Latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

• Fulham goalkeeper Antti Niemi says he will turn down a move to Liverpool to fight for his place at Craven Cottage. (Daily Star)
  
  
• Hull have agreed a £1m fee for Middlesbrough midfielder George Boateng but face competition from Celtic and Fulham. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Sunderland are hoping to hijack Hull City's £2m bid for Boateng. (The Sun)
  
  
• Arsenal winger Alex Hleb says he has fallen out with Gunners boss Arsene Wenger and would like to play for Barcelona next season. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Inter Milan are prepared to pay up to £8m to sign Frank Lampard from Chelsea (Daily Mirror), £9m (The Sun) or £11m. (The Independent)
  
  
• Chelsea insist they have not received an offer for Lampard and expect him to see out his contract at Stamford Bridge. (Daily Star)
  
  
• New Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari wants Lampard to stay and the England midfielder is also looking for a new deal with the Blues but is yet to be offered a new contract. (The Independent)
  
  
• Scolari will allow Andriy Shevchenko, Florent Malouda, Claudio Pizarro, Steve Sidwell and Carlo Cudicini to leave Chelsea. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Newcastle are lining up a £5m move for Sidwell. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• But Sidwell is on the verge of a £5m move to Aston Villa to replace Liverpool-bound Gareth Barry. (Daily Star, The Times)
  
  
• Martin O'Neill is considering accepting Liverpool's £15m bid for Barry now that Steve Finnan has been offered in addition in a part-exchange deal. (The Times)
  
  
• Chelsea are demanding £24m for want-away striker Didier Drogba but are yet to receive any offers. (The Independent)
  
  
• Fenerbahce's Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos, 35, claims Chelsea want to sign him. (Daily Star)
  
  
• Blackburn are willing to sell England winger David Bentley but have told Tottenham, Liverpool and Aston Villa that their asking price is £17m. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Tottenham have offered an assortment of players, including striker Darren Bent, goalkeeper Paul Robinson and defender Anthony Gardner, in part-exchange for Bentley. (The Guardian)
  
  
• Russian star Andrei Arshavin will cost any club wishing to sign him from Zenit St Petersburg a total of £41.5m in transfer fees and wages. (Daily Telegraph)
  
  
• Real Madrid are still chasing Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo even though the Portuguese winger is out injured for the next six weeks. (The Sun)
  
  
• Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon says United should be "proud" to let Ronaldo join them in what he says could be the "transfer of the century". (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Birmingham will sell Olivier Kapo to Wigan to fund a £3.5m move for Reading striker Dave Kitson. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Aston Villa are lining up a season-long loan deal for Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster but are also eyeing Tottenham's Paul Robinson and United States international Brad Guzan. (The Sun)
  
  
• Crewe are demanding £2m for striker Nicky Maynard after rejecting bids from Bristol City and Ipswich. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Everton boss David Moyes hopes to persuade Manchester United to sell him Scotland midfielder Darren Fletcher. (The Sun)
  
  
• Sunderland, Celtic and Rangers are all in the race to sign Watford centre-back Danny Shittu. (Daily Star)
  
  
• Wigan are willing to pay up to £10m to sign Everton striker Andrew Johnson. (The Sun)
  
  
• Sunderland are also closing in on a deal for Johnson after indicating they are prepared to match the Toffees' £10m asking price. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Auxerre defender Gabriel Tamas is keen on a £3.5m switch to Celtic after being transfer-listed by his French side. (Daily Record)
  
  
• Crystal Palace have dropped their interest in Hearts striker Christian Nade after the Jambos rejected a £300,000 offer. (Daily Record)
  
  
• Liverpool goalkeeper Charles Itandje is poised to join Turkish side Galatasaray. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• West Brom are lining up a £2.5m bid for Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi and also want £3m-rated Bolton defender Abdoulaye Meite. (The Sun)
  
  
• Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp is keen on Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul. (Daily Telegraph)
  
  
• Redknapp is also chasing Chelsea winger Shaun Wright-Phillips, Reading defender Nicky Shorey and Lens left-back Nadir Belhadj. (The Guardian)
  
  
• Linfield have rejected Kilmarnock's latest offer for striker Peter Thompson. (Daily Record)
  
  
• Aston Villa are considering signing midfielder Steed Malbranque, who will be allowed to leave Tottenham, as well as Sheffield Wednesday defender Frank Simek. (The Times)
  
  
• Want-away Swansea midfielder Ferrie Bodde will join up with his team-mates on their pre-season tour of Sweden, despite saying he wants to join Derby County. (Western Mail)
  
  
• Spartak Moscow have attempted to head off interest from Celtic by offering their £4million-rated Austrian defender Martin Stranzl a new three-year deal. (Various)

• Arsenal have told Emmanuel Adebayor that they will pay him £3m per year to sign a new contract - less than half the money he is demanding. (The Sun)
  
  
• New Newcastle chairman Derek Llambias insists the club's owner Mike Ashley has no plans to sell the Magpies. (The Independent)
  
  
• Everton midfielder Tim Cahill could miss the start of the season with the broken metatarsal that ruled him out of the end of last campaign. (Daily Star)
  
  
• Hearts' majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov has unveiled plans to increase his holding in the club from 81.5% to 95.1%. (Daily Record)
  
  
• Motherwell have turned down a £300,000 offer to rename their Fir Park ground after a radio station. (Daily Record)
  
  
• Bob Malcolm has turned down offers from England and will sign a 12-month deal with Motherwell this week. (Various)
  
  
• Aberdeen's Alan Maybury could have blown his chance to stay at Pittodrie by delaying his decision on a new deal. (Sun)
  
  
• Ex-England striker Robbie Fowler will head to Dubai to finish his career, after one final season with Cardiff City. (Western Mail)

• Crystal Palace winger Ashley-Paul Robinson has been forced to apologise after posting details of a proposed move to Fulham on his Facebook page. (The Guardian)
  
  
• Aston Villa had their training session disrupted by two giant Rottweilers on Monday. The dogs had escaped from a nearby farm and the club called a dog warden to collect them. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• New Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari was intrigued when he walked into the dressing room at the club's training ground on his first day in charge and found a game of darts going on - he had only ever seen the game being played on TV before. (The Sun)