West Ham will test Liverpool with a �6m bid for Wales striker Craig Bellamy. (Daily Express)

Chelsea are ready to end their search for a right-back by tabling a �10m bid for Sevilla's Brazilian Daniel Alves. (Daily Mirror)

Celtic are tracking Croatain striker Mladen Petric, who plays for Swiss side Basle. (Daily Star)

Gordon Strachan's side are also ready to snap up 17-year-old forward David Templeton from Stenhousemuir. (Scottish Sun)

Chris Perry is heading for the exit at West Brom after a bust-up with boss Tony Mowbray. (Daily Star)

Bolton's Ivan Campo is a transfer target for Athletic Bilbao. (Various)

Liverpool will not come close to Chelsea's level of spending despite a proposed �450m takeover of the club. (The Times)

David Beckham may struggle to get in the Real Madrid team but he is still the highest earning footballer in British football. Beckham has amassed a personal fortune of �87m, with the next highest Michael Owen on �32m. Robbie Fowler and Sol Campbell come next. (Various)

The same poll, from FourFourTwo magazine, says Roman Abramovich is comfortably the richest investor in British football. His personal fortune is �10.8bn, ahead of Joe Lewis at Tottenham (�2.1bn) and Dermot Desmond at Celtic (�1.25bn).

Sven-Goran Eriksson has been offered �5m a year to manage CSKA Sofia. (Daily Express)

Iain Dowie is top of Hull's wanted list to replace sacked manager Phil Parkinson. (Various)

Micah Richards almost missed out on his first England cap - by putting the phone down on Steve McClaren. "I'm just so glad he called back," said Richards. (The Sun)