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Rumours on Monday 21st January 2008

last updated Monday 21st January 2008, 7:53 AM

All the latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

  • Everton are ready to offer £2m for out-of-favour Portsmouth midfielder Sean Davis. (Mail)


  • Portsmouth are interested in taking Bobby Zamora from West Ham either on loan or in a permanent move. (Mirror)


  • Newcastle want to take Sol Campbell from Portsmouth, with Manchester City's Micah Richards and Manchester United's Michael Carrick also on their shopping list. (Star)


  • Tottenham boss Juande Ramos has decided he wants to keep Jermain Defoe at the club despite suggestions he could join Aston Villa. (Times)


  • Burnley could make a shock £750,000 move for Dundee United captain Barry Robson. (Mirror)
OTHER GOSSIP
  • Liverpool's American owners have rejected an initial £300m offer from Dubai International Capital to buy the club. (Times)


  • John Terry has still not spoken to Fabio Capello and does not yet know if he will be his England captain. (Mirror)


  • Terry Venables is favourite to be the next Republic of Ireland boss as Gerard Houllier's contract buy-out with the French Football Federation is too high. (Mail)


  • Former Preston and Derby boss Billy Davies is on stand-by to replace George Burley at Southampton if Burley gets the Scotland job. (Mirror)


  • Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill says the club does not have a big enough squad to cope with the demands of playing in Europe. (Independent)


  • Sir Alex Ferguson says he was just expressing "relief" at Cristiano Ronaldo's late goal, rather than being insulting, when cameras caught him making gestures to the crowd at Reading. (Various)


  • Kevin Keegan says he is "sure" Alan Shearer will manage Newcastle at some point in the future. (Sun)


  • Norwich boss Glenn Roeder wants Dion Dublin to put off his decision to retire for a year. (Sun)


  • Manchester City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says goalkeeper Joe Hart is a future England player and would not be fazed if he was called up now. (Mirror)
AND FINALLY...
  • Tottenham's Jermain Defoe says he was "a bit embarrassed" to be made captain on Saturday as he knew it would raise speculation about his future at the club. (Times)


  • Reading skipper Graeme Murty swapped shirts with Cristiano Ronaldo on Saturday but had it pinched from the dressing room when he was in the shower. (Star)


  • When he was a boy Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor practiced his heading by hanging a ball from a piece of string and shortening the string every time he managed to touch it. (Guardian)


  • Sheffield Wednesday boss Brian Laws says his wife is such a big Owls fan she had packed his bags and threatened to throw him out if they did not beat Sheffield United. (Mail)


  • Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov won Lithuania's version of Strictly Come Dancing. (Independent)


  • Hermann Hreidarsson's reward for winning Iceland's player of the year award was an encyclopaedia of Icelandic grammar which was too big for him to bring to England. (Mirror)


  • Little Britain star Matt Lucas has sent Arsene Wenger a full set of the show's DVDs after meeting the Arsenal boss last week. (Mirror)
























Source BBC Sport