Football rumours from today's newspapers

• Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has his eye on 33-year-old Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, who may be surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge in the summer.
  (Daily Express)


• Spurs are also considering cashing in on unsettled striker Jermain Defoe to raise money for an £8m move for Birmingham goalkeeper Ben Foster.
  (Daily Mail)


• Manchester United are set to make Lens defender Raphael Varane, 18, their first signing of the summer.
  (The Guardian)


• Arsenal will seek to reinforce the centre of their defence with the £12m signing of Blackburn's Christopher Samba.
  (Daily Mail)


• Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, who has been regularly linked with a return to boyhood club Barcelona, is at the top of AC Milan's list of summer transfer targets.
  (talkSPORT)


• Brazilian forward Neymar, who previously rejected a move to Chelsea, says he hopes the Blues make a bid for him again and that he would welcome a move to England.
  (Daily Telegraph)


• Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Sunderland, Juventus and former club Newcastle are all interested in Wigan winger Charles N'Zogbia.
  (The Mirror)


• QPR are weighing up an approach to Benfica for Argentina striker Javier Saviola, who could be available for £2m or on a season-long loan deal.
  (The Mirror)


• Former Chelsea and Barcelona striker Eidur Gudjohnsen, who is currently at Fulham, is also a target for QPR.
  (The Sun)


• QPR manager Neil Warnock has denied that he is set to swap playmaker Adel Taarabt for Liverpool's Joe Cole, saying that his club could not afford Cole's wages.
  (Metro)


• Tottenham face a battle with Atletico Madrid over Espanyol striker Pablo Osvaldo, who is expected to fetch £14m for his current employers.
  (The Mirror)


• Manchester City are set to allow Craig Bellamy to leave the club in a cut-price deal this summer but Emmanuel Adebayor's attempts to engineer a move to Tottenham may be hindered by his £180,000-a-week wages.
  (The Mirror)


• French side Rennes are steeling themselves for a fight to retain midfielder Yann M'Vila this summer. Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool have been linked with the 20-year-old.
  (talkSPORT)


• The deadline Juventus set for turning Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani's deal into a permanent switch may have passed but a deal between the two clubs could still be agreed.
  (Daily Mail)


• Liverpool will face a battle to sign Fiorentina's Juan Vargas because his agent says the playmaker is being targeted by several clubs.
  (Metro)


• West Ham do not have a manager but the club are interested in signing free agent Cardiff striker Jay Bothroyd.
  (Daily Express)

• A Football Association staff survey aimed at achieving a spot high up in the Sunday Times newspaper's best 100 companies list backfired as it revealed question marks about the organisation's leadership.
  (The Mirror)


• The Premier League's 20 clubs made losses of nearly £500m in 2009/2010, while an average of 68% was spent on wages.
  (The Guardian)


• Norwich manager Paul Lambert has emerged as a shock target for West Ham as they search for a new manager but former Newcastle boss Chris Hughton remains the favourite.
  (The Mirror)


• West Ham have made contact with their top targets and hope to appoint a new manager in the next 14 days.
  (The Mirror)


• Arsenal will attempt to tie down forward Robin van Persie for the rest of his career with the offer of an improved five-year contract.
  (The Mirror)


• England Under-21 boss Stuart Pearce is set to name Jack Wilshere in his squad for this summer's European Championship, against the wishes of the midfielder's club Arsenal.
  (The Times)


• Striker Andy Carroll is likely to be left out by Pearce for the tournament in Denmark, with doubts over the Liverpool striker's fitness.
  (Daily Telegraph)

• Arsenal striker Robin van Persie says the club's staff used the tracking systems players wear to monitor their performance to check on a computer whether a team-mate was telling the truth when he said he had to go home to pick up something. Van Persie added: "They could actually see he really did go home and came straight back, so he wasn't lying. And now we don't have a private life!"
  (The Sun)