Arsenal have compiled an eight-player shortlist amid plans to make a big signing in January, while Paris Saint-Germain could compete with Manchester City, Liverpool and Manchester United for Sporting CP winger Geovany Quenda.

What needs to be done in the transfer market in 2025 will be heavily influenced by the futures of Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold, whose current deals all expire at the end of this season. All three have received contract offers from the club, but who stays and who goes remains unclear.

Christopher Nkunku remains eager to leave Chelsea in the forthcoming January transfer window, sources have told CaughtOffside. The French attacker has been delegated a role in the club’s ‘B Team’ this campaign,