Football Rumours

Arda Turan to Arsenal is a done deal. Reliable source in Turkey has told me. TRUST me





From a very reliable source– transfer merry–go–round
C. Ronaldo – Real Mardrid (35 million + Robinho)
Santa Cruz – Man United ( £7.5 million + Saha)
Lahm – Man United – 14 mil
Cisse – Blackburn (7 million)
Hleb – FC Barcelona (8 million + Yaya Toure)
Nasri – Arsenal (14 mil) – nearly done deal
Silva – Arsenal (19 mil)
Bentdner – Roma (6.5 mil)
Kompany – Arsenal (11 million)
Bentley– Liverpool (15 million)
Alonso – Juve (13.5 million)
Bennayoun – Tottenham (6 million)
Berbatov – Liverpool (21 million)

One final one which is a dead cert. Andy Johnson is joining Aston Villa for £9 million – expect Everton to replace him with Ebanks–Blake (4.5 million) and Gomis (10 million)

Birmingham City – Sebastian Larsson has told Alex McLeish that he wants to continue playing in the Premier League, he has a Clause in his contract allowing him to leave if BC were relegated and a certain fee is matched. McLeish wants to retain his best players to aid a return to the top–flight at the first attempt but he is a little powerless; as a result BC have been touting Larsson to a number of Premier League teams for a season–long loan deal – namely Stoke, Hull City, Wigan and Bolton so far – whether this will satisfy the player remains to be seen.





Moving away from that, players on their way to Arsenal are:
Nasri £16 million
Ben Arfa £11 million
Arshavin £15 million

Out
Adebayor – Milan £27 million
Hleb – FC Barcelona £15 million
Hoyte – Villa £2 million
Eboue – Swap deal for a set of socket spanners

West Brom have had a accepted bid from newcastle to sign striker Shola Ameobi. The deal is about to be worth 3m.

Bentley is joining Liverpool – He's got really good mates who live in the City and is a regular at the Croc pub on Harrington street of a Sunday; saw one of his mates there Sunday just gone and he told me it is a done deal.

I have inside knowledge that the Hammers signings this year will be

out–

Freddie

nol solano–Pompey

bobby Zamora–Queens Park Rangers

Bellamy–on dodgy ground

anton Ferdinand–villa

green– the Arsenal

boa morte– portugal

in– –

shorey from Reading

harper from Reading

doyle from Reading

Foster on loan from Man United

swp from Chelsea

Joe Lewis

and an unnamed centre half

After signing Steve Sidwell Villa will get

Paul Robinson £5 million

Pascal Chimbonda £4 million

Nickey Shorey £3.5 million

David Bentley £15 million

Peter Crouch £10 million

Also they will reject any bids from Liverpool for Gareth Barry

Leeds United transfers:

In:

Robinson (Swansea)

Riordan (Celtic)

Shelton (Sheff United)

Hackney (Carlisle)

Whelpdale (Peterborough)

Sheehan (Leicester)

Talbot or Griffiths (Port Vale or Dagenham and Redbridge)

Francis (Southend)

Dyer (MK Dons)

Out:

Elding (Hartlepool)

Westlake (Leicester–swap)

Kandol (Millwall)

Carole (Châteauroux)

Parker (Hudersfield–Loan)

Kenton (Colchester)

Sweeney (Leyton Orient)

Also, Luton are looking at snapping up Lincoln forward Ben Wright and former Ipswich full–back Luis Castro Sito

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Celtic could complete the singings of damein Duff, Stephen Carr and shea given.

Rangers could make a bid Alan Smith and Geremi from Newcastle

to complete ther old–firm raid on Newcastle

also Celtic to get Harry Kewell on a free transfer from Liverpool.

Scott Brown set to leave Celtic to move to Premiership side Man United for £10 million

Celtic trying to complete the singin of samars after impresing on his loan spell.

Dundee United are hoping to sign James creanney from stranraer and also cotterill from Wigan

to replace nole Hunt as he is looking to sign for Celtic with his brother Steven Hunt from Reading

Reading to get Derek Riordan as a swap

My cousin is the head coach for the Everton under 18s team and he said while he was taking the team for training he saw two players at the training ground and they wer: –

andriy arshivan for £8.5 million and Van der Meyde ( as arshavin said his preferred club would be Everton as they are in Europe)

engelaar from FC twente for £5 million.

he also metioned a few other players and they were:

Jermaine jenas £3.5 million Tottenham

Stuart Downing £7 million boro

dean Ashton £5 million the Hammers

alan mcgreggor £2.5 million Rangers

he also said that the players getting sold would be: –

Van der Meyde zenit swap

Graveson Celtic loan ended

Vaughan notts Forest loan (year long loan) to get fitness back

Valente Rangers/levercusen £4 million

maybe Johnson the Hammers or totenham £14 million

( big Dave – forever Everton ) thanx 4 Reading

I work close to pride park and often nose for players. Have just seen Kevin phillips and is agent leaving the ground smilling.

