Football Rumours Archive March 26 2007
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Preston goalkeeper Carlo Nash will definitely join West Ham United at the end of the season.
Southend striker Freddie Eastwood is also set for Upton Park in what could be a £3.5 million move.
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Simao Sabrosa will join Chelsea in the summer from Benfica.
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Anelka, Alves and Villa to Liverpool Lfc
Everton will sign West Ham midfielder Nigel Reo-coker for 7m in the summer but by the way I'm a true blue and even I would find it hard to believe that Everton will sign Mancini (hope so though) also I'm sorry to report still that Arsenal and Tottenham will come in for Andy Johnson for around 15m David Nugent will sign for around 5-7m Everton will sign an other foward if Johnson really does leave Everton will try and sign Mark viduka if both Johnson and Beattie move on (Beattie if a cert to move) with Bolton Villa and Middlesbrough interested also a cert to move on is Andy van der meyde he will return to Holland with the likes of PSV and FC Twente interested also Juventus might come in
Rumour has it Newcastle have no money fact is owen is back soon and we have a new strip out so Freddy won't fail and we'll attract at least one big player probably Crouch and they don't come bigger than that also watch out for Wes Brown / John o'shea and local lad Gary bates
Celtic Rumours.
INS:
Sylvain Distin - Free
Michael Lamey - Free
Steve Sidwell - Free
Demy De Zeeuw - £3. 5m
James McFadden - Swap (K. Miller)
Robbie Keane - £6m or Craig Bellamy - £6m
OUTS:
Paul Telfer
Bobo Balde
Neil Lennon
Tommy Gravesen
Jiri Jarosik
Kenny Miller
Youngsters signing:
Tomislav Pavlov - signed
James McCarthy - signed
Marian Pop - signed
there are 6 other young foreigners on trial this week also
With Bale and Nani arriving at White Hart Lane Spurs need to recoup some cash and will sell Berbatov, Man Utd and Liverpool lead the chase. manU will also add Queresma and Hargreaves. Newcastle are keen on defenders Wes Brown and Curtis Davies. They will also sign Leighton Baines and Dave Nugent.
Jloyd Samuel will join Bolton from Aston Villa in the summer.
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Juventus are favourites to land Ajax super striker, Klaas Jan Huntelaar on return to Serie A despite interest from Liverpool, Manchester United, Inter Milan and AC Milan. The Dutch striker is very keen to move into Italian move although he also aspires to play in the Premiership. Expect the striker to definitely end a hugely succesful 18 month spell at Ajax this summer.
AND almost certainly expect Ajax to replace the young striker with Portsmouth striker, Nwankwo Kanu.
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Arsenal want to sign Leighton Baines from Wigan. Liverpool and Everton are also interested.
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Aidy Boothroyd will keep all of his players together for next seasons Championship campaign although of course he will lose Ben Foster. Manchester United may loan Watford, keeper Tomas Kuszczak for next season. Meanwhile Danny Shittu is the only player wanted by top flight clubs with Birmingham set to show interest if they gain promotion and Sheffield United and Fulham are also set to show interest.
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Sheffield United boss Neil Warnock will sign David Healy from Leeds United in the summer and re-United him with his ex Leeds strike partner Rob Hulse. Expect Warnock to bid around £1 million for the 27 year old striker.
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Newcastle will make enquiries about Wes Brown, Silvestre and John O'Shea of Man U, Lucas Neill, Matthew Upson, Anton Ferdinand of West Ham, Curtis Davies of West Brom, Gareth Bale of saouthampton, Leighton Baines of Wigan and Jonny Woodgate of Boro in an effort to sort out the defense. Obviously won't be signing them all but he has been making enquiries for them.
He will also make a move Giles Barnes of Derby in midfield with a contratct put forward for Steve Sidwell as well.
Up front they will or already have been enquiring about Robbie Keane, Ryan Babel, Dean Ashton, Klass Jan Huntelaar and Louis Saha.
