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John Brewin and Dominic Booth

Transfer window: Brighton move to sign Fati, Lukaku joins Roma – as it happened

Ansu Fati Brighton Keinan Davis Chelsea
Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku has completed his loan move to Roma.
Rom in Rome: Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku has completed his loan move to Roma. Photograph: Fabio Rossi/AS Roma/Getty Images

Here are our latest transfer stories; don’t forget you can keep up to date on all the latest moves with our interactive.

That concludes the live blog for now, but there’ll be plenty of transfer news through the evening. Then, tomorrow we’ll be live from 9am till close as the window SLAMS SHUT. Keep up to date here, too.

Reguilon headed for Manchester United

Multiple sources now report that Manchester United are close to agreeing a deal with Tottenham to loan Sergio Reguilon. Reguilon has been granted permission to travel to Manchester to have a medical…that puts an end to the move for Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella. United are still in the hunt for Fiorentina’s Sofyan Amrabat.

Joe Pearson gets in touch: “Can you explain the ‘subject to international clearance’ caveat in the Nat Phillips tweet ... er X? Last time I checked, the UK includes the metropolitan areas of both Liverpool and Glasgow.”

In accordance with FIFA Regulations, international clearance is required for any player over the age of 10 who is seeking to register for a club in England and has previously been registered for a club abroad (including the other Home Associations), or who is a foreign national seeking to register for the first time in this country.

Simply put, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are counted as foreign as they have their own leagues/associations.

Looks like a few out at Chelsea before 11pm tomorrow, though maybe not Chalobah. Bayern have yet to reach an agreement over Palhinha since Fulham haven’t found a replacement. Tick tock.

Meanwhile, looks like Cole Palmer will be a Chelsea player very soon.

There’s a Champions League draw on, no less. Follow it live here.

Wolves have signed Uruguayan defender Santiago Bueno on a five-year contract from Spanish side Girona.

Some info from Reuters: He made his Uruguay debut in March under former Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa. “He’s six foot four inches and aggressive, as you’d expect from a Uruguayan centre back, but he can play too and gives us a good balance,” said Wolves sporting director Matt Hobbs. “He’s a perfect fit for what we’ve been looking for.” Wolves are away to Crystal Palace on Sunday in their next league game.

Nat Phillips joins Celtic on loan from Liverpool

Fun fact: Nat’s dad Jimmy played 25 matches for Rangers in the 1987-88 season before returning home to be Mr Bolton.

More on Matheus Nunes, and his imminent move from Wolves to Manchester City. The Wolves manager, Gary O’Neil, has been talking. Wolves needed to sell players this summer after going too close to the FFP limits. That lost them Julen Lopetegui and brought in O’Neil at just a couple of days’ notice. Nunes went on strike earlier this week.

The situation is resolved, he [Nunes] is signing for Manchester City. The offer. At that point it was a lot lower and we weren’t going to accept...

If he had rejoined the group I would have told him what I felt. When I dealt with him before he worked hard and did what he could for the club. Then a big club came calling and players want to play for Manchester City. We move on.

Mark Flatley gets in touch: “John, I’m very worried. We’re drawing nearer to 5pm, and STILL no picture from Twitter/Instagram of Mo Salah smiling (thus confirming that he is staying at Liverpool, that’s how this works yeah?). Very worried indeed that this bodes ill...”

Two fine gentlemen of the press, David Ornstein and John Cross, discussed this last night on Sky. A reminder the Saudi window closes far later than the European window meaning a few more days of jeopardy for the likes of Mark.

Richard Hirst, a Fulham fan, gets in touch: “You’re right, this Fulham fan is very concerned. I’d be devastated but understand if Palhinha went to Bayern - guaranteed championship medal and Champions League football - but you’d hope that Fulham would at least strike a hard bargain for the best defensive midfielder (and a goal scorer to boot) in the Premier League. Declan Rice money rather than Mason Mount. ( But if you’re reading this Joao, please don’t go!).”

Source: Palhinha to join Bayern

It looks as if Fulham are going to lose key man Joao Palhinha. That’s a real blow. Who can they sign before the window closes? They’re a completely different outfit without him.

