Football gossip: Bolt, De Jong, Alderweireld, Sancho, Ramsey
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Jamaican eight-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt, 32, has been offered a two-year contract with Maltese club Valletta FC. (ESPN)
Manchester City are prepared to pay £62m for Ajax's 21-year-old Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong, who has also been linked with Barcelona and Tottenham. (Mundo Deportivo, via Sun)
City have a buy-back clause on Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho, giving them first refusal on the 18-year-old England international. (Manchester Evening News)
Manchester United have dismissed suggestions the Premier League club could soon be put up for sale. (Mirror)
Barcelona have joined Manchester United in the race to sign Tottenham's 29-year-old Belgium centre-back Toby Alderweireld. (Mirror)
Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey, 27, is open to joining one of Arsenal's top six rivals if he leaves Emirates Stadium on a free transfer in the summer. (ESPN)
Manchester United and Spurs will have to wait to find out if Chelsea will try to re-sign Netherlands defender Nathan Ake, if either club follow up their interest in the 23-year-old Bournemouth defender. (Telegraph)
Chelsea are prepared to spend 20m euros (£17.6m) on Brescia's Italian midfielder Sandro Tonali, 28, in the January transfer window. (Calciomercato - in Italian)
Liverpool are interested in Napoli and Italy forward Lorenzo Insigne, 27. (Rai Sport - via Sun)
Chelsea and France striker Olivier Giroud, 32, says he was not as close to leaving Stamford Bridge for Ligue 1 side Marseille in the summer as some reports suggested. (Express)
Manchester United and England left-back Luke Shaw's proposed new five-year deal at Old Trafford is worth £160,000 a week. The 23-year-old's current contract expires in the summer. (Times - subscription required)
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane, 26, was pictured wearing a cast on his left hand after suffering an injury before Senegal's game against Sudan. (Mail)
Spanish full-back Alberto Moreno, 26, is set to leave the Reds at the end of the season a free transfer. (Goal)
Southampton, Crystal Palace and Cardiff are tracking Roma's 32-year-old Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko, who wants to return to the Premier League. (Mirror)
Fulham's 18-year-old England Under-21 international Ryan Sessegnon - who can play either at left-back or left-wing - says the step up to the Premier League has been a "bit harder" than he thought and he has had to get bigger to cope with the physical demands. (Mail)
Newcastle want to sign Netherlands-born Cape Verde winger Garry Rodrigues, 27, from Galatasaray. (Hurriyet - in Turkish)
Everton's 36-year-old Englishdefender Phil Jagielka looks unlikely to stay beyond the end of the season, when his contract ends. (Liverpool Echo)
Belgium winger Kevin Mirallas, 31, does not want to return to Everton when his loan spell at Italian side Fiorentina finishes. (La Nazione - in Italian)
Arsenal's Francedefender Laurent Koscielny, 33, says part of him was rooting against his country in July's World Cup final against Croatia - a tournament he missed because of injury. (Canal Plus, via Goal.com)
New Aston Villa manager Dean Smith says it was his decision to appoint John Terry as his assistant and laughed off suggestions the 37-year-old ex-Chelsea and England captain could undermine him. (Guardian)