Sunday's Gossip

[Jimbo 175]

SCOLARI'S TRANSFER TARGETS

 

Big Phil will bid £40m for Liverpool striker Fernando Torres. (News of the World)

 

But the Spanish international has reassured Liverpool fans that he has no desire to leave Liverpool. (Sunday Express)

 

Ronaldinho would love to sign for Chelsea and be reunited with Scolari, the coach who made him a World Cup winner six years ago (Daily Telegraph)

 

Scolari will shake-up Chelsea's midfield and attack with moves for Deco, Ricardo Quaresma, Ronaldinho and David Villa, with Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka among those likely to leave. (Sunday Times)

 

Deco won't be moving to Stamford Bridge as he is seen as too old to justify a likely £12m price tag (Various)

 

TRANSFER RUMOURS

 

Rafa Benitez could persuade David Villa to sign for Liverpool, according to the striker's Spanish team-mate Carlos Marchena. (Mail on Sunday)

 

Ronaldo agreed personal terms on a move to Real Madrid "a long time ago". (The Observer)

 

But United won't be bullied into offering Ronaldo a bumper new pay deal to persuade him to stay. (Mail on Sunday)

 

Liverpool will up their bid for Gareth Barry to £15m and could sign the Aston Villa midfielder as early as next week. (The Observer)

 

And they might have to go as high as £20m for the England international. (News of the World)

 

Spurs keeper Paul Robinson will not be moving to Middlesbrough as manager Gareth Southgate has decided to give Brad Jones and Ross Turnbull the chance to fight it out for the number one shirt. (The Observer)

 

Bordeaux and Roma are chasing Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre. (Channel 4 - Football Italia)

 

Spurs boss Juande Ramos wants two keepers to replace Paul Robinson - Manchester City's Joe Hart and France international Gregory Coupet. (News of the World)

 

Manchester City boss Mark Hughes hopes to sign Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra for £8m. (News of the World)

 

 

 

And Hughes will complete the £18m capture of Brazilian forward Jo this month. (Various)

 

James Milner has pleaded with Newcastle not to block a "dream" £7m move to Liverpool. (Various)

 

Coventry have signed Aron Einar Gunnarsson from AZ Alkmaar (The Observer)

 

Manchester City goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson is a £2m target for Turkish side Galatasaray. (Various)

 

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OTHER GOSSIP

 

Sheffield Wednesday hope to secure Alan Shearer as their new manager once a £50m take over has been completed. (News of the World)

Southampton want former World Cup winner Ossie Ardiles as their director of football. (News of the World)

 

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AND FINALLY

 

Sam Allardyce would not be a popular appointment as manager of Blackburn among some fans, with almost 2,000 signing up to a Facebook petition. (Various)

[The Fish 10963]

Sheffield Wednesday hope to secure Alan Shearer as their new manager once a £50m take over has been completed. (News of the World)

Basically going to be linked with every Job going in Britain isn't he?

[Offshore Toon 0]

£7m for Milner?!

 

Fucking hell. I'd be extremely happy with that.

[SloopJohn 0]

that would be sah-weet.

[Fop 1]

Still not sure £7M is enough when you consider everything, including how much we paid for Smith.

[Scottish Mag 3]

NEWCASTLE face a mighty new foe in the race for French striker Bafetimbi Gomis – Jose Mourinho.

 

United are ready to pay £10 million for St Etienne starlet Gomis, dubbed the new Didier Drogba.

 

But Mourinho is ready to make the task of luring the 22-year-old to Tyneside all the more difficult by offering him Champions League football at Inter Milan.

 

The former Chelsea boss is said to be cool on the idea of taking Drogba himself to the San Siro, but Gomis is available at less than half the price.

 

Meanwhile, the Sunday Sun under- stands Newcastle are in talks with Tottenham over a deal for central defender Younes Kaboul.

 

But United — who envisage spending big money on Gomis and the likes of Arda Turan, Andrei Arshavin or Rafael van der Vaart — are reluctant to meet Spurs’ £6m asking price for the 22-year-old.

 

The Magpies have been offered Benfica’s Brazilian centre-half Luisao, but won’t be doing business at a quoted price of £12m.

 

But Ipswich remain defiantly confident of boosting Newcastle’s coffers by buying Shola Ameobi, with manager Jim Magilton still hopeful of convincing the seemingly reluctant striker to join them when he returns from honeymoon.

[Kid Dynamite 7167]

They can have him after the other nights performance! Same goes for Turan

[Tooj 17]

They can have him after the other nights performance! Same goes for Turan

[Gejon 2]

Didn't Jose rule out a move for Drogba because he said he didn't need a striker?

[Hadrian 0]

Didn't Jose rule out a move for Drogba because he said he didn't need a striker?

 

 

Zltan will frustrate jose to hell , not his kind of player , i think he will move him on tbh .

[Andrew 4856]

They can have him after the other nights performance! Same goes for Turan

 

everyone one says you can't judge a player as being good enough based on stuff like euro and world cups but plenty of people seem happy to rule players out based on them

[paddy 17]

Sheffield Wednesday hope to secure Alan Shearer as their new manager once a £50m take over has been completed. (News of the World)

Basically going to be linked with every Job going in Britain isn't he?

 

 

Shearer to be new face of X Factor

 

Alan Shearer has been lined up to replace Sharon Osbourne on this years X Factor.