Football rumours from today's newspapers

• Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho is preparing a £10m raid on his old club Chelsea for striker Didier Drogba.
  (Sunday People)


• Manchester United will move for Porto midfielder Raul Meireles if they fail to land Werder Bremen's Mesut Ozil.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Marseille are considering an offer for Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov and are also keen on Tottenham forward Roman Pavlyuchenko.
  (imscouting)


• United are battling it out with Arsenal to sign Paris St Germain's 20-year-old French defender Mamadou Sakho, who is valued at £12m.
  (caughtoffside)


• Barcelona have moved ahead of Inter Milan in the race to sign Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano by offering £15m plus winger Alexander Hleb.
  (Sunday People)


• Or, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has reportedly ruled out the signing of Argentinean Mascherano.
  (imscouting)


• .com Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner could be about to sanction a £20m move for Tottenham's midfielder David Bentley and striker Robbie Keane.
  (caughtoffside)


• West Ham striker Carlton Cole is a target for new Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Liverpool are also keen on Cole's Hammers team-mate, utility player Valon Behrami as well as Tottenham striker Giovani dos Santos.
  (caughtoffside)


• Brazil legend Pele has urged teenage striker Neymar to stay with Santos and reject a move to Premier League leaders Chelsea.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer is on the verge of completing his 'dream' move to Arsenal.
  (News of the World)


• Tottenham have placed a 'staggering' £10m price tag on midfielder Jermaine Jenas as Spurs look to fund a move for Hammers star Scott Parker.
  (News of the World)


• Spurs could increase their initial £7m offer for Parker to £12m with boss Harry Redknapp keen to land the 29-year-old.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Tottenham are set to launch a £10.6m bid for Nice striker Loic Remy on Monday.
  (imscouting)


• Sunderland are considering a move for Fulham striker Bobby Zamora with boss Steve Bruce also keen on Tottenham's Peter Crouch and Manchester City's Craig Bellamy.
  (News of the World)


• Bruce is also keen on Wigan winger Charles N'Zogbia who recently demanded a transfer and stormed out of a training session.
  (News of the World)


• Sunderland could pay up to £10m for Frenchman N'Zogbia.
  (Sunday People)


• Brazilian forward Robinho is set to be offered one last chance to prove himself at Manchester City.
  (News of the World)


• Or, Manchester City are set to sell Robinho to Turkish side Fenerbahce for just under half of the £32.5m they paid Real Madrid for him two summers ago.
  (Sunday Times)


• Arsenal are weighing up a £9m move for Blackburn Rovers teenage centre back Phil Jones.
  (caughtoffside)


• Manchester City will complete their summer spending with the £25m signing of Bordeaux's France midfielder Yoann Gourcuff.
  (caughtoffside)


• Midfielder Jimmy Bullard says he wants to stay at Hull despite the club wanting to send him out on loan.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Bolton and Middlesbrough are locked in a £2m battle to sign Sunderland centre-back Matt Killgallon.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Fulham boss Mark Hughes wants to hijack Birmingham City's move for Olympiakos striker Matt Derbyshire.
  (Sunday People)


• Hughes is also close to sealing the signing of former Chelsea and Barcelona star Eidur Gudjohnsen.
  (Sunday People)


• Blackpool are keen to sign veteran Birmingham striker Marcus Bent on loan.
  (Sunday People)

• Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher says that Fabio Capello's eventual replacement as England manager should be English.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Capello is being lined up by Manchester City's Arab owners to take over from manager Roberto Mancini, if the club does not get off to a good start to the new season.
  (News of the World)


• And Capello's future as England manager is in doubt following his clumsy ending of midfielder David Beckham's international career with the Football Association said to be furious at the way the Italian announced the decision in a TV interview.
  (News of the World)


• Capello may scrap plans to recruit another English coach to his backroom staff - because nobody wants the job.
  (Sunday People)


• Meanwhile, Everton defender Phil Jagielka will never rule himself out of England contention because it would upset his parents.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Robinho, Craig Bellamy, Jo, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Roque Santa Cruz and Felipe Caicedo will ask for a similar £2m pay-off as Stephen Ireland before they agree to leave Manchester City.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Aston Villa want Ajax boss Martin Jol as a possible replacement for Martin O'Neill.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• But Jol will deal Villa a blow by ruling himself out of the running to replace recently departed manager O'Neill.
  (Sunday Express)


• Veteran 39-year-old goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar says it is time for the new generation of Manchester United players to step up to the plate as the club chase their 19th league title.
  (Daily Mail)

• Former World and European player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo has just gained his 10 millionth fan on social networking site Facebook. But the Real Madrid star still lags well behind American pop star Lady Gaga who has 15 million.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• From one social networking site to another. Barcelona's current World and European player of the year Lionel Messi is fan of Aston Villa winger Ashley Young. The Barcelona forward called Young's performance against West Ham on Saturday "a blinder" on his official Twitter page.
  (Sunday People)


• Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has admitted that he regrets his decision not to come out of international retirement and play for England at this summer's World Cup.
  (Sunday Express)