Lassana Diarra is not leaving Portsmouth, he has stated he would only leave if one of these four teams came in and they are: Man United, Chelsea, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. He has also refused to sign for any Italian team due to the history of racism in Serie A.

Kranjcar is not leaving either, they are both happy to stay at Portsmouth.

Pompey will anounce their interest in Shaun Wright–Phillips this week and wilmake a bid of £10 million. Peter Crouch is expected to sign a four year deal in the next couple of weeks, the only stumbling block is the price Liverpool are asking, Pompey will not budge on £8 million.

Newcastle United have been listed with a load of names so far here are the truthful names: collocini (5 million) aimar (7 million) arshavin (12 million) arda turan (9 million) bridge (3 million) gomis (15 million)

Celtic will strengthen all areas of the team this Summer. main targets are: pletikosa (gk) £1.8 million from spartak moscow, taiwo (lb) £2 million from Marseille, simic (cb) free from AC Milan, zapater (cm) £3 million from Zaragoza and the 'blue chip signing' pavlyuchenko (fw) from spartak moscow. 4 in a row cfc

I am very close to Watford player Dan Shittu and can confirm he is on his way to Celtic and not Rangers in a deal worth £3 million + Nakamura. Expect this deal to be concluded in the week.

Eto was spotted by a source having his own private tour of the ground.

This fuels the stories that FC Barcelona are keen to offer a player in exchange for Hleb.

stoke news

Tony Pulis is chasing Charlton hard to get hold of Marcus Bent recently returned from a successful loan spell with Wigan. He sees him as the obvious foil for Ricardo Fuller who has th epace and stength but lack the experience which Bent will bring. Pulis is not willing to pay more than #2 million. Alan Pardew is likey to see that as reasonable money for the experienced forward.

Everton to sign McGregor for £2.5 million DONT MAKE ME LAUGH, he is Scotlands Best keeper since Andy Goram and is worth at least £10 million ESPECIALLY if it's the Premier League that comes calling, but we will not sell him anyway.

To the boy who said Shittu is going to Celtic instead of Rangers for 3. 5 PLUS Nakamura–GET REAL, I THINK NOT, you should stick to Champ Man.

Klasnic is not going to Rangers, heard Wigan are talking to him, clearly Rangers do not need anymore squad players, I keep hearing Scott Brown and Riordan are going to Rangers, it just keeps coming up in conversation.

Sean Maloney is another who would be welcomed at Ibrox.

Think the next player on Rangers Radar is a magical midfielder, (although we still need a partner for Cuellar and a Right Back) knowing Walter Smith as I do, I think any of the above three players could do it and include Mcfadden in that to play behind Lafferty, Boyd and Miller. (Velicka will also be very good for us)

Charlie Miller is coming back to play for Alex Rae at Dundee. Hopefully.

Gomis from Dundee United could be going to Rangers if they do not get the boy from AZ Alkmaar. Left sided midfielder but Lovenkrands will probably be the player.

And Billy Davies is not out of the Hearts running for manager. Best candidate.

Jimmy Calderwood wants Alan Gow as does Dundee United, do not think we will be doing either of them any favours though. Loan only.

Berra and Reynolds could complete the Rangers Jigsaw for 2008/2009.

Last word on the English Premier League–Do not know how old or how silly some of the people are who post on this, but some teams are getting rid of 11 players and signing 11 new players, DONT THINK SO, You may find, Chelsea do a good bit business new manager new ideas, Man United to strenghthen again after losing Cristiano, Liverpool usually buy 1 cracker and 6 squad players and Arsenal just do not spend at all. So to say Villas going here, Robinho there, Sneijder here, Podolski there is RUSBBISH, just wait and see, Newcastle will probably do most business as they need to. Tottenham have done good business as they ALWAYS do, they just do not deliver on the park, ever.

Crystal Palace have made an offer for Kris Boyd from Rangers. It's likely that the club do not have enough funds to secure the deal but I just thought that I would pass this on.