Football rumours from today's newspapers

• Barcelona will make a take-it-or-leave-it offer of £40m to Arsenal in one last attempt to prise midfielder Cesc Fabregas away from the Emirates.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has insisted that left-back Ashley Cole is not for sale and will not be joining Real Madrid or Manchester City.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• So Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho will instead turn his attention to Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra, with his team-mate Nemanja Vidic also a target.
  (News of the World)


• Manchester United want to sign Bayern Munich defender Philipp Lahm and are prepared to offer forward Dimitar Berbatov in order to land the 26-year-old German.
  (Sunday Express)


• Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez will launch joint bids to bring Anfield forward Dirk Kuyt and Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar to Inter Milan.
  (Sunday Times)


• Everton have rejected a £14m bid from Arsenal for central defender Phil Jagielka, and the Gunners are now poised to make an improved £16m offer for the England international.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Mario Balotelli's transfer to Manchester City is back on after they offered £20m for the Inter Milan 19-year-old.
  (News of the World)


• Newcastle could swoop for Real Madrid midfielder Mahamadou Diarra, who has fallen out of favour at the Bernabeu and will be released by the Spanish giants.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Liverpool have offered England international and former Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole a £90,000-a-week three-year contract.
  (News of the World)


• New Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has told midfielder Steven Gerrard and striker Fernando Torres to decide if they want to remain at Anfield in the next two weeks.
  (News of the World)


• Arsenal and Tottenham have been told that Ipswich's 17-year-old striker Connor Wickham will cost them £10m.
  (News of the World)


• Tottenham are interested in signing Blackburn's 18-year-old defender Phil Jones.
  (Sunday People)


• West Brom are lining up a £1m bid to sign Blackburn striker Jason Roberts.
  (Daily Star on Sunday)


• Stoke City are set to offer West Ham £8m for striker Carlton Cole.
  (Sunday People)

• The owners of United States baseball giants New York Yankees are looking at buying Tottenham for £450m.
  (Daily Star on Sunday)


• Fulham have persuaded former Tottenham manager Martin Jol to quit Ajax to become Roy Hodgson's successor at Craven Cottage, and will confirm the appointment on Monday.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• England manager Fabio Capello believes his failure to convince Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes to come out of international retirement was a massive contributing factor to his side's dismal World Cup showing this summer.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• England players want Capello sacked following the publication of player ratings website the Capello Index.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Former Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate is in line to become part of Capello's backroom staff and could eventually replace the Italian.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Manchester City are interested in adding Capello's England assistant Franco Baldini to their coaching team.
  (Sunday People)

• Aston Villa's Bulgarian midfielder Stiliyan Petrov believes England will never win a major tournament unless a domestic season winter-break is introduced.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton is to give up his executive box at Manchester City after the club raised the price of it from £22,000 last season to £39,000 for the coming campaign.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• It has been revealed that over one million World Cup seats went unsold in South Africa, with many locals unable to afford to buy tickets for the games.
  (Mail on Sunday)