Charlton are considering a move for Zheng Zhi, a 26-year-old midfielder and the bad boy of Chinese football. (Daily Mirror)

Nottingham Forest will try to lure veteran striker Dean Windass from Bradford City for �500,000. (Various)

QPR want to extend midfielder Jimmy Smith's loan from Chelsea until the end of the season. (Daily Mirror)

Paris St Germain are thought to be keen on a loan move for Man Utd's Argentine left-back Gabriel Heinze. (Daily Telegraph)

Liverpool have agreed a �1m deal with Boca Juniors for Argentina youth international Emiliano Insua, who will initially sign on loan. (Daily Telegraph, Independent)

Man City boss Stuart Pearce says contract rebel Sylvain Distin will not be sold in January. (Daily Star)

Blackburn are considering a move for Olympiakos forward Yiannakis Okkas. (Independent)

Crystal Palace want to extend the month-long loan of goalkeeper Iain Turner from Everton. (Independent)

Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon says they want to be recognised as the world's biggest football club by 2014. (Various)

Man Utd winger Cristiano Ronaldo claims Chelsea will fall apart when manager Jose Mourinho leaves the club. (Various)

The Portuguese has also branded Blues' duo Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko a waste of money. (Various)

David Beckham's Real Madrid future is still in doubt after a club director described his presence as a "ticking timebomb". (Various)

West Ham striker Carlos Tevez says Premiership defenders are "animals". (Daily Mirror)

Reading boss Steve Coppell has warned Stephen Hunt he will carry the baggage of his horror clash with Chelsea's Petr Cech for at least a year. (Daily Star)

Veteran defender David Unsworth has begged Sheff Utd boss Neil Warnock not to give him the boot from Bramall Lane. (Daily Star)

Liverpool keeper Jerzy Dudek will play against Galatasaray next month in the stadium where he helped the club win the Champions League in 2005. (Various)

Reds' striker Peter Crouch insists he can become the Anfield club's first 20-goal-a-season striker since Michael Owen. (Various)

Set-piece legend Matt Le Tissier has hailed Shunsuke Nakamura's winner for Celtic against Man Utd as the best free-kick ever scored. (Daily Record)

Reading chairman John Madejski has told long-serving midfielder Graeme Murty he will not get a testimonial as modern players are too well paid. (Daily Record)

Nancy Dell'Olio is the latest football "celebrity" to encounter problems at an airport check-in after she was told to remove her sunglasses, knee-length boots, leather jacket and belt at Heathrow and then had to hand over perfumes and make-up, despite her pleas that they were expensive. (Daily Mail)

Mexican legend Cuauhtemoc Blanco was surprised last week to read a newspaper story that he had died in a car accident. Fortunately for Blanco, it turned out to be nothing more than a "Falsa Alarma". (Daily Express)