Transfer Gossip: Gareth Bale 'favours' Manchester United transfer while Chelsea 'join the race' to sign Spurs defender

Kyle Walker has turned out to be a more complex character than you thought he was a few weeks ago.

Back then he was just an accomplished right-back playing football without any fuss. But he’s since
had a fight (allegedly) with his manager, got dropped, had his head turned (allegedly) by other clubs and now – to top it all off – displayed hitherto unseen Adobe Premiere skills by directing and producing a White Hart Lane tribute video.
The heartfelt clip – featuring archive photos, evocative music and solemn narration by Walker himself – was posted on the player’s social media accounts yesterday evening. It was lovely, but is it proof of his commitment to Tottenham or just a last-ditch attempt to prevent the club’s fans from hating him forever when he ultimately leaves for Chelsea?

Possibly the latter, according to the Mirror, which reports that the Blues have entered the race to sign Walker this summer and are prepared to double his £70,000-a-week wages.
The only other team in the race is Manchester City, whose proposed £40m move for the player could gather pace now that the other Spurs full-back they wanted to buy, Danny Rose, is out injured.
But it’s not quite clear what this race involves exactly, because the Mirror simultaneously admits that “neither Chelsea or City have made any approach to Tottenham” for Walker. They are “ready to”, though, whatever that means.

A former Tottenham full-back who is no longer even a full-back, Gareth Bale, could also be on the move – but it won’t be to Chelsea.

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale

The Sun reports that the Welshman would “prefer to join Manchester United” rather than the Blues “if Real Madrid decide to sell him”. Which, let’s be honest, they probably won’t.
Having said that, Bale’s place in the Real attack could be threatened if the Star is right in predicting that Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe is set to move to the Bernabeu. Real president Florentino Perez has reportedly “put aside £86m to sign the teenager”, as if he had to purposefully separate it from his other money in case he accidentally spent it all on new shoes.
In centre-back news, Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has made Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk his number one target (Independent), Man Utd will re-sign Michael Keane from Burnley for £25m (Mail), Swansea are trying to snare John Terry (Express) and Leicester will flog their captain Wes Morgan to Newcastle and replace him with Hull’s Harry Maguire (Mirror).
And in-non-centre-back news, Arsenal are prepared to offer Chelsea’s on-loan striker Tammy Abraham first team football (Sun), Manuel Lanzini is not interested in leaving West Ham despite alleged from Everton and Liverpool (Metro) and Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been offered more than £800,000 a week to move to the Chinese Super League (France Football). Which is a bit insulting – they even offered Wayne Rooney more than that.

Rebecca Shapiro,The Huffington Post 3 hours ago

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) appeared on CNN Tuesday night for a town hall discussion that largely focused on President Donald Trump’s latest alleged scandal.
Just one week after Trump fired James Comey, The New York Times reported the now-ousted FBI director had detailed in a memo that the president asked him to cease investigating Michael Flynn.  Flynn resigned in February amid reports that the former national security adviser discussed sanctions against Russia with a Russian diplomat before Trump was sworn into office.
The first question at CNN’s town hall asked if Kasich and Sanders believed there was “sufficient grounds for impeachment” and if either politician would support such an effort.
“I don’t think we’re there,” Kasich said. It’s crucial to find out “exactly what happened” about everything from Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election to the Trump administration’s ties to the Kremlin, he added.
Sanders agreed, saying that officials right now are trying to determine if there was collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

“I don’t think you want to make that leap to impeachment until you follow a path that leads us there,” Sanders said. “Maybe it will maybe it won’t. But I’m not there at this point.”