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Football News & Gossip .. Sunday Dec 28th


THE MAIL
•John Terry will sign a one-year extension to his Chelsea contract after Jose Mourinho revealed that it is now "a formality". ..
•Arsenal are preparing to go back to Sporting Lisbon with a £20million offer for Portugal holding midfielder William Carvalho.
•Chelsea have confirmed that striker Fernando Torres has been bought on a permanent basis by AC Milan - but will join Atletico Madrid on loan from January.
•Crystal Palace have a wide-ranging list of possible candidates to replace manager Neil Warnock, who was sacked on Saturday. The list includes Derby's Steve McClaren, ex-Porto boss Vitor Pereira and former Palace players Tony Popovic and Gareth Southgate.
•Manchester City continue to look in to the viability of signing Lionel Messi.
•Roberto Martinez is the next Premier League manager who faces the axe with Steve McClaren being lined up to replace him at Everton.
•Inter Milan are hopeful of concluding a loan deal for Chelsea winger Mohamed Salah. The Italian giants are also keen to sign Lukas Podolski but Arsenal would prefer to loan them 21-year-old French striker Yaya Sanogo.
•Manchester United will activate a one-year extension of Michael Carrick's £130,000-a-week contract to keep the midfielder at Old Trafford beyond the summer.
•Manchester United midfielder Nick Powell, 20, is in discussions over a loan move to Bolton.
•QPR boss Harry Redknapp is ready to offer Andros Townsend an escape route out of White Hart Lane, where he has fallen out of favour this season.
•Hamburg have joined Nice by showing interest in Newcastle winger Hatem Ben Arfa who is free to leave the north-east after failing to impress on loan at Hull City.

THE SUN
•Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish will beg Tony Pulis to return to the club.
•Everton want to lift Adrian Januzaj, 19, out of his Old Trafford frustration. Goodison boss Roberto Martinez is confident of signing the Belgian on loan in January.
•Arsenal's Tomas Rosicky, 34, is a target for Olympiakos. The Greeks want the Czech for a knockdown £2m in January.
•Sunderland want Gus Poyet to sign a new contract but he will look for more power to buy players before agreeing to any deal.
•Southampton could make a January move for Blackburn striker Jordan Rhodes, 24.
•Swansea boss Garry Monk has put Seville's Timothee Kolodziejczak top of his emergency hit list. Monk's spies have reopened the file on the French left-back as they fear losing Neil Taylor, who interests Crystal Palace.
•Derby boss Steve McClaren wants CSKA Moscow's giant Czech striker Tomas Necid, who is on loan at Dutch side Zwolle.
•Bolton manager Neil Lennon wants a reunion with Celtic's Kris Commons, 31, in a pre-contract swoop. Lennon can talk to the winger from New Year's Day and is ready to offer him a two-year deal.

SUNDAY MIRROR
•Real Madrid are demanding David De Gea in part-exchange if Manchester United want to sign Gareth Bale.
•Former Crystal Palace captain Tony Popovic is being lined up to replace Neil Warnock at Selhurst Park.
•Manchester City's plan to keep Frank Lampard at the Etihad has hit New York City's season-ticket sales.
•Newcastle will have to pay off outcast Hatem Ben Arfa's contract to stop the French winger from returning to St James' Park after Hull ended the 27-year-old's loan spell early.
•Arsene Wenger is set to make a shock move for St Etienne captain Loic Perrin in the winter transfer window.
•Vedran Corluka is on the verge of returning to the Premier League with West Ham, Southampton, Hull and Everton monitoring the Croatia defender's situation at Lokomotiv Moscow. The Russians want around £4.8m for him.
•Paul Ince is poised to return to football at Leyton Orient to assist manager Fabio Liverani.
•Chelsea have confirmed that AC Milan will sign Fernando Torres on a permanent deal when the transfer window opens next month.

THE PEOPLE
•West Ham will listen to loan offers for striker Mauro Zarate.
•Arsenal and Tottenham are among a number of top-flight clubs sending scouts to watch Barnsley defender Mason Holgate.
•Manchester United are tracking young Brazilian forward Gabriel Barbosa.

SUNDAY STAR
•Liverpool are planning are £15m double raid for Aston Villa pair Fabian Delph and Ron Vlaar.
•Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal is ready to rescue Nemanja Vidic from his Inter Milan hell.
•Chelsea are ready to offer John Terry a new one year, £175,000-a-week deal.
•Italian giants Roma and Inter are locked in a tussle land unhappy Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski, 29.
•Chelsea are lining up a bargain up a bargain £6m swoop for Spanish wonderkid Dani Ceballos, 18, from Real Betis.
•QPR boss Harry Redknapp is trying to sign midfielder Cristian Rodriguez, 29, from Atletico Madrid.
•Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is ready to bid £20m to land Celtic defender Virgil van Dijk, 23.
•James Milner would love to sit round the festive table - and tuck into a juicy new contract.

SUNDAY EXPRESS
•James Milner has told Manchester City to come up with a contract to prevent him from walking away on a free transfer in the summer.
•Mario Balotelli is staying put on Merseyside - despite rumours of a move abroad - according to Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers.
•Tim Sherwood last night emerged as favourite to take over as Crystal Palace manager after Neil Warnock became the first Premier League boss to be fired this season.
•Real Madrid will insist that Manchester United include David De Gea in a deal for Gareth Bale in the summer.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
•West Ham co-owner David Sullivan admits that he could lose manager Sam Allardyce at the end of the season - when his current deal runs out - because the chairman wants to stick to his policy of not negotiating with a manager until the summer.
•Tottenham look poised to get the January transfer window rolling with a bid of more than £10 million for West Brom striker Saido Berahino but it does not look like it will be a busy month of big-money deals in the Premier League.
•Nick Powell is heading back to Manchester United after Nigel Pearson opted to rip up his loan deal at Leicester City.

THE INDEPENDENT
•Manchester United are ready to let Adnan Januzaj leave on loan, with Paris Saint-Germain emerging as the club where the 19-year-old believes he will be playing from next month.

[Part-Timer]

I think Moaniniou learnt his lesson with Lampard

[Tony2005]

Liverpool are planning are £15m double raid for Aston Villa pair Fabian Delph and Ron Vlaar.

Thats £8 million of it spent who is getting the other £7m............

QPR boss Harry Redknapp is ready to offer Andros Townsend an escape route out of White Hart Lane, where he has fallen out of favour this season.

Bloody hell Harry is offering more people escape routes then Steve McQueen ....

Sunderland want Gus Poyet to sign a new contract but he will look for more power to buy players before agreeing to any deal.

So that means he WONT be signing another deal then....

Real Madrid are demanding David De Gea in part-exchange if Manchester United want to sign Gareth Bale.

So thats De Gea the rights to David Beckham and £150m......

Manchester City's plan to keep Frank Lampard at the Etihad has hit New York City's season-ticket sales.

By 20 as not many yanks will know him anyway ....."And stop calling it soccer".................

Mario Balotelli is staying put on Merseyside - despite rumours of a move abroad - according to Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers.

He will be working in Quick Fit but still living in Liverpool..........

West Ham co-owner David Sullivan admits that he could lose manager Sam Allardyce at the end of the season - when his current deal runs out - because the chairman wants to stick to his policy of not negotiating with a manager until the summer

Translated that means.......Even we cant believe how well we are doing but we all know it wont last and we can get rid of him for nothing at the end of the season .............