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TRANSFER RUMOURS

 

Bayern Munich midfielder Owen Hargreaves' move to Manchester United looks closer as he is photographed with an official from the English club. (The Sun)

 

Ashley Cole is likely to start the season with Arsenal as there is no sign of Chelsea meeting the north Londoners' valuation of £25m. (The Independent)

 

However, manager Arsene Wenger could leave Cole out the squad to take on Aston Villa on Saturday to prevent the left-back receiving a hostile reception from the club's fans. (The Sun, Daily Mirror)

 

Tottenham could go for Fulham's Luis Boa Morte if a £8m swoop for Atletico Madrid's Martin Petrov fails. (Daily Mirror)

 

Sunderland are in talks for Celtic midfielder Didier Agathe. (The Sun)

 

Real Madrid have cooled on a move for Jose Reyes because Arsenal are asking for £16.5m. (The Sun)

 

Newcastle are chasing £6m-rated Zenit St Petersburg striker Alexander Kerzhakov.( Daily Mirror, Daily Mail)

 

Marcos Senna is ready to commit to Villareal after Manchester United's interest turned to Owen Hargreaves. (The Independent)

 

Wolves have failed in their bid to sign Lee Carsley from Everton. (Daily Star)

 

Scotland and England are aiming to secure the international services of Manchester United defender Phil Bardsley, who is qualified to play for both countries. (Daily Record)

 

Bolton boss Sam Allardyce is after PSV striker Jan Venegoor of Hesselink. (The Sun)

 

Ghana and Udinese midfielder Sulley Muntari is wanted by Portsmouth for £9m. (Daily Mirror)

 

Hearts want to sign Lithuanian midfielder Andrius Bartkus from FK Atlantas. (Daily Record)

 

 

OTHER GOSSIP

 

Chelsea want the FA to boot former chairman Ken Bates out of football for alleged racism. (Various)

 

FUNNIES

 

Owen Hargreaves must be on the way to Old Trafford as the same security guard that escorted Michael Carrick to Manchester United last month is pictured in the Sun doing the same with the Bayern Munich midfielder.

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6 million for a russian striker...seems a bit much. The russian league aint exactly the height of football really....

 

Never heard of the lad tho but 6 million for an unknown = BAD MOVE imo

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He's scored something like 90-odd in 190-odd so he obviously knows where the net is. I find it funny though that having watched Kuyt umpteen times and still not really known whether we wanted him, we're now turning our attention to a Russian we've presumably barely seen play. :(

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I don't think there's many of us who can comment on whether this would be a good move or not given that we haven't go a clue what he's like.

I would say though that I've always thought that your better off going for players from eastern Europe as oppose to ones from a warmer climate as they will find it a bit easier to cope with being in this country. Although as there aren't many players who have came here from there I don't really have anything to back that up.

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I was in Liverpool yesterday and talking to a couple of Scousers. Said they didnt want Kuyt, and certainly not for £10M. What people have seen of him dont seem to have been impressed.

 

At the moment, my line of thinking is that for £5M or under, we need to take a risk. Mind you, Im also thinking why didnt we go for Hasslebaink, though I suppose GR maybe thought he would have had a striker by now.

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Mind, wernt we playing him up front on his own as well for periods? Cant remember now. Just that is what when we had our Tomasson, Ansersson, Guivarch, Kitson period.

 

Bit like we're prob gonna have now.

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I was in Liverpool yesterday and talking to a couple of Scousers.  Said they didnt want Kuyt, and certainly not for £10M.  What people have seen of him dont seem to have been impressed.

 

At the moment, my line of thinking is that for £5M or under, we need to take a risk.  Mind you, Im also thinking why didnt we go for Hasslebaink, though I suppose GR maybe thought he would have had a striker by now.

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We'll be taking a risk if we don't...

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6 million for a russian striker...seems a bit much. The russian league aint exactly the height of football really....

 

Never heard of the lad tho but 6 million for an unknown = BAD MOVE imo

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Out of interest, are you someone who would advocate the signing of a championship player for £4-5 million?

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I was in Liverpool yesterday and talking to a couple of Scousers.  Said they didnt want Kuyt, and certainly not for £10M.  What people have seen of him dont seem to have been impressed.

 

At the moment, my line of thinking is that for £5M or under, we need to take a risk.  Mind you, Im also thinking why didnt we go for Hasslebaink, though I suppose GR maybe thought he would have had a striker by now.

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It's been said before, but we really should have signed Hasselbaink. We could do with him now.

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Already in the days Ronny Gill saying "Not gonna happen".

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Isn't it about time Mr. Face-like-a-smashed-cinema-seat told us what IS going to happen instead of using his back page exclusives to deny rumours printed in other papers!?

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Already in the days Ronny Gill saying "Not gonna happen".

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Isn't it about time Mr. Face-like-a-smashed-cinema-seat told us what IS going to happen instead of using his back page exclusives to deny rumours printed in other papers!?

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