Transfer news LIVE: Lopetegui to be sacked by West Ham, Vlahovic to Man Utd, Arsenal latest

Chelsea star Renato Veiga is being watched by a number of clubs for a possible January move.

The Portuguese defender has been brilliant in Chelsea’s Conference League campaign but has had no opportunities to shine in the Premier League under Enzo Maresca.

German club Stuttgart are interested in bringing him in this month but they face competition from Napoli and Juventus from Serie A.

Sky Sports’ Dharmesh Sheth says that there are a few clubs interested in signing Manchester United’s Antony. At this stage most of the interest comes in terms of a loan move but United are willing to consider them.

Antony joined from Ajax in the summer of 2022 for £82m and has not started a Premier League game this season.

Newcastle United were one of many clubs affected by profit and sustainability rules and in order to comply with the guidelines they have been forced to part ways with players who would otherwise have remained at the club: Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh being two of the obvious ones.

Because of this speculation continues to grow around Newcastle’s bets players with Alexander Isak and Bruno Guimaraes both repeatedly linked with moves away from the club.

Newcastle are in a better financial position but manager Eddie Howe admitted they are still in a place were business decisions may outweight footballing ones.

Speaking about those earlier player says, Howe said: “That was very much the business taking over the football, and I think we’re still in that position to a degree.”

The Hammers were beaten 4-1 by Manchester City at the weekend and at 14th in the table with fears they could be drawn into a relegation battle.

Lopetegui was brought in as a replacement for David Moyes with the aim of bringing a more exciting brand of football to the London Stadium but instead the club have seen performances get worse.

talkSPORT also say that the Irons are preparing to make Graham Potter, the former Chelsea and Brighton manager, the new boss to replace Lopetegui.

United see Zirkzee as an important member of their squad, though the 23-year-old has only scored four goals in 27 appearances since his £36.5m move from Bologna.

Manchester United are keeping tabs on PSG’s Nuno Mendes ahead of a potential summer move. Mendes has entered the final 18 months of his contract and talks over a new contract with the French side have stalled0

United are looking to bolster their left-back options and Mendes could fit the bill. The club recently agreed a deal for Paraguayan defender Diego Leon who turns 18 in April.

It is thought the player will arrive in Manchester soon for a medical.

The England international was at fault for Manchester United’s opener in the 2-2 draw at Anfield and was generally poor throughout, falling well below the high standards he has set himself.

At the start of the week Real, with whom Alexander-Arnold has been strongly linked with his contract expiring in the summer, made an approach about the possibility of signing the 26-year-old in the current transfer window.

Virgil van Dijk revealed that he is no closer to signing a new Liverpool deal after the team’s 2-2 draw with Manchester United on Sunday.

Speaking to Sky Sports, he said: “I don’t think so, but I am calm about it, like I said months ago.

“We’ll see what happens in the future and at this point I have got absolutely no update. It’s all about at the moment focusing, for me and the team, on Spurs [on Wednesday night]. It will be a tough game again, but a good [Carabao Cup] semi-final.”

Another signing to announce as Ipswich have agreed a loan deal for Atalanta defender Ben Godfrey. The deal for the ex-Everton man and two-cap England international was announced yesterday in the wake of the draw with Fulham.

“It’s been an exciting couple of days and I’m just delighted to have signed and can’t wait to meet the lads and get started,” Godfrey told the Ipswich website.

“I have really enjoyed speaking to the manager (Kieran McKenna) and to have the opportunity to work under him now is something I’m very excited about. I’ve watched a lot of the games from the first half of the season and you can tell from those that the group is a tight one, full of players giving everything to achieve their goals.

“I’ve not played as much as I would have liked so far this season, but I feel ready to contribute and am looking forward to getting out there.”

For large parts of his Manchester United career, Bruno Fernandes has appeared the answer. Now he posed the question. “If we show this today at Anfield against Liverpool, that is first in the league and has been probably the outstanding team in in the Premier League this season, why we can’t do this every week?”

To draw 2-2 at Anfield represented a shift in mood and immediate improvement, but also a cause for frustration. Ruben Amorim raised the issue of their three home defeats: to Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth and Newcastle, too, not Liverpool. “Some of the games we suffer two goals without doing nothing,” he said.

But then the side he had warned were at risk of relegation instead held the champions elect. If inconsistency appeared a step forward for United, when the alternative was being consistently bad, it isn’t Amorim’s objective.