Barcelona will again attempt to sign Eric Garcia from Manchester City.

Ronald Koeman and sporting director Ramon Planes both believe Barcelona needs another center back. 

Talks between Barcelona and City last summer continued through the final day of the window. 

Garcia is out of contract with City at the end of the season.

"He wants to leave but maybe we can seduce him to extend his contract with us," Pep Guardiola said last week.

Pep Guardiola's contract with Manchester City expires next summer and Barcelona's presidential frontrunner, Victor Font, has declared his intention of bringing him back to the club.

But Guardiola has said he wants to extend his stay at Manchester City rather than return to Barcelona.

"I'm incredibly happy here," Guardiola said. "I'm delighted to be happy here and hopefully I can do a good job here this season to stay longer."

Guardiola nearly reunited with Lionel Messi this summer with Manchester City.

LA Galaxy has fired Guillermo Barros Schelotto as manager.

The former Boca Juniors coach was hired in January 2019 and guided the club to the semifinals of the Western Conference last season, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic netting 31 goals during the campaign.

"Based on results, we have decided to go in a different direction," Galaxy general manager Dennis te Kloese said in a statement. "The LA Galaxy is a club that is built on winning on the field and being representative of the championship mentality and pedigree that you expect in Los Angeles. As a club, we have a collective responsibility and we all must share the blame for the club's current standing. I take responsibility for the poor results and believe that we can find the right way forward for this team and our club."

Josep Maria Bartomeu has stepped down as president of Barcelona, as did the rest of the board of directors.

An election will be scheduled within the next 90 days to appoint a new president.

"It's a thought-out, serene, informed decision" to resign, Bartomeu said in a televised speech.

More than 20,000 supporters signed a petition this month for him to be removed as president after growing increasingly upset with his management of the club.

Bartomeu lost the support of Lionel Messi, Gerard Pique and several other players. 

Pep Guardiola suggested Manchester City couldn't afford to buy a striker in the summer as both Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus have been ruled of Tuesday's match against Marseille. 

"Maybe yeah we considered it [buying a striker], we thought about it, another maybe type of striker but we could not so I think the club do what they can," said Guardiola.

"It's not a club that wants revenues at the end of the year, it's what they want and what's best for the team.

"If you decide to buy a striker, it has to be a striker in the league of Gabriel and Sergio but we cannot afford it. That is the reality.

"I'm not saying the club didn't want to do it, not just in terms of strikers but in every position, but they wanted to make as strong a team as possible to make more games and better. But we thought 'OK, Sergio is back and we didn't expect Gabriel to be injured.' Sometimes it happens."

Several MLS clubs are reportedly interested in making a move for Jack Wilshere.

The 28-year-old recently terminated his contract with West Ham.

Wilshere is also ready to make a move to MLS.

Wilshere has played just 16 matches in the past two seasons in the Premier League. 

Real Madrid are targeting either Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland next summer.

Florentino Perez prefers Mbappe, who could fetch a transfer fee up to €200 million. Mbappe would prefer a move to Real Madrid over Barcelona.

Haaland has a €75 million release clause with Borussia Dortmund.

Mesut Ozil may have already played his final match for Arsenal after he was left out of the club's 25-man Premier League squad.

Ozil hasn't played a single minute for Arsenal since March 7th and was not registered for the Europa League.

The only other competition the Gunners will play in before Christmas is the EFL Cup and the rules dictate "a registered player is one who would be registered and eligible to participate in a Premier League match" or is an under-21 player.

Brenden Aaronson has been transferred from the Philadelphia Union to FC Salzburg for an initial fee of $6 million with an additional $3 million if certain incentives are met.

The deal marks the first time that one the Union's homegrown players has been transferred to a European club, and the fee is the highest for a United States-based homegrown player in MLS history.

Barcelona also was interested in Aaronson.

Union sporting director Ernst Tanner, who prior to coming to Philadelphia spent six years as head of RB Salzburg's academy, said that Salzburg had been tracking Aaronson since the summer of 2019.

Real Madrid are actively monitoring Giovanni Reyna of Borussia Dortmund.

They view Reyna as one of the game's best young players, who would also give Madrid a boost in the United States' market.

Reyna is the 17-year-old son of USMNT legend Claudio Reyna.