Football rumours from today's newspapers

• Xabi Prieto, Real Sociedad's £10m-rated Spanish winger, is on Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish's summer wish list.
  (The Sun)


• Arsenal are to call Gael Clichy in for make-or-break contract talks. They fear the left-back will not stay at the Emirates and have pinpointed Celtic's Emilio Izaguirre as a potential replacement.
  (Daily Mail)


• Striker Dimitar Berbatov will be a target for German side Bayern Munich if the 30-year-old's contract talks continue to stall at Manchester United.
  (talkSPORT)


• Tottenham are ready to pay £5m to bring 29-year-old Liverpool midfielder Joe Cole to White Hart Lane.
  (caughtoffside)


• Real Madrid will need to pay £21.8m to sign Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini, who is also a target for Chelsea.
  (caughtoffside)


• Tottenham, Liverpool and Everton are chasing Real Madrid's 24-year-old Argentine midfielder Fernando Gago, who could cost £10m.
  (talkSPORT)


• Manchester City want to sign 24-year-old Wolves keeper Wayne Hennessey as competition for 23-year-old Joe Hart.
  (The Mirror)


• Striker Craig Bellamy says he will return to Manchester City next season following a term on loan at Cardiff from Eastlands.
  (The Mirror)


• Juventus are set to swoop for Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez, 27, and his Argentina colleagues Sergio Aguero of Atletico Madrid and Javier Mascherano of Barcelona.
  (talkSPORT)


• Everton tell Liverpool to forget about trying to sign defender Leighton Baines. The 26-year-old England international has a contract at Goodison Park until 2015.
  (talkSPORT)


• Fulham midfielder Zoltan Gera, a free agent this summer, is already being tracked by clubs in Italy and Spain.
  (The Mirror)

• Manchester United goalkeeping coach Eric Steele went on a scouting mission to Germany on Sunday because transfer targets Manuel Neuer of Schalke and Rene Adler of Bayer Leverkusen played against each other.
  (The Mirror)


• Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand rang reinstated England captain John Terry to tell him that he has no problem with the Chelsea defender taking over the role he had taken away from him by national manger Fabio Capello.
  (The Sun)


• Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany has promised that this season the club will not lose their nerve in the battle to qualify for an automatic Champions League spot.
  (The Mirror)


• Carlos Tevez would have risked missing the rest of the season had he played for Manchester City against Chelsea with a muscle injury on Sunday. The Argentine forward is now expected to return in two to three weeks.
  (Daily Telegraph)


• Ahead of their Euro 2012 qualifying match, Wales forward Craig Bellamy has mocked the expectations heaped on England players while blaming pressure for their poor World Cup.
  (The Mirror)


• Fitness permitting, England boss Capello would like to start Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney with Liverpool forward Andy Carroll against Wales on Saturday.
  (Daily Mail)

• Vietnam veteran General Charles Krulak, who is the right-hand man to Aston Villa club owner Randy Lerner, has issued a rallying cry for the club to survive relegation from the Premier League this season.
  (The Sun)


• Wolves winger Matt Jarvis phoned the restaurant his parents were eating in to tell them of his England call-up. "Fortunately they were there so I was able to tell them the news," said the 24-year-old.
  (Metro)


• The chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, wants to tackle dissent with a five-yard exclusion zone around referees and the introduction of sin bins.
  (Daily Telegraph)


• Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has joked he would rather play behind 48-year-old youth team coach Steve Bould than any of the club's current centre-halves. He also branded striker Nicklas Bendtner "arrogant" and fellow stopper Jens Lehmann "still a nutcase".
  (Daily Star)