🚨 Absolute SCENES as Everton snatch draw with Liverpool, £83m star wants Man United move, HUGE Arsenal blow, and more

Today's round-up, featuring the Merseyside Derby and major Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal transfer news...

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Today’s top stories:

• Don’t miss Charles Watts’ latest column on all things Arsenal!

• Major injury blows for Chelsea and Arsenal

• Man United linked with Portuguese wonderkid

• Plus the Merseyside Derby, stunning Olise goal, and more

Arsenal

• Huge blow for Arsenal as Kai Havertz is set to miss the rest of season with a hamstring injury. It’s yet another injury crisis for Arsenal as Havertz suffered a torn hamstring during the club’s training camp in Dubai, joining Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli as the four forwards currently out injured.

• According to Fabrizio Romano, there have been “no contacts or approaches made by Arsenal with free agents so far following Havertz’s injury. Arteta, determined to find solutions internally while staff keeps waiting for Bukayo Saka and Martinelli back. The investment on new striker will be made in the summer.”

• Arsenal only have themselves to blame for being left with barely any attacking options after the injury to Havertz, according to Charles Watts.

• Johan Bakayoko to Arsenal transfer exclusive - new details have emerged of the Gunners and other clubs being interested in the PSV winger as he eyes a move to the Premier League!

• Could Karim Adeyemi to Arsenal also be a story to watch out for? Charles Watts has had his say on the recent media speculation.

• William Saliba to Real Madrid transfer talk also won’t die down, and Charles Watts believes sorting this out will be a priority for the club’s new sporting director.

• Arsenal are also being linked with one of Spain’s biggest wonderkids, though he’s also already on the radar of Real Madrid and Barcelona! Full story here.

• “I was out PARTYING and slacking in training – I knew I wasn’t going to play anyway!” – which former Arsenal star regrets letting Wenger down?

Barcelona

• Pau Cubarsi is set to formally sign his new contract with Barcelona until June 2030. It was already agreed in June on a verbal basis and can now be officially completed as he turned 18 in January. Three more years for Cubarsi at the Nou Camp.