Latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

• Newcastle striker Michael Owen - who will be a free agent in the summer - is being tracked by Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari. (The Sun)



• Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is poised to make a new bid for Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso. (Daily Mirror)



• Tottenham will offer £5m plus midfielders Aaron Lennon and Jamie O'Hara - valued at £10m and £5m respectively - to tempt Liverpool into selling former Spurs striker Robbie Keane. (Daily Mirror)



• Hertha Berlin striker Marko Pantelic is available for around £1.5m and is wanted by West Brom, Wigan, Everton and Middlesbrough. (Daily Mail)



• Wigan manager Steve Bruce has put a £10m price tag on striker Emile Heskey, with Aston Villa, Liverpool and Tottenham all interested. (Daily Express)



• Spurs boss Harry Redknapp thinks Heskey will wait until his Wigan contract ends in the summer before leaving the JJB Stadium. (The Times)



• Blackburn are keen on former Liverpool defender Steve Finnan, who joined Spanish side Espanyol in the summer. (Daily Mail)



• Former Middlesbrough midfielder Carlos Marinelli is eyeing a move to Bristol City. (The Sun)



• Swansea will make a fresh bid for Derry City winger Niall McGinn after having a £175,000 offer turned down last week. (Daily Mirror)



• Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra says he does not want to leave Ibrox despite interest from several English clubs and French giants Marseille. (Daily Record)

• Under-fire Blackburn manager Paul Ince insists he has the backing of his players and Rovers chairman John Williams. (The Sun)



• Ince will be sacked if Blackburn fail to beat Wigan on Saturday. (Daily Star)



• CFR Cluj star Juan Culio - known to the Romanian club's fans as Draculio - says Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari has disrespected his side by saying he will quit if the Blues fail to win their Champions League Group A match on Tuesday and qualify for the knockout stage. (The Sun)



• Watford manager Brendan Rogers is yet to sign a contract at Vicarage Road and could still walk out if he does not get assurances over his wages budget and control of the transfer market. (Daily Star)



• West Ham boss Gianfranco Zola says his assistant Steve Clarke is the best signing he will ever make as Hammers manager. (Daily Mirror)



• Zola fears he could lose Clarke if the former Chelsea assistant boss receives an offer to go into management in his own right. (Daily Star)



• Portsmouth owner Sasha Gaydamak insists there will not be a January clear-out of players at Fratton Park despite putting the club up for sale. (The Sun)



• Pompey boss Tony Adams has also insisted he will not be forced into a January firesale of his star players. (Daily Star)



• Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, has told Liverpool that he has ended his interest in buying the club after an unsuccessful two-year pursuit. (The Times)



• Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is hoping for a warm reception from West Ham supporters when he returns to Upton Park with Spurs on Monday night. (The Independent)



• The SPL are to launch an enquiry into why Saturday's games at Kilmarnock and Motherwell were postponed due to frozen pitches despite both clubs having undersoil heating. (Daily Record)



• Falkirk striker Steve Lovell has warned his team-mates they are not too good to avoid relegation from the SPL after Saturday's home defeat by St Mirren. (Daily Record)



• Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn is in no rush to find a replacement for former manager Roy Keane before Saturday's bottom-of-the-table clash with West Brom. (The Sun)



• Thailand boss Peter Reid, who managed Sunderland from 1995 to 2002, has a clause in his contract allowing him to speak to English clubs and is keen on the Black Cats job. (Daily Mail)



• Former Bolton and Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce is still the leading British contender for the vacant Black Cats job, while ex-Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier, former Chelsea manager Avram Grant and Hamburg boss Martin Jol are also keeping tabs on the situation at the Stadium of Light. (The Sun)



• Hull City boss Phil Brown feels Allardyce is the right man for Sunderland after working under him at Bolton. (Daily Star)



• Brown has joined former Charlton and West Ham manager Alan Curbishley in saying he is not interested in taking the Sunderland job himself. (Daily Express)



• Sunderland's caretaker management team of Ricky Sbragia and Dwight Yorke are not serious candidates to take the post on a permanent basis. (Daily Express)



• Sbragia is highly regarded by the Sunderland board and has not ruled himself out of the running. (Daily Mail)

• During his club's tour of New Zealand, LA Galaxy and England midfielder David Beckham looked nervous before attempting a 130ft bungy jump - but ended up enjoying it so much that he insisted on having another go. (Various)