Arsenal are weighing up a �6m summer swoop for Ajax winger Ryan Babel. (Daily Mirror)

Fulham are targeting Manchester City defender Sylvain Distin. (Daily Mirror)

Chelsea will recall striker Hernan Crespo from his loan spell at Inter Milan in the summer. (Daily Express)

Leicester are poised to sign former Celtic and Aston Villa winger Didier Agathe on a free. (Daily Mirror)

Bolton are favourites to sign highly-rated Crystal Palace midfielder Tom Soares. (Daily Mirror)

Portsmouth want West Ham midfielder Yossi Benayoun. (Daily Mail)

Valencia striker David Villa says he is flattered that Liverpool and Chelsea want to sign him. (Daily Star)

Rangers will sign St Mirren defender Kirk Broadfoot on Tuesday on a pre-contract agreement. (Daily Record)

Gretna have moved to take Hibernian goalkeeper Zibi Malkowski on emergency loan. (Daily Express)

West Ham boss Alan Curbishley's strict new regime includes a ban on playing cards and fines if players are late for training. (Sun)

West Ham will axe 16 players in the summer. (Daily Express)

Among them will be Anton Ferdinand, Nigel Reo-Coker, Dean Ashton, Carlos Tevez and Lucas Neill - but Matthew Upson will stay. (The Sun)

Hammers chairman Eggert Magnusson may also be on his way in the summer as the club's owners are unhappy with his running of the club. (Daily Express)

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has been told he can have the cash to sign the best players in Europe in the summer. (The Sun)

England coach Steve McClaren was already going off the idea of recalling David Beckham even before the Real Madrid man was injured. (Daily Mail)

Reading striker Dave Kitson is poised to sign a new three-year contract. (Daily Mirror)

Manchester United have ruled out any last-ditch attempt to keep Henrik Larsson at Old Trafford. (Daily Mail)

Celtic defender Stephen McManus has vowed to play through the pain of a groin injury to face AC Milan. (Daily Mail)

Wolves defender Jackie McNamara is set to be recalled for Scotland's Euro 2008 qualifiers against Georgia and Italy. (Daily Express)

Arsenal and Chelsea's reserves staged a re-run of the Carling Cup final brawl in a match at Aldershot on Monday. The flashpoint came when Mart Poom dropped a corner. This time, there were no red cards, only bookings for Arsenal's Gavin Hoyte and Chelsea's Ben Sahar and Sam Hutchinson. (Sun)