Football transfer rumours: Spurs' Christian Eriksen to PSG for £100m?

Today’s fluff wants all you gappers and finger snappers

Having failed to recruit a single player before the time available for incoming deals ran out, Tottenham’s summer transfer window is only now starting to hot up, with this morning’s newspapers linking them with a stadium-fund-swelling if slightly optimistic £150m-worth of outgoings. The Express exclusively report that Paris St-Germain are ready to spend £100m on Christian Eriksen, on whom the French side “have long been keen”, but that Spurs are “equally determined not to sell”. The Parisians aren’t the only club whose eye has been caught by the twinkle-toed Dane: according to the Star Real Madrid could join the chase if they sell Luka Modric to Internazionale (though according to Tuttosport that move is becoming less likely).

Spurs are considerably less determined to hold on to Danny Rose, with the Mirror reporting that they would be happy to wave him farewell – though if they receive the £50m they apparently want for their 28-year-old reserve left-back astonishment would be a more appropriate emotion. PSG – them again – “have joined Schalke in the chase”, apparently. And Rose might not be the only Englishman heading for Gelsenkirchen, with Schalke also attempting to bring in Chelsea’s Ruben Loftus-Cheek on loan. It sounds like they shouldn’t get their hopes up: “Loftus-Cheek is minded to stay and fight for his place,” says the Mail, while the Telegraph insist that “the prospect of the 22-year-old being allowed to leave is described as ‘extremely unlikely’”.

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