Football Rumours Archive October 11 2009
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Old firm to join the premiership at the start of the 2012/2013 season
MAN CITY TRANSFER NEWS
Jan – OUTS. garrido/£2m Espanyol, benjani/£3m Blackburn, Robinho/Kompany Swap Plus £15m– see below
jan – INS Hernanes/£10m Sao Paulo, Ribery/£56m Munich, Henry/Ya Ya Toure/Dani Alves Swap
Phil Scolari to be next Liverpool Manager when takeover by the arabs is complete.
Walsall FC will be sold to David Sullivan by christmas. He is in no rush to buy the club and Bonser is in no rush to sell. He wants to be out by the end of the season.
Sullivan will give Hutchings to the end of the season. If things do not improve he, along with O'Conner, will be sacked and he will try to bring in a high profile manager.
There will be a 2 year plan (starting 2010–2011) to get Walsall into the championship. Within 4 years Sullivan will want Walsall to be a well astablished mid–table championship squad.
Wayne Bridge is wanted by bith Barcelona and Roma both expect to sign the England player.
Tottenham, Aston Villa and possibly even Man U will be interested in getting Beckham on loan if the Millan deal falls through.
Carlos Puyol will join Inter Milan not Arsenal or any other club. PUYOLS PAL.
There is a very good source telling me that franck ribery will be joining man utd in the summer for 45m. and also joining him will be david silva and RONALDINHO this is because fergie thinks he can get him to his best again.
Craig Bellamy is wanted by Italian side Inter Milan. Mourinho told me this news I know Jose hes a friend. MOURINHOS MATE.
Sullivan to buy Coventry.
Man City outs:
Pablo Zabaleta £4m– Sevilla
Javier Garrido £3m– Atletico Bilbao
Benjani £2m– Blackburn
Valeri Bojinov £3m permanent deal with Parma
Robinho £28m– Barcelona
Martin Petrov £5m– West Ham
TOTAL: £45M
ins:
David Bentley £10m
Liverpool outs:
Andras Simon £500k permanent deal
Charles Itandje £1m permanent deal
Vitor Flora £500k– Sao Paulo
Martin Hansen £500k– Stuttgart
Francisco Duran free– Sporting Gijon
David Martin £1m– Leicester City
Andriy Voronin £4m– Werder Bremen
Andrea Dossena £4.5m– Fiorentina
TOTAL: £12M
ins:
Stefan Jovetic £9m
Man City will offload Shaun Wright Phillips in January with Sunderland and West Ham set to battle it out for the players Signature. PREMIERAGENTMAN.
Aston Villa to look at Simon Davies' rehabilitation before deciding on making a move for him in January.
Jimmy Calderwood to Celtic also in January following Mowbrays inept organisation.
OMJ
Premier League clubs have been put on alert by a possible hitch in midfielder David Beckham's proposed loan move from LA Galaxy to AC Milan in January. Milan have been asked to pay the full value of Beckham's contract for his stay, around £70, 000 a week, but they do not want to give more than £40, 000.
Full story: News of the World
Milan want to swap Dutch striker Klaas–Jan Huntelaar with Tottenham forward Roman Pavlyuchenko.
Full story: News of the World
Portsmouth's David James wants to move to Tottenham to ensure that he goes into the 2010 World Cup finals as England's first–choice goalkeeper.
Full story: Sunday Telegraph
Manchester City manager Mark Hughes is monitoring midfielder Yossi Benayoun's situation at Liverpool as he prepares for the January transfer window.
Full story: News of the World
City forward Robinho could make a loan move to Barcelona in January, with the Manchester club hopeful that midfielder Yaya Toure will come in the opposite direction.
Full story: News of the World
Arsenal defender Gael Clichy is a £16m target for Real Madrid – the Frenchman's representatives have been contacted by the Spanish club with a view to a deal next summer.
Full story: News of the World
Former Barcelona, Liverpool and Chelsea midfielder Boudewijn Zenden is set to complete a move to Sunderland at the end of this week.
Full story: News of the World
Manchester United and Chelsea are checking on Brazil's 19–year–old Vasco da Gama midfielder Alex Teixeira Santos at the Under–20 World Cup in Egypt.
Full story: News of the World
United have stepped up their search for a top goalkeeper after losing faith in Ben Foster. (Sunday Express)
Sunderland manager Steve Bruce is keen to sign Newcastle left–back Jose Enrique.
Full story: News of the World
Bolton manager Gary Megson is preparing a bid of around £2m to sign Newcastle midfielder Alan Smith in January.
Full story: News of the World
A contractual dispute is hindering Portsmouth's efforts to sign Zimbabwe full–back Onismor Bhasera from South African side Kaizer Chiefs.
Full story: Sunday Times
Man City Breaking News
Micah set to leave City for Villa in January
Man City
Man city & Barcelona Representatives are currently meeting in Dubai to discuss the purchase of TWO players the obvious one is Yaya the Second being Carles Puyol
Yonathan Del Valle, the Venezuelan is a target for Burnley. He plays for Deportivo Táchira currently but Burnley have started talks about a £2m offer, due to his excellent performances at the World U20 Cup.
I believe this season, Berbatov will shine. But rumours of the arrival of David Villa, are great I'd love to see United play 4–3–3. Manuel Neur will be Uniteds New 1 and also David Silva will join because without David Villa, Valencia is nothing to him.
Milan will axe Klaas Jan Huntelaar in January. Arsenal and Tottenham interested.
Man City players in and out
Out.
Benjani – Portsmouth
Robinho – Barcelona
Petrov – Tottenham or Liverpool
In
Yaya Toure – Barcelona
Javier Mascherano – Liverpool
Franck Ribéry – Munich
Walsall will be having a press conference on monday to confirm that david sullivan is the new owner fisrt task is he will be sacking hutchings and replacing him with gary mccalister.
Premier league signings will be
arsenal chamack
villa cambell fulop and a new stricker
man u villa silva
man c toure.y
liverpool a new defender
RE: Liverpool investment
The Saudi Prince will only buy the club out and clear the debt if both Twit & Twt sell him all of their stake. If they do he will wipe all of our £200m–ish debt and invest, nowhere near as much as Man City. He will make a huge profit by marketing the club properly in the Middle East.
Scouse Pride
Man city Transfer Targets..
Javier Mascherano
Yaya Toure
Man Utd to buy CSKA Moscow goalie in January for around £10mill. He will play second fiddle to Van der sar until the end of the season when the Dutchman retires. He will then become goalkeeping coach with Eric Steele not being offered a new contract. Utd will also bid for David Villa in January and bid for Ribery with the Ronaldo money in the summer if he is still available.