Football gossip: Grealish, Leno, Boateng, Mane, Alisson, Thiago

Tottenham have offered Aston Villa £15m for their English midfielder Jack Grealish, but Chelsea, Fulham and Leicester are also interested in the 22-year-old. (Sky Sports)

Napoli are willing to drop the price for Maurizio Sarri to £4.5m to encourage Chelsea to appoint their former coach. (Mirror)

Burnley want to sign both English defender Craig Dawson, 28, and striker Jay Rodriguez, 28, from West Brom, for a combined £28m. (Mail)

Arsenal are in advanced talks with Bayer Leverkusen to sign German goalkeeper Bernd Leno, 26. (Sky Sports)

The Gunners are close to spending their £50m summer transfer budget on Leno, Sampdoria's Uruguay midfielder Lucas Torreira, 22, and Borussia Dortmund's Greek centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos, 30. (Evening Standard)

Paris St-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti has been offered to Manchester United after dispiriting talks with the French side's new boss Thomas Tuchel. (Calciomercato - via Metro)

Manchester City's Spanish attacker Brahim Diaz, 18, is wanted by West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini on a season-long loan deal. (Sun)

Germany defender Jerome Boateng, 29, a target for Manchester United, will be allowed to leave Bayern Munich for the right price, according to the club's chief executive, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. (Manchester Evening News)

Newcastle's Congo defender Chancel Mbemba, 23, has agreed a four-year deal with Porto worth £8m. (Mirror)

The agent of Tottenham midfielder Mousa Dembele has flown to Italy to sound out interest from Serie A clubs. Dembele, 30, is on the radar of Juventus, Inter Milan and Napoli. (Talksport)

Everton are battling West Ham for the £25m capture of Toulouse centre-back Issa Diop, 21. (Mirror)

Liverpool forward Sadio Mane says he is happy at the club after speculation linked him with a move to Real Madrid. (Salzburger Nachrichten - via Evening Standard)

The Reds are ready to make a surprise swoop to sign Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope, 26. (90min)

Everton midfielder Mo Besic, 25, will happily join Middlesbrough on loan again if he feels he will have limited opportunity at Goodison Park. (Northern Echo)

Derby manager Frank Lampard wants Chelsea's 20-year-old English defender Jay Dasilva. (Talksport)

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri, 50, says he was approached by Real Madrid as a potential replacement for Zinedine Zidane - but turned it down. (The Sun)

Paris St-Germain's youth team graduate French midfielder Yacine Adli, 17, is set to snub Arsenal and will stay with the Ligue 1 club. (ESPN)

Real Madrid will need to offer Roma 60m euros (£52.83m) in order to land 25-year-old Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson. (La Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian)

Atletico Madrid's France forward Antoine Griezmann could reveal his future plans on Thursday - the 27-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to Barcelona. (Mundo Deportivo - in Spanish)

Barcelona's Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen says he would like to see Spanish 27-year-old midfielder Thiago Alcantara at the Catalan giants. (Bild - in German)

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich faces a difficult decision: whether to sack Antonio Conte and pay him up to £9m in compensation or let the Italian see out the final year of his contract. (Telegraph)

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho's decision to shelve an immediate move for a left-back has bought him time to monitor the progress of two players who can fill that position - Fulham's 18-year-old English player Ryan Sessegnon and Celtic's Scottish defender Kieran Tierney. (Manchester Evening News)

• Wednesday's gossip column