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Football Rumours on Thursday 8th January 2015

last updated Thursday 08th January 2015, 10:06 AM


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  • Chelsea are prepared to pay a £200m contract-release clause to sign Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, 27.
    ( Daily Star )


  • Liverpool want to buy Manchester City and England midfielder James Milner. The 29-year-old's contract expires at the end of the season.
    (Times)


  • Manchester United have made an offer for German central defender Mats Hummels, but Borussia Dortmund say the 26-year-old is not for sale.
    (Daily Express)


  • Meanwhile, United will accelerate contract talks with goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, after agreeing an 18-month deal with World Cup winner Victor Valdes.
    (Daily Mail)


  • . Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, 32, could leave the club at the end of the season and has been linked with a move across London to Arsenal.
    (Daily Telegraph)


  • England winger Andros Townsend, 23, insists his long-term future is at Tottenham despite being consistently linked with a move away from White Hart Lane.
    ( London Evening Standard )


  • Arsenal have had a £5m bid for Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Marcelo Brozovic rejected. Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, AC Milan and Valencia also want to sign the 22-year-old.
    ( Daily Star )


  • Liverpool and England striker Rickie Lambert, 32, has emerged as an early transfer target for new Crystal Palace manager, Alan Pardew.
    (Guardian)


  • Aston Villa have opened talks with Manchester City about signing winger Scott Sinclair, 25.
    (Sky Sports)


  • Greek side Olympiakos have made an attempt to sign Liverpool's Italy striker Mario Balotelli, 24, on loan until the end of the season.
    (Daily Express)


  • Liverpool midfielder Suso, 21, is set to join AC Milan on a four-year deal, with the move likely to go through either in January or the summer.
    (Talksport)


  • Tottenham are ready to offer Emmanuel Adebayor, 30, to MLS clubs so they can refresh their strikeforce.
    (Times)


  • Manchester United look set to miss out on highly-rated Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard, 16, who may move to Real Madrid.
    ( Manchester Evening News )


  • Ipswich are set to sign Republic of Ireland striker Noel Hunt on Thursday on a free transfer. The 32-year-old, who was released by Leeds on Wednesday, had a loan spell at Portman Road earlier in the season.
    ( East Anglian Daily Times )


  • Arsenal are set to make a £4m move for 17-year-old midfielder Krystian Bielik, after a £2.4m bid was rejected by his Polish club Legia Warsaw earlier this week.
    (Sun)


  • Sunderland are one of a number of clubs looking at Celtic's £8m-rated centre-back Virgil van Dijk, 23.
    ( Newcastle Evening Chronicle )


  • Remi Garde, 48, is keen to join Newcastle United as the club's new head coach - and is hoping to speak to managing director Lee Charnley this week to confirm his interest in the position.
    (Northern Echo)




  • OTHER GOSSIP

  • Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe, whose side are top of the Championship, has no interest in succeeding Alan Pardew as manager of Newcastle United.
    (Talksport)


  • Ajax boss Frank De Boer is Newcastle's top target to replace Pardew, but the Dutchman will not take over at St James' Park until the summer.
    ( Daily Mirror )


  • Pardew may have left his job because he was told by the club's owner Mike Ashley that he is going to sell them.
    (Daily Telegraph)


  • Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, 34, reckons fellow midfielder Jordan Henderson, 24, is the perfect choice to become the club's next captain.
    (Sun)


  • The Premier League will start a week earlier next season to ensure fewer matches are played over the Christmas and New Year periods.
    ( Daily Star )


  • Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi has asked the side's players if they still want manager Stuart Pearce at the club after a run of only two wins in 19 games.
    (Daily Mail)


  • Former Everton winger Pat Nevin fears his old club will be in a relegation battle at the end of the season.
    ( Liverpool Echo )




  • AND FINALLY

  • Chelsea missed the chance to sign Eden Hazard for £100,000 when he was 16. The Belgium attacking midfielder, now 24, eventually joined the Blues for £32m in 2012.
    (Metro)


  • Brazil defender Dante is still the butt of jokes from his Bayern Munich team-mates over his country's 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat by Germany last summer.
    (Daily Mirror)






















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