All the latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

• Fulham boss Chris Coleman wants to sign Celtic forward Shaun Maloney for £500,000 after failing to agree a deal for Wayne Routledge. (The Sun)
  
  
• Fulham have made a surprise £500,000 bid for Preston keeper Carlo Nash. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Tottenham are holding talks with Southampton teenager Gareth Bale after having a £10m bid accepted for the defender. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Spurs and Manchester United are locked in a battle for Bale. (Daily Express)
  
  
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• Tottenham and Arsenal are among the clubs targeting 17-year-old Bale. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Manchester United and Tottenham face a head-to-head battle to land Bale. (Daily Star)
  
  
• Bale has set his heart on a move to Manchester United, despite an £8m bid from Tottenham. (The Sun)
  
  
• St Etienne defender Fousseiny Diawara is holding talks with Bolton boss Sam Allardyce. (Various)
  
  
• Tottenham have struck a £3.3m deal for Benfica defender Ricardo Rocha - plus the Portuguese club will play Spurs in two friendly matches. (Various)
  
  
• Hamilton whizzkid James McCarthy is being tracked by Celtic and Chelsea. (Daily Record)
  
  
• Porto have priced Chelsea target Ricardo Quaresma at £14m - and the Blues are not willing to stump up that cash. (The Guardian)
  
  
• Anton Ferdinand has vowed not to walk out on West Ham's relegation fight to join Newcastle. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Keith Gillespie, who was sent off at the weekend, has stunned Sheffield United by handing in a transfer request. (Various)
  
  
• Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp put Lomana LuaLua through an extra hour's training before holding talks over his future. (The Sun)
  
  
• Reading are understood to have offered about £200,000 for Cork City defender Alan Bennett. (The Guardian)
  
  
• Everton boss David Moyes has made a £2m bid for West Ham's Matt Etherington. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Derby boss Billy Davies is close to completing a loan deal for West Ham's Tyrone Mears.(Various)
  
  
• Birmingham are in talks with Sheffield Wednesday over £3m-rated defender Madjid Bougherra. (Various)
  
  
• Leeds boss Dennis Wise wants Wolves keeper Michael Oakes on loan for the rest of the season. (Daily Mirror)
  
  

OTHER GOSSIP
• Former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit has told current boss Jose Mourinho to stop moaning about the club's injury crisis - after spending £200m. (Daily Mirror)
  
  
• Mourinho will give Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko another chance to find his form by naming him in the starting line-up in the Carling Cup semi-final, second leg against Wycombe. (Various)
  
  
• Rangers duo Libor Sionko and Jeremy Clement have spoken of the dressing room unrest as former manager Paul Le Guen and captain Barry Ferguson battled for supremacy. (Daily Record)
  
  
• New West Ham signing Lucas Neill has rubbished claims that he moved to Upton Park for the money. (The Sun)
  
  
• Sports minister Richard Caborn is to gather the Premier League bigwigs together in February to call for a salary cap. (Daily Express)
  
  

AND FINALLY...
• The contenders for the post of commercial director at Manchester United include top circus executive Michael Bolingbroke, who is an accountant by training but is also senior vice-president in charge of shows for the Cirque du Soleil. (Daily Mail)
  
  
• Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd has looked at no fewer than 25 trialists this month - but none have been deemed good enough for the Premiership strugglers. (Various)