Possible Squad
Given/ Harper/ Krul
Niell/ Brown
Ferdinand/ Davies
Woodgate/ Taylor
Baines/ O'Shea
Milner/ Solano
Parker/ Dyer/ Butt
Emre/ Sidwell
Duff/ N'Zogbia
Martins/ Keane
Owen/ Ameobi/ Sibieski
Sir Alex Ferguson will not be signing a huge striker as Saha and Rooney is his first choice strike partnership. He will sign either Tevez, Defoe or even Ashton. Ferguson however will spend in the midfield. He may buy Nani but he is actually set to sign either Wesley Sneijder or Deco. Klaas Jan Huntelaar is also a possible target.
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Werder Bremens talented midfielder Diego is on his way to Real Madrid instead for the transfer of Kaka
Some true Arsenal rumours,
Arsenal have apparently agreed on moving Frank Ribery to the Emirates. his agent confirmed they snubbed a move to Madrid for the Gunners for obvious reasons. Taye taiwo could also be join from Marseille. He is a goal scoring left back.
Ljungberg out, babtista out, Song on loan, Ribery in, Robinho in, Aliadiarre out, Eto'o in
Gunnerss :
The English version (my translation)
For quite some time Lorik Cana has been an objective for some of the largest European clubs. There is a huge possibility that this summer, he will make a giant leap by donning the shirt of one of European giants. His outstanding quailities and good physical condition, has made him one of the hottest topics in French media transfer talks.
The rumours paper has a confirmed source close to the footballer, and he states that Arsenal has already made a concrete offer to have him in "Emirates" for the next season. "It was Arsène Wenger himself, who was personally interested for the Albanian talent, who is having a brilliant season at Marseille. For quite some time, Arsenal has started talks with Cana's manager Agim Cana (Lorik's father) and they want him to be at Arsenal in the next season. The Gunners manager expressed admiration for Cana's display in French League and his physical build-up. "
The only remaining detail before a possible transfer for the 24-yr. old defensive midfielder, is the financial side. Cana has asked for a monthly salary of 200.000 €, and if English side accept this deal, then it's only a matter of time before talks will be finished.
Djimi Traore will leave Portsmouth after moving to Fratton Park in January and make his 3rd move in just over a year by joining West Ham United who will most likely be in the Championship, despite Premiership side Sheffield United set to be interested.
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Sammi Hyypia is Chris Coleman's number 1 target at Fulham this summer with Rafa Benitez favouring Danish defender Daniel Agger alongside Jamie Carragher. Expect Newcastle and Fulham both to attempt to sign the ex-skipper and tough Liverpool centre back.
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Tottenham signings:
In
zigic 8 milliom
bale 10 million
barnes 4 million
C. Davies 6 million + gardner
henri saviet 2 million
Adel taraabt 2 million permanent deal
Out
Ziegler 3 million
gardner excahnge for Davies
mido 4 million
Murphy 2 million
37 year old striker, Kevin Campbell could leave Cardiff after just a year at the Bluebirds and join former club Nottingham Forest at the end of the season on a free transfer.
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Lilian Thuram could leave Barcelona after just 1 year at the Nou Camp with Fiorentina and Inter Milan interested in prising him to Italy.
Everton rumours:
Forget about Nugent, that story is just a scapegoat - ever noticed how many times Nugent says he wants to play for us but Everton nevermake a comment. We will sign 3 high quality foreign signings in the summer:
Kim Kallstrom - £8m (cheaper than Manny)
Mancini - £5. 5m
Frederik Piquionne £3.5m St. Etienne
Everton will possibly sign a left back either leighton baines 6m or j loyd Samuel for free a left middfielder will also be signed possibly Mancini for 5m as Andy van der meyde is leaving and Everton need a left mid Nugent will also be signed for 6m and so will Joey Barton for the same price and Manuel fernandes will be signed to
Team next year
gk-Howard
lb-Baines/ j loyd Samuel/ valente
rb-P Neville
cb-LeScott
cb-Yobo
rm-Arteta
lm-mancini
cm-fernandes
cm-barton
amf-Cahill
cf-Johnson
bench - Turner Stubbs Valente/Jlloyd Samuel/ Baines Osman Nugent
this will come to a possible total of 30m with Moyes getting 20m from the board and the 10m coming from the sales of - Beattie 4-5m can der meyde - 2.5m Carsley 1m Mcfadden 2m wright 500k Naysmith 1m all coming to a possible total of 11m
24 year old Moritz Volz may leave Fulham in the summer and join rivals Tottenham or Bayer Leverkusen in Germany.
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