According to Italian Sky Sport reporter Gianluca Di Marzio on Twitter, Everton director of football Steve Walsh and his team has arrived in Milan as the club target deals for Serie A players this summer.

With The Mirror suggesting on Wednesday that Toffees manager Ronald Koeman is willing to spend £150m this summer strengthening his squad – and perhaps more if Romelu Lukaku leaves – he looks to have targeted some Serie A stars for part of the overhaul of his team.

The Dutchman and club owner Farhad Moshiri want the side to be challenging for the top four in the Premier League – as well as making an impression in the Europa League – and they appear ready to try and send out a huge statement of intent.

The fact that Walsh has been spotted in Milan would suggest that the Merseyside outfit are ready to open talks with AC and Inter over some of their stars, and both clubs certainly have a lot of talent on offer that would boost Koeman’s side.

Here are three Serie A stars Everton should sign this summer…

Marcelo Brozovic

The 24-year-old arrived at Inter Milan in 2015 with big hopes on his shoulders following some impressive form for Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatia national side, but he has perhaps struggled to live up to that expectation at the San Siro.

The versatile Brozovic, who can play in a range of midfield positions but has usually been deployed as a box-to-box player by Inter, scored six goals and provided a further four assists in 28 appearances in all competitions for the Serie A outfit last season and would certainly provide some stiff competition for Idrissa Gueye and Morgan Schneiderlin in the middle of the park.

Carlos Bacca

If Romelu Lukaku does leave Everton this summer there is no doubt that his replacement would have big shoes to fill considering the Belgian netted 25 Premier League goals this season and has been a consistent goalscorer for the Toffees for the past four campaigns.

However, the Toffees may feel that Bacca could do exactly that having netted 34 times in 74 appearances in all competitions for AC Milan since moving to Italy from Serie A in 2015.

The 30-year-old is known for his finishing ability and while he may not be a long-term solution, he would provide goals at least over the next couple of seasons.

Gianluca Lapadula

The 27-year-old is perhaps the most intriguing name on the list as he seems to have gone under the radar at AC Milan – mainly because of the performances of Bacca.

Lapadula moved to the San Siro last summer after scoring 30 goals in 46 appearances in all competitions for Serie B outfit Pescara, and he certainly did well to net eight and provide a further four assists in 29 outings for Milan last season.

A prolific finisher with great strength and ability to play across the frontline, he could certainly add to a Toffees attack that has already lost Arouna Kone and Enner Valencia this summer.

Do you agree, Toffees fans? Let us know below.

Leeds United are planning to table an improved second bid for FC Twente midfielder Mateusz Klich, according to Dutch publication Tubantia.

What’s the story?

The Championship club are yet to bring in any new players under new head coach Thomas Christiansen, but it is believed that they are looking to bolster the midfield.

Tubantia claim that the Whites have already had a bid rejected by the Dutch outfit.

It has not put them off making a move, though, as the Championship club are reportedly planning to lodge a fresh figure.

Klich is believed to have expressed a desire to leave FC Twente, despite only being at the club for one season following a free transfer from German club Kaiserlautern.

Is Klich right for Leeds?

When a new manager arrives at a club in between seasons, it is difficult to know what kind of style he will implement until it is displayed during pre-season friendlies.

What is clear is that Leeds need some extra options for the middle of the park, and attacking ones at that.

Striker Chris Wood performed well last season, scoring 27 league goals, but the team were largely reliant on his attacking prowess.

Not enough goals came from midfield, but if Klich makes his way to Elland Road, he could get in on the action as he netted six times and provided four assists last season.

Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis connected with the fans this week in a Q&A session, but it seems as though he did not do himself any favours.

The supporters have had a difficult relationship with the club over the last few years, with many frustrated by the transfer activity as well as the status of the manager.

Last season in particular, there was a very clear split between the fans, with some happy for Arsene Wenger to stay and others desperate for him to leave.

Groups even held protests outside the ground during the season to urge the club to get rid of the Frenchman due to consistently failed title bids.

Those supporters did not get their wish as Wenger was handed a new two-year contract at the end of the campaign.

During this Q&A, Gazidis discussed upcoming transfers, with ESPN quoting him as saying:

“We spent an unprecedented amount. Over £110m during that summer. We signed one of the players in the Bundesliga team of the season. We’re looking for top-quality players. We’ve got three times as many scouts as we had four years ago. I believe that to be a world-class football club you’ve got to be world class off the pitch. I care about the club and those values. I want the club to be successful.”

Plenty of fans aired their views of Gazidis on Twitter, and many have been left disappointed by the Arsenal figure, who has been accused by some of not being entirely genuine.

With regards to transfers this summer, only Sead Kolasinac has been added to the team, while there is still uncertainty over the futures of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, both of whom run out of their contracts next summer.

