All the latest football rumours from today's newspapers.
- Fulham are ready to battle with Reading to sign Didier Digard. (Daily Express)
- Fulham made a £4.5m offer for West Brom's Diomansy Kamara after Heidar Helguson snubbed a swap deal. (Daily Mirror)
- Parma have made a bid, thought to be £6m, for Manchester United striker Giuseppe Rossi. (The Guardian)
- Liverpool's record £25m bid for Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres is being held up by the striker's £2.5m pay-off clause. (The Sun)
- West Ham striker Carlos Tevez is likely to leave for Inter Milan this summer. (Daily Mirror)
- Thaksin Shinawatra has set his sights on bringing Shaun Wright-Phillips back to Manchester City when his takeover is complete. (The Sun)
- Preston striker David Nugent could have to wait until Christmas to get his dream move to Everton. (The Sun)
- Blackburn boss Mark Hughes is pulling out of a deal for Roma's Shabani Nonda and will offload Francis Jeffers to Ipswich. (Daily Mirror)
- Chelsea defender Wayne Bridge will snub a move from Stamford Bridge as he expects to be number one left-back at the club next season. (Daily Star)
- Tottenham will listen to offers for Jermain Defoe once they complete the signing of Charlton's Darren Bent. (Daily Mirror)
- Charlton are refusing to budge on their asking price of £17m for Bent. (The Independent)
- Birmingham boss Steve Bruce is lining up a double swoop for Arsenal's Mathieu Flamini and Celta Vigo's Daniel de Ridder. (The Sun)
- Bruce is close to signing French star Olivier Kapo from Juventus. (Daily Mirror)
- Sunderland boss Roy Keane is plotting a swoop for West Brom defenders Paul McShane and Paul Robinson. (The Sun, Daily Mail)
- Keane is close to agreeing a £1m move for Aberdeen skipper Russell Anderson. (Daily Record)
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Dutch star Ryan Babel will snub a move to Arsenal this summer to stay at Ajax, but has admitted he is tempted by a move in the future. (Various)
- Reading have offered Leroy Lita has been offered a new £20,000-a-week contract to keep him. (Various)
- Wigan are ready to sell striker Lee McCulloch to Rangers - as long as they agree to take defender Andy Webster too. (Daily Mirror)
- Rangers must fork out £1.5m up front, plus another £500,000 in add-ons if they are to sign Kilmarnock's Steven Naismith. (Daily Record)
- The Gers fear their chances of signing Bordeaux's Julien Faubert are no better than 50-50. (Daily Record)
- Crystal Palace's move for Benfica defender Jose Fonte is in jeopardy after interest from Steaua Bucharest. (Daily Mail)
- Wolves are close to a £500,000 deal for Crystal Palace defender Darren Ward. (Daily Mirror)
- Bolton have emerged as favourites to sign Sheffield United's Phil Jagielka. (Daily Star)
OTHER GOSSIP
- Former Fulham boss Chris Coleman has had talks about becoming the new Real Sociedad coach. (Various)
- Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has admitted he does not know whether Arsene Wenger will stay at the club. (Daily Mirror)
- But Wenger's good friend Max Hild, his former boss at Strasbourg, says that he will remain at the north London club for life. (The Sun)
- Hong Kong billionaire Carson Yeung Ka-Shing is closing in on his takeover of Birmingham. (The Sun)
- Newcastle's new owner Mike Ashley is ready to invest £50m in transfer cash to trigger the club's revival. (Daily Mirror)
- Alan Curbishley's future as West Ham boss could be in doubt despite him leading them to Premiership safety last season. (Daily Star)
- Sven-Goran Eriksson has agreed to take the Manchester City job and prove his critics wrong. (Daily Express)
- Eriksson has agreed a three-year deal worth £3m a season - making him one of the Premiership's highest paid managers behind Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho.
- City fans have been rushing to snap up season tickets with the prospect of Eriksson to splash £50m of the new owner's money. (The Sun)
- Eriksson will have to wait until next week to be named as Stuart Pearce's successor. (Daily Star)
- Thai prosecutors are stepping up their bid to derail Shinawatra's £81.6m takeover bid. (Daily Telegraph)
- Officials from the Premier League, FA and Football League have agreed to meet sports minister Richard Caborn for talks over foreign ownership of clubs. (Various)
- Chelsea want Portsmouth's technical director Avram Grant in place as their sporting director in time for their pre-season trip to LA. (the Sun)
- Everton's plans to move to a new 55,000-seater stadium in Kirkby have been hit by protests from local residents. (Daily Mail)
- Bolton's new arrival Bierim Dzemaili has been ruled out until 2008. (Daily Mail)
- West Ham are still waiting for almost £1m in compensation over the injury to Dean Ashton while on England duty. (The Guardian)
AND FINALLY...
- David Beckham is being urged to cut short his holiday to help the LA Galaxy, who have slumped to second bottom of their division. (The Sun)
- Sheffield Wednesday's pre-season plans are in doubt because of the flooding at Hillsborough. (Daily Express)
- Uefa has admitted English football fans are unfairly targeted by foreign riot cops. (The Sun)