FOOTBALL TRANSFER RUMOURS: ELI JUNIOR KROUPI TO BOOST BARCELONA ATTACK?

Today’s tittle-tattle is walking on sunshine After waving Robert Lewandowski off into the sunset at the end of last season, Barcelona are in need of a new striker. The only one on their books scored the winner in the World Cup final.

Sport | The Guardian reports that today’s tittle-tattle is walking on sunshine After waving Robert Lewandowski off into the sunset at the end of last season, Barcelona are in need of a new striker.

The report adds: The only one on their books scored the winner in the World Cup final.

Julián Alvarez is at the centre of a Spanish tug of war this summer – he wants to leave Atlético Madrid and is wanted by Barcelona and Real Madrid, who had a £129m bid rejected in June.

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