Texan millionaire Ellis Short will complete a buy-out at Sunderland next week and hand a new manager, possibly Martin Jol or Steve McClaren, a £200m transfer budget to turn the Black Cats into a major force. (Full story: Sunday Express)

David Beckham could be on his way back to England with AC Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti hoping to take the midfielder with him in a switch to Chelsea. (Full story: Sunday Mirror)

Ferguson, while confident that United's recent success is enough to keep Ronaldo at the club, is resigned to losing Carlos Tevez over the summer. (Full story: Mail on Sunday)

Martin O'Neill has told Liverpool they will have to pay £10m if they want to successfully revive their interest in Gareth Barry, despite the midfielder having just one year left on his Aston Villa contract. (Full story: Sunday Mirror)

Rafael Benitez is closing in on a £15m deal to take Portsmouth and England defender Glen Johnson to Anfield. The Spaniard is also weighing up a bid for Heerenveen winger Daniel Pranjic. (Sunday Express)

The Norwegian Football Association is calling for a fresh inquiry into the 2005 dealings that took Jon Mikel Obi from FC Lyn to Chelsea via Manchester United. The midfielder signed an option agreement with United before announcing he wanted to move to Stamford Bridge. (Full story: Mail on Sunday)

Alan Shearer has already made summer signing plans with the Newcastle board and is set to commit himself to the Magpies regardless of the outcome of today's fight against the drop. (Full story: Sunday Express)

Patrice Evra has accused Arsenal players over attempting to injure him ahead of the Champions league final in revenge for his "men against babies" comments after United's semi-final victory at the Emirates. (Various)

Rafael Benitez has moved to end his feud with Sir Alex Ferguson by writing him a personal letter offering help and support while the Scot's grandson was being treated in Liverpool's Alder Hay hospital. (Full story: Sunday Mirror)

Arsenal's Andrey Arshavin wants to renegotiate his £80,000-a-week contract after complaining that British taxes swallow up half his salary. (Full story: Mail on Sunday)

Woah at the Sunderland takeover.

And, Beckham should head back to England, Ive been a massive fan since the 90's when i was a [size=1]manc[/size] fan

Edited by avy1990: 24/5/2009 09:08:56 PM

I'd like to think that's true, but I doubt it.

This is the first I've heard of the Sunderland take-over. Can Benj elaborate? Or is it news to him too?
10mil for Barry seems a little steep still, I still dont' think rafa should pay it. That said, if he's seriously going to spend 15mil on JOHNSON :-S

Poor Andrei can't live off 40k GBP a week?? WTF!?!?!!?

Are people honestly still surprised that Footballers are greedy as all hell? What rock have you been living under?

It is simple, Rafa can make up and kiss Alonso on the forehead, thererfore we dont need to worry about a replacement ie. Gareth Barry who is shit. We need a winger and a striker would be nice. If we got 20mil to spend than I think we need to buy more and sell less (for added depth). The only players we should sell are Lucas, Dossena and maybe Voronin.

There is No need for Johnson however...We can get Johnson for about 9mil because Pompey still owe us 7mil for Crouch transfer. I dont think we can afford any other players like Lennon or Silva -we had good depth this season, so why do we need them ?

...Also I am confident Tevez would be playing at Anfield next season.

You have certainly changed your tune you were all for Barry, Silva and Lennon a while ago

I know... Things have changed, the Yanks have no money and dont want out. Im hoping some Indian or Arab takeover the club and give us 40mil plus to spend and build the team...

It's taken you six months to learn something we all already knew. #-o

Gees that would be a bloody good double signing. Source?

Don't like Thiago Motta - he was hopless for Atletico, but Inter would benefit greatly from Milito.

Im actually a fan of Motta. Like the look of him at Barca, but was too injury prone, even at Madrid.

Milito will either be a huge success or a massive flop, ala David Suazo. Shame Acquafresca(ultimate name) keeps getting passed around. Hopefully he does great at Genoa.

