now they are considering Daniel Sturridge as the solution to the forward-shaped hole in his squad. He’s a free agent after leaving Trabzonspor in March, so it could be a relatively straightforward deal for someone you imagine.

In other Liverpool news, Watford’s sale price for Ismaila Sarr has only dropped from £ 40m to £ 35m despite Liverpool’s interest having cooled significantly after they signed Diogo Jota.

RICE AND RATES
The money-spending Chelsea has finally decided to pull the trigger and make a formal offer of “ over £ 40 million ” for West Ham midfielder Declan Rice and, according to Sun on sunday, that will work because the Hammers are ‘desperate for money’.

That would certainly seem like a fair appraisal of poor David Sullivan’s own assessment of the situation after he declared himself ‘depressed’ over the lack of summer signings and admitted that the club has ‘limited funds’. Excellent way to convince a young England international to give up his peak years to the club. It’s almost like they want Chelsea to throw a ton of money at them, somehow.

In another part of the same newspaper, a suggestion that the perennial joke club will put out the begging bowl in return and try to get Antonio Rudiger on loan. West Ham fans looking for good news should at least reassure themselves that all life on earth is ending relatively soon.

SECOND OFFER OF SHELLERS
After Lyon turned down a £ 32 million offer for Arsenal’s longtime target, Houssem Aouar, the Gunners are already preparing a second increased offer of around £ 36.5 million with another potential £ 9 million in add-ons that would lead to the Total potential rate pretty close to what the always straightforward Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas wanted.

Soccer – London They report that even though Aouar has plenty of suitors in Europe, no other club has made a formal offer and Arsenal could close down personal terms and the like pretty quickly once the gibberish of dealing with Aulas is sorted out.

The Gunners remain interested in Thomas Partey as well, while perhaps their most arduous task of the remaining days of this transfer window is balancing the books by clearing up a large amount of expensively acquired deadwood, including Lucas Torreira, Sead Kolasinac, Shkodran Mustafi , Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Matteo Guendouzi and, of course, Mesut Ozil.