Football gossip: Bolt, De Jong, Alderweireld, Sancho, Ramsey

Football gossip

Jamaican eight-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt, 32, has been offered a two-year contract with Maltese club Valletta FC. (ESPN)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

Manchester United have dismissed suggestions the Premier League club could soon be put up for sale. (Mirror) external-link

Barcelona have joined Manchester United in the race to sign Tottenham's 29-year-old Belgium centre-back Toby Alderweireld. (Mirror)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

Liverpool are interested in Napoli and Italy forward Lorenzo Insigne, 27. (Rai Sport - via Sun)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

Spanish full-back Alberto Moreno, 26, is set to leave the Reds at the end of the season a free transfer. (Goal)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

Newcastle want to sign Netherlands-born Cape Verde winger Garry Rodrigues, 27, from Galatasaray. (Hurriyet - in Turkish)external-link

Everton's 36-year-old Englishdefender Phil Jagielka looks unlikely to stay beyond the end of the season, when his contract ends. (Liverpool Echo)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

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)external-link

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