Bryan Robson thinks Gareth Bale would be an ideal signing for Manchester United in the wake of Angel Di Maria's impending departure to Paris St Germain. Real Madrid have reportedly already turned down two bids in excess of £100million from the Old Trafford club.

One deal that the Red Devils are believed to be close to completing is their £20million move for Barcelona winger Pedro. Louis Van Gaal has moved to reassure the Spaniard that he would form part of a front three in his side alongside Wayne Rooney and Memphis Depay, after he had become frustrated at his lack of first team chances behind Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez at the Camp Nou.

Meanwhile, Rafa Benitez has said that Arsenal target Karim Benzema is going nowhere. He said: “I think Benzema is going to stay with us. I'm very happy with him."

Wolfsburg have slapped a valuation of £50million on former Chelsea player and Manchester City target Kevin De Bruyne.

At home, Hibernian are said to be getting increasingly exasperated with Rangers after they kicked out a third bid of £280,000 for star player Scott Allan.

Celtic manager Ronny Deila also gave short shrift to a report of a £7million bid from Southampton for Virgil Van Dijk. He said: “There has been nothing we would consider at all. He is going to stay here through qualification as I have said all the time. When £7m was mentioned, I said we would not consider it. That is not even close. There has been nothing yet (in terms of a bid).

Hull City have launched a bid to bring Scotland star Shaun Maloney's brief MLS adventure to an end. The playmaker has been dogged by injury since his move to Chicago Fire, but he has impressed for Scotland in the Euro 2016 qualifiers.

Dundee United are hopeful that highly-rated youngster John Souttar will join Scott Fraser in committing his future to the club, as they made progress in talks to extend his deal that expires next May.