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Football Rumours on Thursday 19th May 2011

last updated Thursday 19th May 2011, 9:01 AM

Football rumours from today's newspapers

  • Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has his eye on 33-year-old Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, who may be surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge in the summer.
    (Daily Express)

  • Spurs are also considering cashing in on unsettled striker Jermain Defoe to raise money for an £8m move for Birmingham goalkeeper Ben Foster.
    (Daily Mail)

  • Manchester United are set to make Lens defender Raphael Varane, 18, their first signing of the summer.
    (The Guardian)

  • Arsenal will seek to reinforce the centre of their defence with the £12m signing of Blackburn's Christopher Samba.
    (Daily Mail)

  • Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, who has been regularly linked with a return to boyhood club Barcelona, is at the top of AC Milan's list of summer transfer targets.
    (talkSPORT)

  • Brazilian forward Neymar, who previously rejected a move to Chelsea, says he hopes the Blues make a bid for him again and that he would welcome a move to England.
    (Daily Telegraph)

  • Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Sunderland, Juventus and former club Newcastle are all interested in Wigan winger Charles N'Zogbia.
    (The Mirror)

  • QPR are weighing up an approach to Benfica for Argentina striker Javier Saviola, who could be available for £2m or on a season-long loan deal.
    (The Mirror)

  • Former Chelsea and Barcelona striker Eidur Gudjohnsen, who is currently at Fulham, is also a target for QPR.
    (The Sun)

  • QPR manager Neil Warnock has denied that he is set to swap playmaker Adel Taarabt for Liverpool's Joe Cole, saying that his club could not afford Cole's wages.
    (Metro)

  • Tottenham face a battle with Atletico Madrid over Espanyol striker Pablo Osvaldo, who is expected to fetch £14m for his current employers.
    (The Mirror)

  • Manchester City are set to allow Craig Bellamy to leave the club in a cut-price deal this summer but Emmanuel Adebayor's attempts to engineer a move to Tottenham may be hindered by his £180,000-a-week wages.
    (The Mirror)

  • French side Rennes are steeling themselves for a fight to retain midfielder Yann M'Vila this summer. Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool have been linked with the 20-year-old.
    (talkSPORT)

  • The deadline Juventus set for turning Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani's deal into a permanent switch may have passed but a deal between the two clubs could still be agreed.
    (Daily Mail)

  • Liverpool will face a battle to sign Fiorentina's Juan Vargas because his agent says the playmaker is being targeted by several clubs.
    (Metro)

  • West Ham do not have a manager but the club are interested in signing free agent Cardiff striker Jay Bothroyd.
    (Daily Express)
OTHER GOSSIP
  • A Football Association staff survey aimed at achieving a spot high up in the Sunday Times newspaper's best 100 companies list backfired as it revealed question marks about the organisation's leadership.
    (The Mirror)

  • The Premier League's 20 clubs made losses of nearly £500m in 2009/2010, while an average of 68% was spent on wages.
    (The Guardian)

  • Norwich manager Paul Lambert has emerged as a shock target for West Ham as they search for a new manager but former Newcastle boss Chris Hughton remains the favourite.
    (The Mirror)

  • West Ham have made contact with their top targets and hope to appoint a new manager in the next 14 days.
    (The Mirror)

  • Arsenal will attempt to tie down forward Robin van Persie for the rest of his career with the offer of an improved five-year contract.
    (The Mirror)

  • England Under-21 boss Stuart Pearce is set to name Jack Wilshere in his squad for this summer's European Championship, against the wishes of the midfielder's club Arsenal.
    (The Times)

  • Striker Andy Carroll is likely to be left out by Pearce for the tournament in Denmark, with doubts over the Liverpool striker's fitness.
    (Daily Telegraph)
AND FINALLY
  • Arsenal striker Robin van Persie says the club's staff used the tracking systems players wear to monitor their performance to check on a computer whether a team-mate was telling the truth when he said he had to go home to pick up something. Van Persie added: "They could actually see he really did go home and came straight back, so he wasn't lying. And now we don't have a private life!"
    (The Sun)
























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