Football rumours from today's newspapers

• Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is set to win the race to seal the signing of Southampton's teenage midfield prodigy Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in a deal worth £10m.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Jose Mourinho has targeted his former Chelsea star Didier Drogba to ease his striker crisis at Real Madrid.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Drogba heads a list of senior players who could be heading for the exit in the summer as Chelsea plan a major overhaul of the squad which won three titles in six seasons but is now showing its age.
  (Sunday Times)


• Arsenal will let Russian striker Andrey Arshavin leave in the summer, with Chelsea a possible destination.
  (News of the World)


• Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester United will not be buying anyone in the transfer window as there is "no value" in the market at the moment.
  (The Observer)


• Aston Villa defender Curtis Davies, currently on loan at Leicester, could be on his way back to the West Midlands to sign for Birmingham in a permanent deal.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Shaun Wright-Phillips is close to agreeing a move to Fulham which will see the Manchester City and England winger join on loan before signing on a permanent basis in the summer.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Sunderland manager Steve Bruce is set to land striker Roman Pavlyuchenko from Tottenham as a replacement for Darren Bent.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Blackburn striker El Hadji Diouf says he has no desire to move away from the club and new manager Steve Kean has told him to ignore specultion he could be sold.
  (News of the World)


• Everton could be going head-to-head with West Ham to try and sign Hoffenheim's Senegal international striker Demba Ba, despite fears he may not be fit to play until April after failing a medical at Stoke.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has told Manchester City's Mario Balotelli to forget about a move to the San Siro. "How many top striker can you have at one club?" said the Swedish international.
  (Mail on Sunday)


• Arsenal's desperate search for a new central defender could see them make a shock move for Tottenham's injury-plagued Jonathan Woodgate, who is out of contract in the summer.
  (News of the World)

• The Premier League is planning a radical overhaul of youth level football which could see the end of reserve team matches.
  (Sunday Telegraph)


• Former Arsenal captain Tony Adams says he fears for the future of Chelsea skipper John Terry if he keeps having injections to allow him to play without pain.
  (Sunday Mirror)


• Wigan manager Roberto Martinez has accused Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas of being a master of the art of extracting favourable decisions from referees after his side's 3-0 defeat at the Gunners on Saturday.
  (talkSPORT)


• Manchester United have denied claims an investment group acting on behalf of the Qatar Royal Family made an approach to buy the club from the Glazer family after Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
  (The Observer)


• Gareth Bale could become the best-paid player in Tottenham history when they offer him a new £100,000-a-week five-year deal - less than a year after he signed a four-year deal for £45,000 a week.
  (News of the World)

• The first league to move to summer football could be revealed on Wednesday when representatives of the 150 teams in the Tyne and Wear Youth League will meet to decide whether to change their season to begin on 1 June, starting this year.
  (The Observer)


• Blackpool's players have recorded a single to raise money for former youth team coach Gary Parkinson who was left paralysed by a stroke in September at the age of 42.
  (Sunday Times)


• German side St Pauli have asked the owners of one of their executive boxes to stop strippers performing during games after they installed a pole and mirror. "They can do what they like after games," said club president Stefan Orth.
  (The Observer)