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Rumours on Saturday 10th May

last updated Saturday 10th May 2008, 10:26 AM

Latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

  • Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has agreed a three-year deal with AC Milan to link up with boss Jose Mourinho, who is likely to replace Carlo Ancelotti next season. (The Daily Mirror)


  • Chelsea are ready to bid £20m to take striker Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham. (Daily Express)


  • Man Utd are lining up a move for Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano who has scored 33 goals in 38 games for Sevilla this season. (Daily Mail)


  • Ajax forward Klaas-Jan Huntelaar will be a £16m target for Manchester United if they cannot lure Berbatov from Spurs. (Daily Express)


  • Cristiano Ronaldo is not happy at Manchester United and is considering leaving this summer, with Real Madrid "waiting with open arms". (Spanish sports paper Marca)


  • Liverpool describe as "fantasy" suggestions that they have had a bid from Inter Milan for Steven Gerrard. (Press Association)


  • Sunderland manager Roy Keane will have £50m to spend in the summer and is lining up bids for Atletico Madrid striker Diego Forlan, Celtic's Aiden McGeady and Manchester City captain Richard Dunne. (Daily Star)


  • West Ham will make a move for Brazilian defender Diego Gaucho, currently with Portuguese club Gil Vicente. (Various)


  • Aston Villa want Arsenal keeper Jens Lehmann to replace Scott Carson, whose loan deal from Liverpool is about to end. (The Sun)


  • Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has rekindled his interest in Hamburg's £15m-rated French centre back Vincent Kompany. (The Mirror)


  • Wenger has also agreed a £16m deal to land Lyon winger Hatem Ben Arfa, beating Liverpool and Manchester United to his signature. (The Sun)


  • Defender Peter Ramage, who will leave Newcastle at the end of the season, is close to agreeing a three-year deal with managerless QPR. (The Mirror)


  • Sheffield United striker Rob Hulse is a £1.5m target for relegated Derby. (The Mirror)
OTHER GOSSIP
  • Lawrie Sanchez claims that Fulham would have guaranteed their survival by now if he was still in charge. (The Times)


  • Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will not be at Stamford Bridge to see his side try and win the Premier League title against Bolton on Sunday. (The Sun)


  • Alternatively, Abramovich has a private jet on standby for the three-and-a-half hour journey from Russia to London and will watch Chelsea on Sunday for the first time in 11 matches. (Daily Star)


  • Michael Owen faces a £40,000-a-week wage cut after Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and manager Kevin Keegan struck a "fragile truce" on Friday. (Daily Mail)


  • Frank Lampard has been given a "take it or leave it" offer on a new contract, with Inter Milan joining the queue of clubs keen to take the England midfielder. (The Sun)


  • Reading boss Steve Coppell has admitted he may leave the club if they are relegated to the Championship on Sunday. (Daily Star)


  • Man Utd and Chelsea still have 3,000 tickets available for the Champions League final in Moscow with fans struggling to find affordable flights and accommodation. (Daily Mail)


  • Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore remains convinced that his ideas for a 39th top flight game abroad will still go ahead. (Daily Express)


  • Liverpool co-owner George Gillett was in London on Friday night for informal talks with Dubai International Capital, the group hoping to buy the club. (The Times)
AND FINALLY...
  • Fulham's Dejan Stefanovic says his side "will be lucky to get a point" in their must-win relegation decider against Portsmouth on Sunday. "It is a squad which can just about survive, if they are lucky," he says. "There isn't a lot of quality." (The Sun)


  • Four Chelsea players - captain John Terry, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole and Steve Sidwell - have been pictured riding quad bikes along a busy road without helmets. The quartet were riding from their Cobham training ground in Surrey to a pub four miles away on Thursday. (The Sun)


  • Derby midfielder Robbie Savage has said it would an "amazing fairytale" if Blackburn beat Birmingham on Sunday and send them down. (The Sun)


  • Rams boss Paul Jewell had Alex McLeish in stitches when he told the Birmingham manager that Derby would try to beat Reading on Sunday. He said: "I just said to Alex, 'The bad news is we're going to try our best'. At that point he collapsed!" (The Sun)


  • Fulham chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed has promised his players a £5,000 Harrods hamper if they avoid the drop. "I can't wait for my hamper. I'll be the first in the queue," said midfielder Jimmy Bullard.
























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