Southampton

Liverpool have today confirmed the signing of 21-year-old centre-back Oludare Olufunwa from Premier League club Southampton following a trial. He will play for the under-21s for the 2022-23 season.

The Premier League returned this weekend for the 124th season of top-flight football and both Darwin Nunez and Erling Haaland scored on their league debuts for Liverpool and Manchester City respectively.

Callum Hudson-Odoi could now leave Chelsea in the coming days, as he searches for regular first-team football.

The 25-year-old is in contention amongst other fullbacks with the Blues looking desperate to bring in defensive reinforcement for the new season.

Chelsea are broadening their search for a defender this summer and the latest name to make the rumour mill is Southampton's Kyle Walker-Peters.

Chelsea have been working the transfer market for multiple starting players since the window opened, but they are also about to secure their third youngster of the summer.

Liam Delap is only 19-years-old yet has already made six senior appearances for Manchester City at striker and has got one goal for the club which has led to several clubs wanting to acquire his services this summer.

The 19-year-old, who is the son of former professional footballer and Stoke City icon Rory Delap, has played for the Manchester City senior side on six occasions has been the subject of strong interest from Southampton however Paul Robinson believes he should continue his development at the Premier League Champions.

Southampton are battling Bayer Leverkusen for the signing of Manchester City's Samuel Edozie. Edozie was set to join Bayer Leverkusen for a £5million fee, but as Fabrizio Romano reported yesterday, Southampton are looking to hijack the deal on late notice.

Southampton have had a very efficient summer signing many players of a younger age attempting to galvanise their current squad ahead of the new season and they were linked with another youthful prodigy in Samuel Edozie.

Southampton are now attempting to hijack Samuel Edozie's transfer to Bayer Leverkusen by entering the race to sign the player. Bayer Leverkusen had been favourites to sign the player, but Southampton have now entered the race and are expected to try until the end for the player.

Southampton are reportedly preparing a new £23million pound bid for Manchester City striker Liam Delap, after they had a £16million pound bid rejected earlier today. Manchester City are currently not willing to allow Delap to leave on a permanent deal, but the player is Southampton's number one target according to Fabrizio Romano.

Manchester City have rejected a bid worth £16million for striker Liam Delap. Southampton want Delap on a permanent deal, but City are not yet ready to part with the player. The Blue's would prefer any deal seeing Delap leave the club this summer would be a loan deal. Southampton have the player as a main target.

Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl has praised Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp ahead of the two sides Premier League meeting at St Mary's on Tuesday night.

Chelsea have announced that the Premier League's UK live broadcast selections for the first two match rounds will not include Chelsea, therefore their games remain 3pm kick-off times.