Saturday's Paper Talk: Football gossip and transfer rumours including Bale, Scott, Brunt, Zahavi and Ferguson

DAILY TELEGRAPH

• Tottenham held talks with Real Madrid over the possibility of re-signing Gareth Bale but there was pessimism over their chances primarily due to Bale's mammoth £600,000-per-week wages.
• Hull agreed a deal worth £1.5m for Motherwell forward James Scott, who the Tigers are eyeing as Jarrod Bowen's replacement, after their £750,000 bid was rejected on Thursday.
• Southampton and England striker Danny Ings was the subject of an approach by Manchester United in January.
• Stoke failed in a late deadline day move for West Brom winger Chris Brunt.
• Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic rejected offers to leave the club and an instead us willing to extend his contract at United.
• Celtic ruled out a move for Tottenham's Victor Wanyama due to the midfielder's excessive wage demands.

DAILY MAIL

• Tottenham failed in a surprise late bid to sign Guangzhou R&F attacker Eran Zahavi, the top scorer in the Chinese Super League, in a desperate attempt to solve their striker crisis.
• West Brom full-back Nathan Ferguson saw his deadline day move to Crystal Palace delayed after his medical, with the clubs still in talks to revive a deal that could end up being finalised in the summer.
• Troy Parrott missed out on a late deadline day loan move away from Tottenham because of Uefa regulations surrounding club-trained players.
• Crystal Palace missed out on two deadline day moves. Forward Jarrod Bowen joined West Ham from Hull while Nathan Ferguson remained at West Brom.
• Manchester United failed to sign Birmingham City young midfielder Jude Bellingham.

DAILY MIRROR

• Jadon Sancho has been warned that there are limits over what Borussia Dortmund will deem to be acceptable conduct, amid growing links with a move to the Premier League.
• Everton struggled to offload Oumar Niasse to another club at the end of the January transfer window.

DAILY STAR

• Barcelona centre-back Samuel Umtiti rejected a move to Arsenal despite a direct request from Gunners boss Mikel Arteta.

THE SUN

• Japanese winger Keisuke Honda signed for Brazilian side Botafogo after his request to have an armoured vehicle was granted as he secured the move.

INDEPENDENT

• Manchester United considered a bid for Norwich and Finland forward Teemu Pukki.

THE TIMES

• Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy travelled to Spain for talks with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez in a bid to bring Wales forward Gareth Bale, 30, back to Spurs.

DAILY RECORD

• Celtic did not open talks with Tottenham over a deadline day move for Victor Wanyama.

SCOTTISH SUN

• Steven Gerrard could have made a deadline day swoop for Livingston's Lyndon Dykes if he failed to bring in Flo Kamberi on loan.

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