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‘Concrete steps’ made for Roberto De Zerbi today – Club hope to reach agreement for Brighton manager

It’s no secret that Bayern Munich have been having some difficulty appointing their new manager, as options like Xabi Alonso and Ralf Rangnick aren’t keen on taking the job.

Now according to reports fresh from the Italian media, the Bundesliga giants have set their eyes on the boss of Brighton & Hove Albion.

TuttoMercatoWeb today writes that Bayern Munich are moving forward to sign Roberto De Zerbi, having ‘intensified contacts’ to bring him to Germany.

It’s said those ‘concrete steps’ took place on Thursday, with some contact made with the Brighton coach’s entourage.

 

According to the report, there will be further work for a ‘definitive agreement’ with the manager in the coming days.

Now despite TuttoMercatoWeb’s strong claims, it must be pointed that not all the Italian media has the same information. Daniele Longo, who’s a journalist for Calcio Mercato, writes on Twitter that De Zerbi is a ‘cold track’ for Bayern Munich.

The German media is still to say something about that chase as well, so it’s just TMW out there alone at this point.

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News from the bet365 Stadium as Tyrese Campbell, Enda Stevens and Jordan Thompson are among the Stoke City players heading towards the end of their contracts

Steven Schumacher will sit down with Stoke City’s out-of-contract players next week to discuss potential new deals or farewells.

Stoke will sign off the season with a home match against Bristol City tomorrow (12.30pm) and Enda Stevens, Jordan Thompson and Tyrese Campbell are likely to start, along with four of the five loan players who are scheduled to then return to their parents clubs.

There are nine senior players coming to the end of their contracts in all but Ciaran Clark and Wesley have barely featured, particularly under Schumacher, on their one-year deals, Frank Fielding has been a training goalkeeper, Blondy Nna Noukeu hasn’t been able to make a first team breakthrough and Tom Edwards and D’Margio Wright-Phillips have been out on loan.