Following that midweek 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, it was back to the bread and butter of La Liga for Barcelona on Sunday. If the Camp Nou faithful were expecting a reaction from their team, they were left disappointed. A season low crowd of just over 63,000 watched their team labour to a 2-1 win over Leganés, who are currently enjoying their first ever season in the top flight and sit just one place above the relegation zone. On an evening when some sections of the crowd booed Barça’s manager Luis Enrique, Lionel Messi looked so fed up he didn’t even celebrate the last-gasp penalty kick he converted to help his side scrape a 2-1 victory.

Barcelona’s current woes could have reverberations on the Premier League: the Mirror reports that Manchester City are teeing up a £100m bid to bring Messi to the Premier League and reunite him with his former manager Pep Guardiola. With Luis Enrique’s days in charge looking numbered, Tottenham Hotspur supporters will be upset by press reports saying the Spanish club have identified Mauricio Pochettino as the Spaniard’s successor despite his longtime association with their city rivals Espanyol. The 46-year-old Argentinian is contracted to Tottenham until 2021, but wouldn’t be human if he wasn’t tempted by the offer of a spell in the Camp Nou hot-seat.

Monaco left-back Benjamin Mendy is also wanted by Manchester City, to fill the Gaël Clichy-shaped hole likely to be left in Guardiola’s squad when the French veteran’s contract expires this summer. City also remain interested in Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who is already back in training despite fears the knee injury he sustained in his side’s Boxing Day defeat at the hands of Manchester United would keep him out for the season.

Fresh from their clinical evisceration of Fulham, Spurs are being linked with Kévin Gameiro. The 29-year-old Atlético Madrid striker responded to reports that his club might be ready to offload him by coming off the bench to score a hat-trick in just four minutes and 45 seconds against Sporting Gijón on Saturday. It was his most significant contribution to the Atlético cause since signing for the Spanish club from Sevilla last summer. Having taken almost an hour to score his hat-trick against Fulham, Harry Kane might need to up his game.

With 27 goals in 41 games for Celtic to his name since his move from Fulham last summer, Moussa Dembélé has got antennae twitching all over Europe and could move from one team of domestic flat-track bullies to another if rumours of Bayern Munich’s interest in putting him on the pay-roll are true. Reports in Scotland say the Bundesliga side are ready to boost the Celtic coffers to the tune of £30m in exchange for the 20-year-old French striker.

Moussa Dembélé: Bayern-bound? Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

Liverpool are ready to riff on Leicester City’s current Premier League pain by relieving them of their promising young defender Ben Chillwell, who endured a torrid time of it at the Den on Saturday. According to Millwall striker Steve Morison, Chilwell was so intimidated by the “verbals” of Lions fans during Leicester’s defeat by the League One side that he feigned a hand injury so he could stop taking throw-ins. “I’m not being funny,” said Morison. “He said his fingers hurt him – come on, we’re playing a game of football.” Liverpool are also being linked with a “summer swoop” for Mario Götze, who has failed to impress at Borussia Dortmund since moving back there after his three-year spell at Bayern Munich.

Manchester United want Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and will pay Arsenal £30m to bring the midfielder to Old Trafford. In another winter of discontent for Arsenal fans, the Ox has struggled to nail down an automatic starting place and is understood to be on José Mourinho’s summer shopping list. In other news relating to comings and goings at Old Trafford, the Telegraph claim United might be willing to sell Wayne Rooney before the end of the month if a team from the country’s Super League make a suitably generous offer for the striker before their transfer deadline on 28 February. Whether or not Wayne would be amenable to such a move remains to be seen.