Football transfer rumours: Yannick Bolasie to Tottenham Hotspur?

The Rumour Mill didn’t get where it is today closing in on a deal for Pedro, but various reports suggest that’s exactly how Manchester United have got to where they are today. Resigned to being fourth-choice striker behind Barcelona’s three amigos, the 27-year-old wants to go to Old Trafford, where bean-counters have not only met his £22m release clause, but exchanged awkward pleasantries with it, brought it out for a gluttonous and ribald lunch and then escorted it to a hotel room they’d cheekily booked for the afternoon.

Having more or less told his striker he’s welcome to do one by reducing the release clause in question, newly re-elected Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has stopped short of saying he would really, really like Pedro to stay at the Camp Nou, but was gracious enough to point out that it’s nice to have him around the place. “Pedro only recently renewed,” he said. “Sometimes he doesn’t play much, that’s true, but he’s a part of the history of this club. He was part of the first treble, and now the second.” In other Camp Nou housekeeping news, Bartomeu has promised to contest Uefa’s decision to fine them €30,000 because some of their fans waved Catalan flags at the Champions League final in June. If they’d only chanted racist slogans instead, they’d probably have got away with less than half that amount.
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