Terry Gibson: Last News

Atletico Madrid will resist any temptation to throw Antoine Griezmann back into the line-up against Manchester United, preferring to take a 'risk' with Luis Suarez instead.

Erling Haaland is delaying a decision on his future to buy Barcelona time to raise the £300million required to sign him.Sources close to Haaland’s current club Borussia Dortmund are convinced his preferred destination is the Nou Camp - despite his refusal to confirm that bombshell to the rest of Europe’s elite.Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain are all poised to launch bids for Haaland, whose £68m buy-out clause kicks in at the end of the season.But they are being made to wait as he wants to see if Barcelona, crippled by debts of £670m, can somehow afford him.The total cost of acquiring the prolific marksman is an eye-watering £300m - in transfer, salary and agent fees combined.That was way beyond Barcelona’s reach...until one of the world's biggest banks, Goldman Sachs suddenly arrived on the scene with an offer to bail them out to the tune of a ONE BILLIION pound loan.And, according to long-time La Liga expert Terry Gibson, that means the fallen Spanish giants are definitely contenders in the Haaland equation.The former Man United striker said: “They’ll be in there, 100 per cent! Absolutely.“I was amazed they were able to get the money to buy Ferran Torres from Man City this month.“They will find the money. They always find ways of raising the revenue.

La Liga stars into the Premier League is unlikely to stop with the arrival of Raphael Varane at Manchester United and Bryan Gil at Tottenham.That's the message from top Spanish football expert Terry Gibson as two of his old clubs get active in the summer transfer market.And, according to the ex-Spurs and Man Utd hitman, more Spanish-based players are destined for these shores before the window shuts on August 31.Indeed, he reckons deadline day cannot come soon enough for Real Madrid and Co amid spiralling debts, a La Liga salary cap and, of course, the financial fall-out from COVID-19.The truth is the Spanish elite can no longer compete with the Premier League elite, whether buying the game’s biggest names or trying to hang onto