Kári Tulinius gets in touch: “Roma are my favorite Italian club, and landing Lukaku could be a coup. But while I’m excited about the transfer, any hopes I have are tempered by the fact this is Mourinho’s third season at the club. They could sign Mbappé and Kim Min-Jae but it wouldn’t break my conviction that this season Jose will muck things up.”

We’ve already seen Beto, Everton’s new striker, in action. He scored in last night’s defeat of Doncaster, the lowest team in the EFL in the EFL Cup. Sean Dyche, ahead of the weekend’s match with Sheffield United, on the man who must replace Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

It’s not about taking pressure off of anyone. It’s about adding to our strike force. We have been searching for that for a long time, he is a player we have been monitoring for a long time. A player who desperately wanted to come here and so we got that done.

Back to his performance, his clearance came through late so we couldn’t plan on him starting, but we were hoping he’d be available so the plan was always to get him on for a half if we could. I am pleased with his performance.

On that note, I shall hand back to John Brewin. He shall guide you through this afternoon’s transfer thistles and weeds.

Manchester United are ‘seriously considering’ signing Sergio Reguilon, according to The Athletic.

It was thought a loan for Marc Cucurella could be struck, with Ten Hag searching for a short-term Luke Shaw-shaped stop-gap. But the Spurs left-back was always a genuine alternative and could now be the favourite.

Fulham fans may be getting a little concerned. Two of their midfielders appear to be subject to serious late-window interest, with João Palhinha seemingly on Bayern Munich’s wish-list (add him to the merry-go-round) and Wolves coming in for Harrison Reed.

Man the barricades at the Cottage, Marco.

Fulham’s Joao Palhinha celebrates
Fulham’s Joao Palhinha could be on the move. Photograph: John Patrick Fletcher/Action Plus/Shutterstock

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The England squad has been announced and people are getting predictably angry:

Ansu Fati chant chat – and there have been a couple of shouts for this one. It’s new and unfamiliar to me, I must admit.

The midfield merry-go-round looks set to dominate the transfer agenda today and tomorrow. The men involved are Ryan Gravenberch, Sofyan Amrabat, Conor Gallagher and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, with Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Bayern Munich all looking to strengthen in that area.

It’s the 2011 January deadline day striker scramble all over again.

Nat Phillips is on the move; a six-month loan from Liverpool to Celtic looks to be on the cards for the *checks notes* 26-year-old. A loan at 26 seems strange, doesn’t it? He’ll be solid enough for the Bhoys though.

Oh Philippe, where did it all go wrong?

Richard in Dublin emails in to express his excitment about the imminent new arrival at the Amex.

I’m already looking forward to the chant ‘You’re the one for me, Fati.’ Brighton fans, please make it happen!

I reckon we can do even better than that. Drop me a line with your chant suggestions.

Incidentally, there are press conferences at Wolves, Everton, Luton, Burnley, West Ham and Sheffield United this afternoon. No doubt all their respective managers will dish out some tasty transfer scoops. Or not. There’s also the SMALL MATTER of Gareth Southgate announcing his England squad.

Thanks John.

I’ll begin my power hour with the news that Dane Scarlett is heading out from Tottenham on loan to Ipswich, as per several good sources. The 19-year-old came off the bench in Tuesday night’s League Cup penalty shootout defeat to Fulham, but is rated by Tractor Boys boss Kieran McKenna as ‘one of the best young strikers in world football’. Is he making room for a major attacking signing at Spurs?

Dominic Booth will take the reins for the next hour or so.

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Some West Ham transfer talk from the Telegraph’s Sam Dean.

Old-golden Pond no more. Or at least not this season.

Steve Cooper, the Nottingham Forest manager, had this to say on Brennan Johnson, the forward linked with both Spurs and Chelsea. He was speaking to BBC Radio Nottingham.

There is a lot of speculation around at the moment. Some of it may be true but some may be as far away as possible - I don’t look at it. Loads of things can happen these next two days.

Translation: there’s probably something afoot.

