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Manchester United will turn their attentions to Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Tores, Sporting Lisbon winger Nani and Southampton defender Gareth Bale after capturing Owen Hargreaves. (Daily Mirror)

 

Chelsea have entered the bidding to land West Ham striker Carlos Tevez, although the Blues will face competition from Real Madrid. (The Independent)

 

Manchester City defender Sylvain Distin will join Portsmouth this week after rejecting a return to Newcastle. (Various)

 

Everton will make a £4m bid for Sheffield United captain Phil Jagielka but face a battle with Wigan to land the midfielder. (Daily Mirror)

 

Chelsea are set to win a battle with Bolton to sign 15-year-old Oldham striker Danny Philliskirk. (Daily Mirror)

 

Ipswich have had a £350,000 bid for Blackburn striker Francis Jeffers rejected. (Various)

 

Coventry hope to sign American goalkeeper Kenneth Kronholm from Dusseldorf. (Daily Mirror, Daily Mail)

 

Charlton are preparing a £2m swoop for Crewe striker Luke Varney. (Daily Mirror)

 

Juventus want Liverpool pair Xabi Alonso and Momo Sissoko and Newcastle forward Obafemi Martins after returning to Serie A. (The Independent)

 

Middlesbrough are in the hunt for Aberdeen skipper Russell Anderson. (Daily Record)

 

Newcastle, Bolton and Manchester City are keen on Liverpool defender Sami Hyypia. (Daily Mail)

 

 

OTHER GOSSIP

 

 

Captain Steven Gerrard and defender Jamie Carragher have agreed new five-year deals with the club. (Daily Mirror)

 

Gerrard will pocket an annual salary of £6m after signing the new deal, which is for three, four or five years depending on which paper you believe. (Various)

 

Chelsea captain John Terry has urged the club to sort out his future now. (The Sun)

 

Manager Jose Mourinho has been told by the board that Chelsea's season - in which the club won the FA Cup and Carling Cup - was not good enough. (Various)

 

Edwin Van der Sar will lose his status as Manchester United's first-choice goalkeeper to Ben Foster next season after being blamed for Didier Drogba's winner for Chelsea in the FA Cup final. (Daily Mirror)

 

Manchester City are expected to name former Chelsea boss Claudio Ranieri, who took charge of Parma in February, as their new manager within the next fortnight. (Daily Mirror)

 

Sam Allardyce will face a legal battle if he tries to take any Bolton backroom staff to Newcastle. (Daily Mirror)

 

Celtic boss Gordon Strachan hinted that he would be axing Danish midfielder Thomas Gravesen from their Scottish Cup final squad. (Daily Record)

 

AND FINALLY

 

Chelsea's stars enjoyed a £25,000 all-night bender at Frankie Dettori's Knightsbridge restaurant after the FA Cup final win. (Daily Star)

 

Left-back Ashley Cole was still hungry after the bash so he had a McChicken Sandwich in his cab.

 

A record-breaking 125,000 programmes were sold at the FA Cup final - netting the Football Association over £1m. (Daily Mail)

 

 

Sam is on holiday

Edited May 21, 2007 by Scottish Mag

[Ken 119]

Just to add to the gossip page here;

Mark Viduka will either re-sign with Middlesbrough or join his Aussie team mate Lucus Neill at West Ham. Despite Anal Oliver's assertions the other day that Viduka wants to come to Newcastle, he has been patiently waiting to see if West Ham avoided relegation and now it'll be either them or to stay with the Smoggies.

Damn shame. He'd be an excellent pickup on a free transfer...

[Alan Shearer Is God 0]

Id be quite pleased if we managed to get Hyypia in.

 

Not got the pace anymore (dont really think he had any to start with!) but he still has the brain and would bring Taylor on loads.

[Anthony nufc 0]

 

 

 

 

Juventus want Liverpool pair Xabi Alonso and Momo Sissoko and Newcastle forward Obafemi Martins after returning to Serie A. (The Independent)

 

 

 

 

Do you think we could get boumsong back with the lack of our central defenders.

 

On a serious note do you think they would actually get any of those players apart from maybe sissoko?

[sammynb 3355]

On a serious note do you think they would actually get any of those players apart from maybe sissoko?

You're fucking joking right?

This is juventus, going to be back in serie A next season currently leading serie B by 8 points although they have had 9 points deducted, team includes Buffon, Del Piero, Nedved, won the scudetto more than any other team in the history of calcio, juventus?

Yeah, why would anyone want to play for them???

Edited May 21, 2007 by sammynb

[Anthony nufc 0]

On a serious note do you think they would actually get any of those players apart from maybe sissoko?

You're fucking joking right?

This is juventus, going to be back in serie A next season currently leading serie B by 8 points although they have had 9 points deducted, team includes Buffon, Del Piero, Nedved, won the scudetto more than any other team in the history of calcio, juventus?

Yeah, why would anyone want to play for them???

 

You missed my point slightly Liverpool would need alot of money swung their way to sell either of them and i couldn't see us selling Oba after a year of purchasing him.

 

Juventus are too dodgey i understand players going their but they could always end up dropping down because of their ways.

[sammynb 3355]

On a serious note do you think they would actually get any of those players apart from maybe sissoko?

You're fucking joking right?

This is juventus, going to be back in serie A next season currently leading serie B by 8 points although they have had 9 points deducted, team includes Buffon, Del Piero, Nedved, won the scudetto more than any other team in the history of calcio, juventus?

Yeah, why would anyone want to play for them???

 

You missed my point slightly Liverpool would need alot of money swung their way to sell either of them and i couldn't see us selling Oba after a year of purchasing him.

 

Juventus are too dodgey i understand players going their but they could always end up dropping down because of their ways.

I highly doubt Juventus will ever be relegated again.

You're right it would take a lot of money but that is something Juve have never been short of.

[Isegrim 9775]

On a serious note do you think they would actually get any of those players apart from maybe sissoko?

You're fucking joking right?

This is juventus, going to be back in serie A next season currently leading serie B by 8 points although they have had 9 points deducted, team includes Buffon, Del Piero, Nedved, won the scudetto more than any other team in the history of calcio, juventus?

Yeah, why would anyone want to play for them???

 

You missed my point slightly Liverpool would need alot of money swung their way to sell either of them and i couldn't see us selling Oba after a year of purchasing him.

 

Juventus are too dodgey i understand players going their but they could always end up dropping down because of their ways.

I highly doubt Juventus will ever be relegated again.

Yep, this time they only bribed the refs but forgot about the judges...

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Alonso is being liked away due to the Fifa rule about players being able to hand in their "notice" when a certain amount of time is up on their contracts.

 

Sissoko has been linked with Juve for a while now, he might be surplus to requirements after Pool bought the Brazil youth captain for £8m.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Weren't the mackems on about trying to sign sissoko?

[Sima 0]

Mackems are going to sign van Nistelrooy and Gary Neville tbh

 

Oh, and Vieira.

Edited May 21, 2007 by Sima

[Anthony nufc 0]

Mackems are going to sign van Nistelrooy and Gary Neville tbh

 

Oh, and Vieira.

And:

-Smith

-ole gunnar

-Giggs

[Sima 0]

Scholes as well tbh