Saturday's football gossip

[khay 10]

TRANSFER RUMOURS

 

The race to sign Charlton striker Darren Bent is on, but Chelsea have been put off by the Addicks' £18m asking price. (Sun)

 

 

West Ham are also in the frame but the player would prefer to go to Tottenham, who are prepared to offer Calum Davenport plus cash. (Daily Express)

 

 

Chelsea are considering a shock move for Aston Villa striker Milan Baros. (Various)

 

 

Charlton will win the race to sign Arsenal's Anthony Stokes. (Daily Star)

 

 

Tottenham are favourites to sign Watford winger Ashley Young - but the deal will not involve Wayne Routledge going the other way. (Daily Mirror)

 

 

Everton are the latest club to show an interest in Young. (Daily Express)

 

 

West Ham will turn their attentions to Young if their bid for Chelsea's Shaun Wright-Phillips fails. (Independent)

 

 

Spurs have joined Aston Villa and the Hammers in the chase for Wright-Phillips but their £5m bid for West Brom's Curtis Davies failed. (Sun)

 

 

Chelsea will make cut-price bids for Blackburn's Lucas Neill and Bolton's Tal ben Haim. (Daily Mirror)

 

 

Manchester United are confident of wrapping up the £17m signing of Bayern Munich's Owen Hargreaves in the next couple of days. (Daily Mirror)

 

 

Wigan are still persevering with a bid to sign Alan Smith on loan even though the Manchester United striker is determined to stay. (Daily Mail)

 

 

Bolton want to sign Swiss utility player Blerim Dzemaili. (Daily Mail)

 

 

Blackburn are poised to offer midfielder David Bentley a new deal worth £1.2m a year. (Daily Express)

 

 

West Ham captain Nigel Reo-Coker will leave the club in the next week - with Tottenham and Bolton ready to pounce. (Daily Mirror)

 

 

Charlton want former Chelsea midfielder Alexei Smertin to replace him and have made bids for Colchester's Greg Halford and West Brom's Nigel Quashie. (Times)

 

 

But West Ham could hijack the Addicks' move for Smertin. (Independent)

 

 

Aston Villa are poised to sign Manchester United defender Phil Bardsley on loan. (Times)

 

 

Birmingham are on the verge of signing on-loan Arsenal midfielder Sebastian Larsson for £500,000. (Independent)

 

 

Walter Smith's first act as Rangers director of football will be to sell misfiring striker Filip Sebo for £1.8m. (Daily Record)

 

 

Celtic have made an official bid for Hibs duo Kevin Thomson and Scott Brown. (Daily Record)

 

 

 

 

OTHER GOSSIP The Scottish FA want Walter Smith to carry on as the national boss even if he takes the director of football post at Rangers. (Daily Record)

 

 

 

AND FINALLY... Newcastle defender Titus Bramble has his kit sponsored by 'Mr Long, Your Local Grocer'. (Daily Mirror)

 

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Who we signing then?

[Bombadil 0]

We've only just started to look at a few players, man. Roeder needs another couple of weeks to decide if he's interested in Kuyt or if he wants to bid £1m for Klose, like he wanted to do in the summer.

[TheInspiration 1]

Too busy managing the Toon to spend the next six weekends watching Kuyt play for Liverpool.

[The Fish 11112]

I'm not expecting any genuine movement until the last week or so.

[Jimbo 175]

I'm not expecting any genuine movement until the last week or so.

 

 

Prunes or all bran should sort things out tbh.

[The Fish 11112]

cheers I was getting worried for a bit there.

 

shitting myself, one might say