Tottenham and Bayern want Chelsea's Gallagher

Gallagher captained Chelsea during their victory over AFC Wimbledon on Wednesday night and Mauricio Pochettino has started him in every game this season. However, the midfielder has less than two years left on his deal and it is understood there is a strong chance of him leaving his boyhood club before the transfer window shuts on Friday night.

Chelsea have spent heavily on their midfield this summer, buying Moisés Caicedo, Lesley Ugochukwu and Roméo Lavia, and they are open to offers for Gallagher.

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Wolves have signed an 18-year-old winger from Paraguay, Enso Gonzalez.

Nottingham Forest have shed another player in midfielder Lewis O’Brien, who has joined Middlesbrough for the season.

Per PA Media.

The 24-year-old was signed by Forest from Huddersfield following their return to the Premier League at the start of last season and made 17 appearances in all competitions before being left out of Steve Cooper’s 25-man squad in January. This resulted in a temporary switch to DC United, managed by former England striker Wayne Rooney, where he featured 17 times in the MLS.

Plenty of transfer talk in this recording from this morning, Plenty of other stuff too. Anyway, here’s the latest Football Weekly Extra.

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The Nottingham Forest manager, Steve Cooper, says deals to sign Nuno Tavares and Murillo “are at the final stages”.

Forest have been reported to be close to signing left-back Tavares on a season-long loan from Arsenal and have agreed a fee of around £15million for the permanent signing of defender Murillo, 21, from Brazilian club Corinthians.

Two signings to conjure top pop tunes.

Stoke have completed the signing of South Korea Under-20 international Bae Junho. The midfielder, who joins from Daejon Hana Citizen for an undisclosed fee, has penned a four-year contract.

Done deal: Lukaku joins Roma on season's loan

It’s another loan for Lukaku, whose Chelsea contract still has three years to run though he has agreed to a pay cut to return to Italy. Roma are the 11th team he will have played for, and he’s had two separate spells at Chelsea and Inter.

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Sheffield United sign Luke Thomas

Per PA Media.
Sheffield United have signed Leicester left-back Luke Thomas on a season-long loan.

The 22-year-old has not featured this season for the Foxes amid uncertainty around his future and has now sealed a return to the Premier League for the 2023/24 campaign. He becomes the ninth signing of the summer for the Blades, who still want to do more work before Friday’s transfer deadline.

Thomas, who won the FA Cup with his hometown club, says he turned down interest from other teams to move to Bramall Lane. “When United came in a few days ago, it was an easy decision for me. Coming back to playing Premier League football is obviously what I wanted to do,” he said. “Coming here is a great experience and I can’t wait to get started.

Manchester City agree deal to sign Nunes

Per Ben Fisher.

Wolves have commanded a club-record sale, surpassing the £47m departure of their former captain Rúben Neves to the Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal earlier this summer. City and Wolves came to the agreement, a deal containing no add-ons, late on Wednesday night and Nunes has travelled to Manchester to undergo a medical before completing the move.

Wolves will receive 10% of any profit City make on the future sale of the Portugal midfielder, who made clear his desire to move after failing to report for training since Sunday, after City’s first bid of £47m was rejected. Nunes joined Wolves from Sporting in a club-record £42m deal last summer and had four years, plus a 12-month club option, to run on his contract.

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One of the odder deals of the summer though Palmer clearly fancies getting more playing time at Chelsea rather than City.

Will Unwin with more transfer talk: make that Aaron Ramsey, Cameron Archer and now Keinan Davis of former Villa youth products shipped out.

Brighton move for Ansu Fati loan

Would Ansu Fati’s arrival at Brighton be the coup of the summer? And what will it mean for the likes of Solly March, Evan Ferguson and Julio Enciso. Perhaps the latter’s injury forced the issue for Brighton.

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Preamble

Morning, morning, and there’s less than 48 hours to go until the window slams shut. You know the drill by now: Manchester United desperation and Chelsea signing everyone, and lots of other stuff besides. The latest news and reaction as the deals – and no deals – roll in.

Handily, Will Unwin has supplied the latest red-hot rumours. So, let’s get going.

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