Newcastle United target a January move for Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo, Manchester United close in on appointing Ruben Amorim as manager, while Arsenal work on a deal for Leroy Sane.

Newcastle United are keen on signing Brentford’s Cameroon forward Bryan Mbeumo, 25, in January but the Magpies face spending restrictions. (Telegraph – subscription required), external

Liverpool and Arsenal also hold interest in Mbeumo, who Brentford value at about £50m. (Newcastle Chronicle), external

Manchester United hope to appoint Sporting manager Ruben Amorim in time for Sunday’s Premier League match against Chelsea at Old Trafford. (Times – subscription required), external

However, Manchester United are locked in talks with Sporting over Amorim’s notice period, which is a number of weeks. (Mail), external

Amorim will still be in charge for Sporting’s next league fixture on Friday, before travelling to Manchester. (CNN Portugal), external

The Portuguese manager, 39, wants to sign Sporting’s Portugal centre-back Goncalo Inacio, 23, English winger Marcus Edwards, 25, and Portuguese forward Pedro Goncalves, 26, once he is at Manchester United. (Teamtalk), external

United’s interim boss Ruud van Nistelrooy expects to leave the club when Amorim is appointed. (Independent), external

Manchester City remain hopeful that Pep Guardiola will extend his stay as manager, and the club are adamant they had not lined up Amorim as a potential replacement. (Mail), external

Whoever succeeds Erik ten Hag as Manchester United manager will have a limited budget to strengthen the squad in January. (Guardian), external

Manchester United are interested in signing Bayern Munich’s 23-year-old Canada full-back Alphonso Davies, but the player is set on a move to Real Madrid. (Sky Sports Switzerland, via Give Me Sport), external

Arsenal are working on a deal to sign Germany winger Leroy Sane, 28, when his Bayern Munich contract expires next summer. (Football Insider), external

Sporting are willing to sell Viktor Gyokeres for between £50m and £58m next summer, with Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea interested in the 26-year-old Sweden striker. (Florian Plettenberg), external

Manchester United will cut their losses on £86m Brazil winger Antony, 24, following Erik ten Hag’s sacking. (Talksport), external

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou is leaning towards offloading German forward Timo Werner, 28, at the end of the season. (GiveMeSport), external

West Ham are unlikely to have any money to spend in the January transfer window. (Football Insider), external

“We talked a little bit about the game we played there and about living in Aberdeen and how his time was here.”

Ferguson won a raft of major trophies – including the 1983 European Cup-Winners’ Cup – during a glittering eight years in charge at Aberdeen.

He left Pittodrie in 1986, going on to amass plenty more silverware at home and abroad with Manchester United, whom he managed for 27 years.

However, the 82-year-old recently lost his ambassador role at Old Trafford.

“We only talked about football generally,” Thelin said as he prepared for Wednesday’s high-profile visit by third-top Rangers, for whom Ferguson was a striker.

Describing the Scot as “the top man” for what he did for Aberdeen, Thelin said they chatted about “how he can reinvent himself so many times” as a manager over the years.

“We talked about how it was to live here and he wished me luck,” he added. “I was really young when he was here and he went to United.

“It was more not about the tactical things, more about leadership, how you can for such a long time at two clubs be inspirational to new players and try to keep going.

“That is the thing you try to do yourself when you are a coach is to be consistent.”

RUBEN AMORIM would have preferred to leave Lisbon in a blaze of glory after winning a third Primeira Liga title.

Yet football does not work like that. And in what was surely his final game before taking charge of Manchester United, Amorim prepared to say his goodbyes at a half-empty Estadio Jose Alvalade in a League Cup quarter-final against Nacional.

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Sporting won 3-1 thanks to second-half goals by captain Morten Hjulmand and Viktor Gyokeres, who scored two.

Luis Esteves pulled one back for Madeira-based Nacional.

At the end of the match, Amorim headed down the tunnel without acknowledging the home fans.

Amorim said on the Man Utd link: “Nothing to say yet, no announcement to make. Now I have nothing to say, we are here carrying out analysis.

“Everything I say will only create more noise. There is nothing to say about the matter. There is the statement, everyone knows. It was said by the club.

“Besides, we don’t know the details for sure. We’ll see. It will go through my decision as the statement said. But saying half things now doesn’t seem best to me.”

The stadium will be a good deal more lively on Tuesday when Manchester City are here for a Champions League match — although Amorim should by then have his feet firmly under his desk at Old Trafford.

Liverpool and Aston Villa were both interested in Europe’s most sought-after coach. Even City could have been a possible destination post-Pep Guardiola.

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Yet the United job is one Amorim, 39, could not turn down — even if not everyone saw it that way at Sporting.

There is clearly a huge split in the Portuguese club’s fan base over their coach leaving at this stage of the season with many believing he should have seen the job through.

Yet Amorim, along with the three-man coaching team who are expected to follow him, leaves a club in a much better state than when he arrived here in 2020.

Inside the stadium, there was applause — albeit muted — when his name was read out before the game along with the line-ups.

And there did not appear to be any jeers when Amorim shuffled out from the tunnel awkwardly towards the dugout.

So, while his departure is hard to take for some, none of the fans will forget his legacy.

This is a club which is back as the dominant force in Portugal. Even this term, Sporting have won their first nine league games, scoring 30 goals and conceding just two.

Amorim’s Sporting legacy

They are also eighth in the Champions League table, which is one hell of an effort.

In contrast, Lisbon was not exactly hit by League Cup fever.
Amorim made lots of changes, which saw Sporting’s star man Gyokeres, the former Coventry striker, start on the bench.

There was, however, a first appearance in six weeks for former Tottenham winger Marcus Edwards. He is certainly one player who has been transformed by Amorim since arriving at the club from Vitoria in 2022 and will be sorry to see the coach leave.

While he changed his team, Amorim stuck with his tried and trusted formation of a back three.

It will certainly be something United fans will have to get used to over the coming months.

But looking at the Premier League table, none of them will be complaining about the change.

Sporting boss Ruben Amorim says he has not yet made a decision about his future after Manchester United expressed an interest in appointing him manager.

Sporting confirmed earlier on Tuesday that United had made an approach and are willing to pay Amorim’s 10m euros (£8.3m) release clause.

Speaking after his side’s 3-1 Portuguese League Cup quarter-final win against Nacional on Tuesday evening, Amorim told Sport TV:, external “Nothing is decided yet. I don’t know if it’s the farewell game or not.”

Then in a news conference he added: “There is interest from Manchester United, there is the payment of a contract term and when I have something more solid, I will come here and tell my position, because it will be my choice.

“While I don’t have everything decided, for one side or the other, I can’t tell much more”.

Amorim added that he will be at training on Wednesday to prepare for Friday’s league game against Estrela da Amadora.

Asked if he will be in the dugout at Old Trafford for Manchester United’s game against Chelsea on Sunday, Amorim said: “I will be here.” But when pressed added: “I don’t know.”

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says United would be getting a high-level coach in Amorim.

“All I can talk about is the experience of playing twice against Ruben’s Sporting Lisbon team, one or two seasons ago, and the pressure was really, really good,” the Spaniard told a news conference.

“And look this season, he is unbeaten and winning all the games in the Portuguese League and the Champions League, [they have] the same points as us. So a high manager.

“What’s going to happen I don’t know, because what happened here in my experience, doesn’t mean it works for the other ones. The manager, the team, the club, the structures, the physios, the doctors, the players, it’s many things”.

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