All the latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

• Manchester United want to sign Sporting Lisbon midfielder Nani in a £17.5m swoop. (Daily Mirror)



• A £9m release clause in Newcastle forward Michael Owen's contract has alerted Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea. (Various)



• Barcelona are set to make a £15m bid for Arsenal striker Thierry Henry. (Daily Star)



• Chelsea are chasing West Ham striker Carlos Tevez. (Daily Star)



• Tottenham are determined to hang on to striker Dimitar Berbatov, despite growing interest from Manchester United. (Daily Mirror)



• Everton are ready to make a £5.5m cut-price bid for Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton. (Various)



• Andy Todd has been told he can leave Blackburn, with Wigan and Rangers linked to the defender. (Daily Mirror)



• Jose Reyes is trying to find a club in Spain to avoid a return to Arsenal, who are ready to recall the winger because Real Madrid are not convinced they should make his loan move a permanent one. (The Sun)



• Real Zaragoza defender Gaby Milito has pleaded for the chance to join Liverpool after they lined up a £10m player-plus-cash deal involving Mark Gonzalez. (Daily Mirror)



• Birmingham boss Steve Bruce will find out next week how much cash there will be available to spend on players after the club's promotion to the Premiership. (The Sun)



• Sunderland manager Roy Keane wants to make on-loan Manchester United defender Danny Simpson a permanent signing. (Daily Mirror)



• Charlton have admitted that they face a massive fight to hang on to Darren Bent after being relegated to the Championship, with Liverpool, Tottenham, Newcastle and West Ham all keen to land the striker. (Various)



• Liverpool are keeping tabs on Palermo's Brazilian-born striker Amauri. (The Sun)



• Portsmouth are battling with Juventus to sign £6m-rted Reggina striker Rolando Bianchi. (Daily Star)



• Norwich will not have to sell top scorer Robert Earnshaw after a £2m cash injection from new directors Andrew and Sharon Turner. (Daily Star)

• Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has predicted that AC Milan will beat Liverpool in the Champions League final and if the Italians do triumph he will open a bottle of wine given to him by Milan head coach Carlo Ancelotti after the Red Devils were beaten in the last four. (The Sun)



• Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has apologised to winger Cristiano Ronaldo for condemning the Manchester United winger's upbringing. (Daily Mirror)



• Newcastle's Michael Owen will be allowed to play in England's Euro 2008 qualifier against Estonia in June because the Premiership club's manager-in-waiting Sam Allardyce would allow it, even though the Magpies and the Football Association are in a compensation battle over the striker's 2006 World Cup injury. (The Sun)



• Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack has called for an end to the backbiting he feels has undermined his first year at Stamford Bridge. (Various)



• Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko has held talks with captain John Terry to explain his injury problems because he was concerned about rumours that he was not giving his all for the club. (The Sun)



• Coventry managing director Paul Fletcher says a takeover deal could be struck by the end of this month after a United States-led consortium agreed to buy the club in February. (The Sun)

• Manchester United's players were not on huge incentives to win the Premiership title because Old Trafford chiefs believe they are so well paid they do not need large bonuses to pick up trophies. They shared a pool of £1m, which was based on appearances and amounts to four days' extra pay (£68,000) for the likes of winger Cristiano Ronaldo. (The Sun)



• Helsingborg striker Henrik Larsson, who spent three months on loan at Manchester United this season, will be the Premiership club's guest of honour at this month's FA Cup final against Chelsea. United boss Sir Alex Ferguson said: "I told him, if we got there he would come to the final as our guest." (The Sun)



• Liverpool's players could pick up £100,000 each in bonuses if they beat AC Milan in this month's Champions League final. (Various)



• Ricky Hatton joked that Manchester United's Wayne Rooney bottled out of a visit to the boxer's gym because the striker feared he might be dragged into the ring. Instead, some of Rooney's team-mates turned up to pick up tickets for Hatton's next bout in June - against Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas. (The Sun)



• Joseph Yobo will equal Kevin Ratcliffe's 1987 record of playing in every second of Everton's league campaign if the Nigerian defender completes 90 minutes at Chelsea on Sunday. (Daily Star)