According to recent reports from Mirror Football, Tottenham Hotspur are eyeing Swansea City’s Alfie Mawson and Middlesbrough’s Ben Gibson as potential replacements for Kevin Wimmer.

The north London club are ready to offload the Austrian international, who has made just 15 Premier League appearances during his two years at White Hart Lane, for around £20million.

And it appears Mauricio Pochettino wants to sign an English replacement, with Mawson and Gibson in his thoughts.

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Both centre-halves have represented England at U21 level and both were involved in the Premier League’s relegation scrap last season, Mawson’s Swans succeeding where Gibson’s Boro failed in avoiding the drop, so there really isn’t much to choose between them.

With that in mind, we asked Spurs fans earlier this week who they’d prefer to see their club sign this summer and rather incredibly, our poll turned out to be a dead heat with each centre-back claiming 50% of the vote.

Whichever defender Pochettino brings to north London this summer, it’s bound to divide opinion. But which side of the debate do you stand on? Let us know by commenting below!

West Ham United completed the £16m signing of Bayer Leverkusen striker Javier Hernandez on Monday, and fans of arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur were confused as to why they weren’t in for the 29-year-old.

The Mexico international, who this year became his country’s all-time leading goalscorer, moves to the London Stadium on a three-year deal after scoring 39 goals in 76 appearances in all competitions for the Bundesliga outfit during a two-year spell in Germany.

Considering his impressive goals-to-games ratio and previous experience in the Premier League with Manchester United, Spurs fans obviously feel that they should have taken a closer look at the Mexican to provide cover for Harry Kane following the struggled of Vincent Janssen last term.

Tottenham supporters were quick to have their say on the signing for their London neighbours via social media, and while some said they were “jealous”, others believe that he should be a Spurs player.

Here is just a selection of the Twitter reaction…

It wouldn’t be an English Premier League weekend without some sort of refereeing controversy to discuss and this weekend is no different after Saturday’s action with Arsenal left fuming after decisions they perceive went against them unfairly.

Stoke ran out 1-0 winners thanks to a Jese Rodriguez debut goal but the Gunners were not focused on that after the match, believing that they could have drawn or even won the game had Andre Marriner and his team made different calls.

From a penalty shout for a challenge on Hector Bellerin to Alexandre Lacazette’s disallowed offside goal, Arsene Wenger was not a happy man in his post-match interview.

As quoted by the BBC, Wenger said:

We know we don’t get penalties. Look at the numbers and you will see. We had last year the highest number of penalties against us at home by a mile and the lowest number for us. So I give you just the numbers. I don’t say anything else.

Ultimately it was the Gunners’ inability to create chances that cost them the match but on another day the decisions that went against them could have gone for them.

Arsenal fans weren’t anymore happy with the officiating, many believing the Lacazette offside ruling was impossible to determine from a distance.

They took to Twitter to share their thoughts on it all…

West Ham United had played 29 Premier League games but just ten of them hadn’t resulted in a defeat.

To say it had been an up-and-down season would be wildly off the mark – there were no ups to speak of – but this was a season where the Hammers had spent a week in both first and last positions in the table. After beating Charlton and drawing with Watford in the first two games of the season, West Ham topped the Premier League. But it was all downhill from there, and they’d win just four more games before mid-March. A 6-0 defeat away to Reading served as a particular low.

Then one of the summer signings changed the Hammers’ fortunes.

Over a decade on from that 2006/07 season, and West Ham and Manchester United will meet on the first weekend of the Premier League season, and once again it will be a match involving a striker both sets of fans can bond over.

If Javier Hernandez is half the player for West Ham that Carlos Tevez proved to be in his short time at the club, completely changing the trajectory of the team’s season, then he’ll probably lead the Hammers to one of their most successful Premier League campaigns. It shouldn’t be forgotten that Tevez played in a West Ham side which included Jonathan Spector and Nigel Quashie. Hernandez, meanwhile, will join a side with Joe Hart, Andre Ayew and Manuel Lanzini. It’s a different world.

Back in 2006, though, West Ham signed Tevez and Javier Mascherano in one of English football’s strangest transfers, possibly of all-time. Until Ruben Neves – the Champions League’s youngest-ever captain at the age of 18 – joined Wolves this summer, there weren’t many to rival it for oddness. Perhaps what made the Tevez and Mascherano deals stranger, however, was the third-party ownership issues it raised.

But when Tevez was finally transferred, he didn’t settle straight away into life in Upton Park.

Because of events that would take place later in the season, Sheffield United became the most vocal and aggrieved critics of the Premier League’s decision to allow West Ham to sign the Argentinian duo in the first place Both were clearly two of world football’s brightest young talents at the time, and both were signed in reasonably suspicious circumstances. But it was during a game against the Bramall Lane side in November – one of the side’s few pre-Christmas victories – which proved to be controversial long before relegation even entered into the mind.

