LIVE Transfer Talk: Barcelona want Ousmane Dembele to stay despite PSG, Premier League interest

15.25 GMT: Bayern Munich defender Dayot Upamecano is back on the radar of Real Madrid, according to Le10 Sport.

Upamecano, 23, left RB Leipzig to join Bayern for €42.5m last summer but has been inconsistent for his new club.

The France international had interest from every top club in Europe before he moved, with Real Madrid one of those keen. And now Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti wants more options at the back.

However, Bild reports that Bayern aren't considering letting him leave just yet.

14.44 GMT: Cesar Azpilicueta has said "it's not the time or the place to talk about my future" amid reports linking the Chelsea captain with a summer move to Barcelona.

Azpilicueta is out of contract at Stamford Bridge this summer -- after a successful decade spent at the Premier League club -- and ESPN has reported that Barca are keen to sign the 32-year-old at the request of coach Xavi.

Chelsea have a contractual option to unilaterally extend the defender's deal, but the situation has been muddied by the sanctions imposed on the club's current owner Roman Abramovich by the U.K. Government.

"It isn't the time or the place to talk about my future. If there's one thing we've learnt in recent months, it's that you have to live day to day and enjoy the moment," Azpilicueta said in a news conference with Spain on Wednesday. "We're in a moment of uncertainty at Chelsea. As players we can train and prepare our best for games. Since the sale of the club was announced we've shown that we can get good results. It's out of our hands."

14.21 GMT: Former Real Madrid manager Bernd Schuster has told ESPN that PSG forward Lionel Messi shouldn't return to Barcelona as he could struggle to replicate his best form at Camp Nou now that he is 34-years-old.

"I don't think as a footballer [Messi should go back to Barca] because he was so great there and everyone is going to remember him like that forever," Schuster, who played for both Barcelona and Real Madrid during his career in the 1980s, said. "What hurts me, and I also experienced this, is when we get older and can no longer provide that show that we provided for so many years, people forget to quickly.

"It hurts when you then see Messi whistled or called things. That hurts me a lot. I would like to avoid those conflicts with a fanbase that has experienced so much glory [with Messi]. I don't think so, I wouldn't do it. I would look for motivation in other places. He still has a couple of good years. I don't like Paris for him. I don't like the team there for Leo."

13.35 GMT: Juventus are looking at Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah as a perfect replacement for Paulo Dybala, claims Gazzetta dello Sport.

Salah, 29, is out of contract in 2023 and has yet to agree new terms. Meanwhile, Juve have revealed that Dybala won't be putting pen to paper on a new deal and will depart for free in the summer.

However, as one of the best players in the world, the Egypt international would still command a fee upwards of the €70m that Juve paid Fiorentina to sign striker Dusan Vlahovic in January.

13.16 GMT: Arsenal defender William Saliba was asked about his future by RMC at the France training camp.

Saliba, 20, has impressed on loan at Marseille, enough to land a first call-up to the senior national team. But after signing for the Gunners for €30m from Saint-Etienne in 2019, he has never played for the club and spent time out on loan with Saint-Etienne and Nice before moving to Marseille last summer.

"I've never hidden that I feel good here [at Marseille]," he said. "I don't know my future, there's two months left, the most important is to qualify for the Champions League and to go as far as possible in the Conference League.

"I think there will be talks afterwards, end of May, beginning of June, with Arsenal and Marseille. We'll decide at that point, but what's certain is that continuing here wouldn't be a bad idea. Quite the contrary. I know the city, my teammates, my manager, but that doesn't only depend on me."

12.58 GMT: Benfica striker Darwin Nunez is on the radar of Arsenal, according to The Express.

Nunez, 22, has 26 goals in 33 games this season and is rated as one of the top young strikers in Europe.

The Uruguay international has seen interest from Newcastle, West Ham and Man United, but Benfica value his services at around €80m which may prevent the Gunners from making a move.

12.00 GMT: Here are the Chelsea ownership front-runners and how they run their American sports teams.

The deadline has passed, and the bids are in. Following an extraordinary month in the history of Chelsea football club, the next owner of Chelsea, succeeding Roman Abramovich, is attached to an offer sitting in the Raine Group's midtown Manhattan offices. (The Raine Group, the New York merchant bank hired by Abramovich to find a buyer, might be holding those offers at the financial advisory firm's London location in Mayfair instead.)

Raine received more than 300 expressions of interest to buy Chelsea. By the time Friday's cut-off for offers passed, sources have suggested that somewhere between 20 and 30 parties formalized that interest by tabling a bid, with several of the most credible offers proposed by U.S. sports owners or consortiums.

Everyone involved with this process has a vested interest in seeing it completed as soon as possible given the circumstances of the sale: Abramovich has been sanctioned by the U.K government and although Chelsea have a licence to continuing paying wages and fulfilling fixtures until the club is sold, their day-to-day operations have been severely affected.

Sources have indicated that Raine Group are expected to identify two or three preferred bids to be put forward to the next stage. Those shortlisted will then be examined by senior figures at Chelsea -- excluding Abramovich -- to select a winner, with the government's Departure of Culture, Media and Sport retaining final sign-off on confirming the club's new owner.

Nothing is certain in a transaction of this size -- the sale will still be the biggest in Premier League history even though Abramovich is unlikely to achieve his £3 billion asking price -- but there are four consortiums generating the most buzz, headed by these names: Todd Boehly, the Ricketts family, Woody Johnson (he's acting alone and has not publicly confirmed his bid) and Sir Martin Broughton.

Apart from being exceedingly wealthy, there is one thing each of these ownership groups has in common: experience owning American teams. So, in an effort to illustrate what Chelsea fans could potentially expect, we've spoken to our sources across America to detail how all of these investors run their teams, from Hollywood to the Big Apple.

11.22 GMT: Leeds winger Raphinha has rejected a new contract extension to double his salary, amid interest from Barcelona, according to UOL.

Raphinha, 25, has a release clause of €70m in his current deal, which expires in 2024. But the Brazil international reportedly wants the clause removed if he is to pen new terms.

Barcelona have been linked with a move for the winger as speculation over Ousmane Dembele's future continues. Though they would still have to pay a hefty transfer fee to land Raphinha this summer and are more focused on Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland.

10.45 GMT: Are Barcelona better off without Lionel Messi in the side?