Tuesday's Paper Talk: Latest football gossip and transfer rumours including Lallana, Havertz, Rodriguez and Koulibaly

DAILY MAIL

• Chelsea will attempt another raid on the Bundesliga with a move for Bayer Leverkusen starlet Kai Havertz.
• Adam Lallana is poised to agree a short-term deal with Liverpool that will enable him to stay at Anfield for their title coronation.
• Premier League clubs will try to block sight lines into their grounds to discourage fans from gathering outside stadiums when top-flight action resumes.
• Premier League clubs have started spying on each other - amid suspicions some are stretching the rules around training-ground protocols to gain a competitive edge.
• The delayed £300m takeover of Newcastle United does not include any allowance for relegation, given that the Saudi-led consortium are expected to be in control long before the season's resumption.

THE SUN

• Manchester United have been sounded out over a cut-price deal for long-term target James Rodriguez.
• Charlton chief Tahnoon Nimer has handed over the Addicks to a new regime put together by club lawyer Chris Farnell.
• Manchester United are interested in signing 23-year-old Dutch midfielder Donny van de Beek, according to his current club Ajax.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

• The American entrepreneur Henry Mauriss is preparing to make a formal offer to buy Newcastle United if the purchase of the club by a Saudi Arabian-led consortium is not completed.
• Campaigners have branded football's application of the Rooney Rule - which requires black and ethnic candidates to be interviewed for coaching posts - as "not fit for purpose".
• A number of Gallagher Premiership sides are asking fans to help them through rugby's financial crisis by not seeking refunds for their unused tickets for the 2019-20 season.
• The Champions League knockout stages are likely to be concluded in a mini "World Cup-style" tournament in Lisbon over the space of a fortnight in August.

THE GUARDIAN

• Structural racism in British sport is so deep and pervasive that it amounts to a kind of apartheid and needs a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission to tackle it, a Sport England board member has said.

THE INDEPENDENT

• After a season on loan with Arsenal, Spanish midfielder Dani Ceballos says he is open to a permanent move away from Real Madrid.
• The Champions League and Europa League knockout stages are set to conclude in Lisbon over the space of two weeks in August.

DAILY MIRROR

• The Saudi-backed takeover of Newcastle United has been hit by a fresh political blow.
• Kalidou Koulibaly has been told to snub Manchester United for their Premier League rivals, Liverpool or Chelsea, this summer.

DAILY RECORD

• Celtic face a fight with a top English Premier League club to land Fraser Forster this summer.
• Motherwell and Kilmarnock are both keen to land goalkeeper Scott Fox, who is a free agent after leaving Partick Thistle.

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