Manchester City boss Mark Hughes insists he is still in charge of transfer policy at the club, and will go back to Blackburn with a final bid for striker Roque Santa Cruz before the transfer window closes. (Daily Mail)
However, Hughes is not impressed that Rovers are asking �20m for the Paraguayan. (Daily Mail)
Having brought Emile Heskey to Villa Park, Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill will now try to lure Michael Owen from Newcastle. (Various)
Zenit St Petersburg playmaker Andrei Arshavin may go on strike if he does not end up getting his move to Arsenal this month. The Gunners faxed over their final offer on Friday. (Guardian)
Niko Kranjcar expects to leave Portsmouth in the summer, with Arsenal the probable destination. (Sun)
Sunderland are in talks with Tottenham Hotspur over a swap deal which would bring Kenwyne Jones to White Hart Lane in return for �6m plus Darren Bent. (Daily Mail)
Failing that, Spurs will go after Carlton Cole from West Ham, but the Hammers have told Harry Redknapp not to bother with a new bid having rejected an �8m offer. (Independent)
Having sold Craig Bellamy, West Ham have moved to sign Uganda-born striker Savio Nsereko from Brescia. The �9m signing will be unveiled on Monday. (Sun)
Bolton are trying to sign Sporting Lisbon star Miguel Veloso for �12m. (Daily Mirror)
Wigan are out to beat Middlesbrough to the signature of Crystal Palace midfielder Ben Watson. (Daily Mail)
Watson himself expects to move to Wigan. (Times)
Chelsea are hoping the return of Deco will act like a January signing, with manager Luiz Felipe Scolari now expected to wait until the summer to bring in new players. (Guardian)
Serbian Branislav Ivanovic expects to leave Chelsea for Fiorentina. (Sun)
Joining Ivanovic on the list of Chelsea players possibly bound for Italy is Florent Malouda, who has aroused the interest of Juventus. (Daily Express)
Leeds are demanding �8m for midfielder Fabian Delph, with Fulham desperate to sign him as a replacement for Jimmy Bullard. (Daily Mirror)
Walter Smith wants to sell at least one star player to balance the books at Rangers this month, but has warned the club not to panic if it doesn't happen. (Guardian)
Everton's Mikel Arteta has played down speculation linking him to Arsenal and Man City. (Sun)
David Beckham will turn his back on life in the US and make his move to AC Milan permanent. (Daily Mail)
Hearts are preparing to sell captain Christophe Berra and Micheal Stewart for a combined �5m with renewed interest from clubs in Germany and Italy. (The Express)
Celtic striker Georgios Samaras has urged the club to sign former team-mate Ched Evans from Manchester City. (Various)
The Football Association will move quickly to resolve a loophole in its regulations that allows clubs to play extra time at the end of drawn ties, and avoid a replay. (Various)
Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are facing the prospect of striking a deal for the club worth �110m less than it would have been last July, as they try to sell to Kuwaiti billionaire Nasser al-Kharafi. (Guardian)
Meanwhile, Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has been kept in the dark over the negotiations. (Sun)
Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho says he has not been approached to take over at Manchester City. (Daily Telegraph)
Robinho will sit down with Manchester City boss Mark Hughes and demand to know which players City intend to sign before the end of January, as his concerns grow about the club's ambitions. (Independent)
Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate insists he will not walk away from his job at the Riverside. (Daily Mail)
Harry Redknapp insists he was misunderstood when he was quoted as saying he would pick his weakest Spurs team to face Manchester United in the FA Cup. (Various)
Kettering chairman Imraan Ladak believes the decision not to show their FA Cup clash with Fulham on TV will rob the non-league outfit of the cash they needed to reach the Football League. (Daily Mail)
BBC Sport's Gary Lineker would rather have his ears pinned back - or stop eating crisps - than take the England manager's job. (Times)
Players joining British teams from outside the European Union will be given a year to learn English and pass an exam on the basics, under new immigration rules which come into force this autumn. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has given the scheme his backing. (Times)
The Kuwaiti al-Kharafi dynasty of prospective Liverpool owners made their money from burgers and fast food. (Guardian)
Aston Villa midfielder Gareth Barry is now relying on best mate and former team-mate, Michael Standing, to represent him after parting with long-term agent Alex Black. (Birmingham Mail)
Man City boss Mark Hughes says he was "cheering every goal" when Burnley took a 3-0 lead over Spurs in the Carling Cup, in the hope that Tottenham might then take over from City as the crisis club du jour.
Harry Redknapp forgot the name of Tottenham's back-up goalkeeper for their FA Cup tie with Manchester United. It later transpired that when Redknapp had said "a young Italian kid" would be on the bench, he meant 16-year-old Mirko Ranieri. (Daily Express)
E-mail this to a friend 
Printable version 
Bookmark with:
What are these?