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Chelsea are ready to offer £25m plus full-back Jose Bosingwa to land Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery. (Sunday Express)

Notts County director of football Sven-Goran Eriksson is hoping to persuade Pavel Nedved and Luis Figo to come out of retirement and join the League Two side. The former England boss is also hoping to sign Inter Milan's Patrick Vieira. Mail on Sunday

Hull will smash their transfer record with a £12m swoop for Real Madrid forward Alvaro Negredo - their previous record was the £5m they spent on Jimmy Bullard. News of the World

Tottenham are lining up a £10m bid for Celtic midfielder Scott Brown. (News of the World)

Arsenal are set to spend £6m on Real Madrid midfielder Rafael van der Vaart. Mail on Sunday

Manchester City want to sign Tottenham's David Bentley, but they face competition from Everton - both clubs are ready to pay £9m for the winger. (Sunday Express)

City are also prepared to pay £5m to sign Sporting Lisbon's 15-year-old midfielder Tobias Figueredo, who is yet to make his debut for the Portuguese side.News of the World

Aston Villa are weighing up a £7m move for Blackburn defender Stephen Warnock.Mail on Sunday

West Ham defender Matthew Upson has admitted he might have to be sold to ease the club's financial uncertainty. The £10m-rated centre-back has been linked with Manchester City. (News of the World)

If the Hamnmers sell Upson it will pave the way for them to move for Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh. News of the World

West Ham are also in talks to sign Barcelona striker Eidur Gudjohnsen. (The Observer)

Liverpool striker Andriy Voronin is set to join Hertha Berlin in a £3m deal. News of the World

Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko is wanted by Turkish side Fenerbahce on loan.News of the World

Portsmouth have been asked by Lens to give bank guarantees showing they can stump up £4m to sign forward Aruna Dindane. Monaco, Hull, Stoke and Blackburn also want the striker. News of the World

Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano will receive a substantial wage increase after having his move to Barcelona blocked. (Sunday Express)

Fulham have offered their defender Brede Hangeland wages of £50,000 a week to try to prevent him leaving - with Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Everton and Aston Villa all waiting to pounce. (News of the World)

But the Gunners are closing in on a £12m deal for Hangeland, with Fulham eyeing up Hull's Michael Turner or Newcastle's Steven Taylor as a replacement. (Sunday Mirror)

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas is likely to sign for Barcelona next summer when the Spanish giants hold elections for a new president. (News of the World)

Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola has ruled out singing Fabregas this season, saying the Spanish international will spend another year with the Gunners. (The Observer)

Portsmouth midfielder Niko Kranjcar insists he will leave the club at the end of the season - if he is not sold before that. (Sunday Express)

Newcastle are set to offload Fabricio Coloccini to Palermo, while Andy Caroll is wanted by Wolves and West Ham, Jonas Gutierrez is set to leave for a Greek club, and Steven Taylor and keeper Tim Krul are also on their way out. (News of the World)

The Magpies are hoping Real Zaragoza will harden their interest in central defender Coloccini, who is available for £4m. (Sunday Express)

Everton are considering making a new move for Newcastle defender Steven Taylor after having a £4m bid rejected. (Sunday Express)

OTHER GOSSIP
Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has accused Tottenham of tapping up Peter Crouch. Storrie is angry that Pompey were forced to accept a reduced fee of £9m after Crouch rejected moves to Fulham and Sunderland, who were willing to pay in excess of £10m. News of the World

Former Sheffield United duo Craig Short and Booby Davison have emerged as dark horses for the vacant manager's job at Norwich. (Sunday Express)

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes gamesmanship and play-acting are "killing football".
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Manchester City new-boy Kolo Toure impressed manager Mark Hughes by insisting on training at 2000 BST on the night he signed from Arsenal. the defender said he did not want to miss two training days in succession. (Sunday Express)

Good old Svenny . . . (both of you)

Ha ha, only just noticed the automatic ***** thing, cool feature apart from when you are refering to another team other than the scum

I find it funny how Fergiescum can say play acting will ruin football, what did el gimpo do for the Scum?

That WAG could be an Angelina Jolie double

craigmcfc wrote:That WAG could be an Angelina Jolie double

Was going to post exactly the same thing Craig!

Shevchenko still a Chelsea player? strange.

If there's anything in the Bentley rumour I wonder if we'll come to an "agreement " like we did with Twitchy over Bellamy.

Additional testicles - Holland star Rafael van der Vaart sparks Premier League scrap as FIFPro suggest he can leave Real Madrid for nothing

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His wife is continuing treatment for breast cancer, complicating any move, as he needs to be near a specialist centre. Whilst I wouldn't like to use that as a bargaining chip, I hope he finds a club in the north west, whether it be us or most of the others, as he won't find better treatment anywhere.

Just as a test of the automatic censoring - united. That is a brilliant addition. Can you now add it to all their players too?

branny wrote:If there's anything in the Bentley rumour I wonder if we'll come to an "agreement " like we did with Twitchy over Bellamy.

Was thinking that, sell us Lescott and we'll walk away from Bentley. Personally I hope there's nothing in it as I don't see how he would fit into our squad. Not as good as SWP and would be in the way of Weiss breaking through

Having had their offer turned down, shouldn't Everton now just walk away?

john68 wrote:Having had their offer turned down, shouldn't Everton now just walk away?

Good point mate.

It seems Mr Moyes is a bit of a hypocrite!