Motta never got a chance to prove himself in Spain, he was practicaly in the Hospital ward the whole time for his stay at Atletico. In Italy he has excelled for Genoa and is still only young, I think that if he can perform for
Inter how he has at Genoa then he will be a shoe in for the WC squad

He'll be 27 in August, he's not that young really.

Yes, he has done really well with Genoa.

Dont know about the shoe in part though.

Motta probably wont start for Inter and he isn't the player that they need...They need a creative, attacking midfielder to help the supply. Milito should fit in well and give Zlatan the assistance he needs. They'll probably line up like this:


Btw Quaresma and Crespo are set to join Genoa and Diego has officially moved to Juve to be their second signing of the summer.

0950 BST: Chelsea have signed Russian international midfielder Yuri Zhirkov for $30m from CSKA Moscow according to Russian newspaper Tvoi Den. The tabloid claims Zhirkov will join on a four-year contract. (Russian tabloid Tvoi Den)

deco - Inter
Carvalho - Inter
Ivanovic - Inter/Milian/Juve
Quaresma - Genoa
Villa - Real Madrid

Shit it begins, thought it would be longer than this before signings as big as this were made.

BTW Mario Gomez joined Bayern a few days ago and they broke the signing record to get him there

Good piece of business.

Inter have all but sealed young Austrian international with serbian background Arnautovic from Twente for 9mill Euros....
Should be a good signing fukn disgraceful that serbia didnt want him!

It was only a matter of time before Chelsea or someone big made a move for Zhirkov, especially after the way Arshavin's been playing.

Missed that one. That's a huge deal, 30mil Euro.

Yeah for 30 mil it makes you wonder why they needed him with Toni and Klose but I suppose they arent spring chickens

Liverpool Players Tell Rafael Benitez To Sign Michael Owen


Michael Owen could be set for a shock return to Anfield, according to a report in the Sunday People.

The British tabloid claims that senior Liverpool players have urged manager Rafael Benitez to sign the Newcastle United striker who is out of contract at St James’ Park.

The players reportedly believe that Owen is worth a gamble, particularly as he is available on a free transfer, and that he would be warmly welcomed back to the club by the fans.

This would be a great move IMO, I think we can use him off the bench...

LINK - http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_headline=players-tell-rafa-benitez-bring-michael-owen-back%26method=full%26objectid=21402815%26siteid=93463-name_page.html



...Other good news today was that our Yank owners are looking to sell their baseball and ice hockey teams in america to focus fully on liverpool, they are also looking for investors to fund a new stadium at stanley park :d

Edited by jimsmith: 31/5/2009 07:49:31 PM

By the sounds of it Liverpool have pulled out of the race for Tevez if their after Owen. I can't see Liverpool playing a 3 pronged attack and i cant see Tevez, Torres or Owen being happy to settle as bench players

Torres would never be a benchie and we know what would happen if Tevez was one

Id like to see Owen at pool.

Im pretty sure Owen wont mind being on the bench, we can use him as a super sub and more importantly as a decent injury replacement for when torres is injured.

Owen has also been linked to Spurs, where I dont see him getting much game time ahead of other good forwards.

He has suprisingly been linked to Everton, IMO this will never happen - Liverpool - Everton, you know the rivalry...

Tevez and Barry just got signed by Man city. for 42 million so thats 208 Million they have left this summer. LOL. Ridiculous. it also looks like they will be going for Eto and Kaka yet again. They will probably get Eto, but i think a KaKa move is more likely than before.

Edited by seriously: 31/5/2009 09:41:46 PM

Id rather Man City have Tevez then Liverpool, Tevez at Liverpool would scare me, they'd be much much stronger

They didnt just get signed you fool. Its been reportd on Goal and Tribalfootball. How reputable :roll:

In any case, its not being reported by sky or BBC, therefore it hasnt happened yet. I hope they sign Barry, cause I dont want him here.