After being substituted, Tevez stormed off, throwing a tantrum and leaving the ground. He received a fine from his manager and his teammates, but although the Hammers won the game on the day, you get the feeling that if Sheffield United ended the season incensed that West Ham had somehow cheated them out of their Premier League status, they were more than likely laughing at the mess the East London club had managed to get themselves into on that day in November.

They were in an even bigger mess in March when, after three successive wins – the club’s first back-to-back victories since late October and early November – Sheffield United hosted West Ham at Bramall Lane and won 3-0. A 4-1 defeat to Chelsea followed, and they looked to be heading for the drop. Once again, the Blades faced West Ham and surely weren’t overly concerned about the Irons’ transfer dealings when they were celebrating victory and possible survival.

It was only on the last day of the season, West Ham managed to escape. A Tevez-inspired side won three more games on the spin to put their survival in their own hands, but it was perhaps the most fearsome Premier League trip that awaited them – an away fixture at Old Trafford.

That was the game which really announced to English football that Tevez was more than just a good player – he was a talismanic player and a man for the big occasion. A man who could take on the biggest and the best and win – something that, for such a small, but hard-working player was the backbone to his game.

That graft is actually shown in the goal he scored to win the game for West Ham that day – his final appearance in a Hammers shirt.

After Tevez had brought the ball down on his chest and held off challenges from two Manchester United players, the Argentine played a quick one-two with his strike partner Bobby Zamora. But it was Tevez’s quick-wittedness and his low-centre of gravity that made the goal – he was then able to react to a deflection off the final United defender before slotting an impressively cool finish below the onrushing Edwin Van der Sar.

It was a goal that launched a thousand protests, from Sheffield United, who were eventually relegated after defeat to Wigan – and would have been down even if Tevez hadn’t scored – but from others around the footballing world, too.

Just how would West Ham United have managed to persuade two promising Argentinian talents to join their club if it weren’t for the fact that their representatives in a murky world of third-party ownership, Kia Joorabchian, had wanted to buy the East Londoners?

This week, though, as West Ham travel to Old Trafford once again, they’ll do so as a much different club and in a much different place. A player of Tevez’s ability wouldn’t look out of place at the modern club and their iconic new stadium, and with former United striker Hernandez, the Hammers might just have a striker who can score the sort of important goals that Tevez did in his short time at the club.

The summer 2017 transfer window wasn’t quite like any other; in fact, it was pretty darn ridiculous even by recent standards. The Premier League splashed out an incredible £1.4billion, a 23% increase from the year previous, as price-tags for even the most average of players seemed to double from the same point twelve months prior.

Whether any of that will prove to be good value for money remains to be seen. Throughout the Premier League’s 25-year history, we’ve seen countless stars struggle to deliver after arriving amid incredible fanfare, just as we’ve seen bargain signings unexpectedly establish themselves as the division’s top talents.

In truth, we won’t know if it was money well spent this summer for a good few years. But, Tottenham fans, based on current evidence, who do you view as the signing of the summer? Below is a list of 35 candidates to choose from – get involved by giving each one a thumbs up or thumbs down!

Tottenham Hotspur returned to winning ways in style on Saturday with an exceptional 3-0 victory away to Everton at Goodison Park.

After losing to Chelsea and drawing with Burnley before the international break, fans were becoming a little worried with the performances of Mauricio Pochettino’s men but they finally reached their potential with a demolition of the Toffees.

After a dry August, Harry Kane was the hero of the day, scoring a double and bringing his career goal tally for Spurs over the 100 mark. Christian Eriksen also netted on the day to send the away supporters home delighted.

While that duo will grab the headlines, Spurs fans have been paying special mention to their unsung hero of the match, Ben Davies. The Welshman put in a storming performance on the left flank, even assisting Kane’s second goal of the afternoon.

In Danny Rose’s absence, Davies is stepping up to the mark and if he keeps this up, Rose could find it tough to get back into Pochettino’s starting eleven.

Supporters took to Twitter to share their thoughts on Davies’ performance…

Axel Tuanzebe made five first-team appearances for Manchester United in the latter stages of last season as Jose Mourinho rotated his squad ahead of the Europa League final.

The 19-year-old was used at right-back and in central midfield during his spell in the first team, and many believed that the teenager would be seriously knocking on the door in the early weeks of the 2017-18 campaign.

Tuanzebe has not made a single appearance for United in any competition this season, however, which makes it even stranger that Mourinho did not decide to send the defender on loan during the summer transfer window.

Watching Tuanzebe at Under-23 level, it is not too difficult to see that the Englishman is now above that standard, and he looks ready to play first-team football on a regular basis.

On Wednesday, the teenager gave an interview to United’s official television channel where he claimed that he had matured as a person and as a footballer over the last few months.

It is safe to say that Tuanzebe has already shown enough of his ability to the United supporters, and many have called for Mourinho to give him minutes in the coming months.