Football rumours from today's newspapers

• Arsenal will grant Cesc Fabregas his wish to join Barcelona this summer if the Catalan club meet the Gunners' £45m valuation of their Spanish playmaker.
  (Goal)


• Juventus and Genoa hope to lure Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov to Serie A next season.
  (The Sun)


• Manchester City have made a £30m bid for Palermo midfielder Javier Pastore, but the Sicilian club want £50m.
  (talkSPORT)


• Liverpool have been told by Ajax that their 19-year-old Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen is not for sale.
  (talkSPORT)


• Charlton face a fight to hold onto teenage defender Carl Jenkinson after interest from Arsenal.
  (talkSPORT)


• Liverpool are pondering a summer move for Chelsea winger Yuri Zhirkov.
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• West Ham's Kieron Dyer could move to Everton if his loan spell at Ipswich Town is successful.
  (The Mirror)


• Everton boss David Moyes has rubbished reports that Manchester United have already agreed a deal to sign the Toffees' 20-year-old midfielder Jack Rodwell.
  (Daily Mail)


• Juventus have been scared off pursuing Chelsea's Jose Bosingwa after the Blues placed a £10m price tag on the Portuguese full-back.
  (Daily Mail)


• Stoke and Wigan are both chasing wantaway Wigan winger Charles N'Zogbia, who is valued at £9m by the Latics.
  (Daily Mail)

• Former Chelsea defender Frank LeBoeuf thinks Blues manager Carlo Ancelotti will leave the club this summer.
  (talkSPORT)


• Matthew Upson has tipped West Ham's centre back James Tomkins for an England call-up.
  (The Mirror)


• Coventry City will keep caretaker manager Andy Thorn in charge until the end of the season.
  (The Mirror)


• Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has insisted a sixth trophy-less season with the Gunners would not prompt him to leave the north London club.
  (Daily Mail)


• Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is considering recalling injury-plagued midfielder Owen Hargreaves, who has trained all week after lengthy treatment to his troublesome knee.
  (Daily Mail)


• Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho lavished praise on Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp after the clubs were drawn together in the Champions League quarter-finals.
  (Daily Mail)


• Liverpool have opened negotiations with interim boss Kenny Dalglish with a view to securing the Scot's services in a two-year deal.
  (Daily Mail)


• Dalglish, meanwhile, has urged England boss Fabio Capello not to risk his striker Andy Carroll - who has just returned to action with his new club after a two-month spell out with a thigh injury - in next weekend's Euro 2012 qualifier against Wales.
  (The Guardian)


• Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli will be dropped for his club's Premier League trip to Chelsea on Sunday despite apologising for his red card in the Europa League tie against Dynamo Kiev on Thursday.
  (The Guardian)


• West Ham boss Avram Grant claims he will borrow training methods from England's rugby union side after watching Martin Johnson's Grand Slam hopefuls being put through their paces.
  (The Mirror)


• Mohammed Bin Hammam has launched his campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter as Fifa president by promising to double the funding every national association receives from the world governing body.
  (Daily Telegraph)


• Blackburn manager Steve Kean has rejected suggestions that he could face the axe after an alleged bust-up with Rovers' Indian owner Anuradha Desai.
  (Daily Express)


• Bolton goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen has urged Manchester United stopper Edwin van der Sar to shelve his plans to retire at the end of the season ahead of the sides' Premier League clash at Old Trafford on Saturday.
  (Daily Star)


• Arsenal striker Andrey Arshavin has admitted he has been emotionally affected by the Gunners' recent dismal run that has reduced their four-pronged silverware hunt to just the Premier League trophy.
  (Daily Express)


• Chelsea centre back John Terry will be restored as England's permanent captain on Saturday - over a year since he was stripped of the role following allegations about his private life.
  (The Sun)


• Former Chelsea and current Dynamo Kiev striker Andrei Shevchenko has advised the Blues' £50m frontman Fernando Torres to "stay calm" and "relax" as the Spaniard bids to break his goal duck at Stamford Bridge.
  (Daily Telegraph)


• Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand will wait to see how he recovers from his latest calf injury before deciding whether or not to end his England career.
  (The Times)

• Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli was forced to admit defeat - after failing to work out how to put on a club training bib in the warm-up for City's clash with Dynamo Kiev.
  (Metro)


• Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has compared Stoke to the Wimbledon 'Crazy Gang' side that won the 1988 FA Cup, because of the Potters' perceived battling qualities.
  (Daily Mail)


• Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan has labelled Liverpool striker Luis Suarez "the most hated person in Ghana" after the Uruguayan's deliberate goal-line handball in his country's World Cup quarter-final defeat by the South Americans.
  (The Mirror)


• League Two Stevenage have been accused of ordering their players to fake injury as part of an alleged ruse to conduct team talks during matches.
  (The Sun)