Carlo Ancelotti wants Philippe Mexes to replace Ricardo Carvalho and Barcelona are ready to bid £25million for Aston Villa's Ashley Young.
THE SUN
Jamie Carragher hopes Liverpool's financial woes does not force boss Rafa Benitez to dismantle his squad.
Steve Bruce is hoping to make Jermaine Pennant his first signing at Sunderland.
Atletico Madrid are eyeing up a £4million swoop for Spurs flop Giovani Dos Santos.
Chelsea have told UEFA they will appeal against the bans of Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa.
Carlo Ancelotti has put Philippe Mexes on top of his Chelsea hitlist to replace Ricardo Carvalho.
Newcastle are set to put coach Chris Hughton in charge of pre-season.
Serbian star Zoran Tosic admitted Cristiano Ronaldo told his Manchester United pals he was leaving before the Champions League final.
Scott Parker took his West Ham physio on holiday with him this summer.
DAILY MAIL
Javier Mascherano is set to leave Liverpool, with Barcelona preparing a £35million bid.
Manchester United have been linked with a move for Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
Thomas Vermaelen claimed he will be challenging for the biggest trophies in the game after completing his 10million move to Arsenal last night.
Wolves are lining up a bid for Reading striker Kevin Doyle.
Seville president Jose Maria del Nido says he is struggling to match Tottenham's £6million valuation for midfielder Didier Zokora.
A charity match in honour of Sir Bobby Robson is under threat because of the apathy surrounding Newcastle United.
DAILY EXPRESS
Arsenal were warned last night that Bordeaux striker Marounae Chamakh will not come cheap.
Roque Santa Cruz is set to jet back from his holiday this weekend to complete an £18million move to Manchester City.
Zoran Tosic might receive some hairdryer treatment from manager Alex Ferguson after becoming the first Manchester United player to admit Cristiano Ronaldo was always on his way out.
DAILY STAR
Barcelona are ready to launch a £25million bid for Aston Villa winger Ashley Young.
Valencia want David Villa to sign for Chelsea as Roman Abramovich has made the biggest offer for the striker thus far.
Theo Walcott believes England's Under-21 success can spur him on to World Cup glory next year.
Aston Villa are ready to harden their interest in Middlesbrough centre-half David Wheater.
DAILY STAR: Barcelona are ready to launch a £25million bid for Aston Villa winger Ashley Young. Also: Valencia want David Villa to sign for Chelsea because Roman Abramovich has made the biggest offer for the star striker... Controversial F1 chief Max Mosley yesterday vowed there will be only one racing series next summer.
DAILY MAIL: English football spiralled into the first stages of a financial crisis last night as Setanta's rescue bid ran out of time.
Barca to bid for Ash - Various
Barcelona are ready to launch a £25m bid for Aston Villa winger Ashley Young. Would Villa accept a big-money offer for the wing wizard?
Carlo Mex his move - The Sun
Chelsea's new manager Carlo Ancelotti has put Philippe Mexes on the top of his Chelsea hit-list to replace Ricardo Carvalho. Would Roma cash in on the France international defender?
Valencia keen on Blues' offer - Daily Star
Valencia want David Villa to sign for Premier League giants Chelsea as owner Roman Abramovich has made the biggest offer. Will Villa eventually end up in England's top flight?
Barca to bid for Masch - Daily Mail
Javier Mascherano is set to leave Liverpool with Barcelona preparing a £35million bid. Would Liverpool be tempted to cash in on the Argentinian ace?
Valencia keen on Blues' offer - Daily Mirror
Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has ordered his agent to find him a new club. Would Spurs be better off with the Russia international marksman?
Bruce to move for Pennant - The Sun
Sunderland's new boss Steve Bruce is trying to make Jermaine Pennant his first signing - and he can land the winger on a free transfer. Would Pennant be a success for The Black Cats?
Bhoys join striker hunt - Daily Record
Celtic has joined the chase for in-demand striker Marc-Antoine Fortune, who spent some of last season on loan with West Brom. Would the Nancy striker be a good signing for The Bhoys?
O'Neill to firm up Wheater interest - Daily Star
Martin O'Neill is ready to step up his persuit of defender David Wheater after Middlesbrough rejected the idea of involving Marlon Harewood in the deal. Would Wheater be a good signing for Aston Villa?
Atletico to bid for Spurs flop - The Sun
Atletico Madrid are eyeing up a £4million swoop for Spurs flop Giovani Dos Santos. Should the Mexican give himself more time to adapt to English football?
Zola out to bag Balotelli - Daily Mirror
Gianfranco Zola is set to raid Inter Milan for highly-rated striker Mario Balotelli. Would the 18-year-old be a good signing for The Hammers?
Carlos Tevez to leave Manchester United after rejecting five-year deal
Manchester United have confirmed that Carlos Tevez is to leave Old Trafford, leaving the way open for Manchester City to attempt to take the striker to Eastlands.
The United chief executive David Gill had been in discussions with Tevez's advisor Kia Joorabchian, with the aim of keeping the popular Argentina player. But, despite the offer of a lucrative five-year contract that would have made Tevez one of the highest paid players at the club, the South American has decided to leave.
"Following contact received from Carlos Tevez's advisers last night, in advance of the deadline the club set for concluding negotiations, Manchester United announces that Carlos will not be signing a new contract with the club," said a statement released by United this morning. "The club agreed to pay the option price of £25.5m and offered Carlos a five-year contract which would have made him one of its highest-paid players.
"Disappointingly, however, his advisers informed the club that, despite the success he has enjoyed during one of the club's most successful periods, he does not wish to continue playing for Manchester United. The club would like to thank Carlos for his services over the last two seasons and wishes him good luck for the future."
Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea have all been linked with the striker, with City thought to be at the front of the queue. As the Eastlands club are on the verge of confirming Roque Santa Cruz's £16.5m arrival from Blackburn, it would represent a major statement of intent for a club also hoping to tie up the signing of the Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o.
The news will be greeted with dismay by United fans, who have warmed to Tevez's all-action style during a two-year "loan" spell that has included successive Premier League titles and the Champions League in 2008. They had hoped some of the £80m about to be pocketed from Real Madrid for the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo would be used to keep Tevez.
However, after declaring earlier this season he was deeply unhappy at a perceived lack of match action – even though he made more appearances than either Wayne Rooney or Dimitar Berbatov, it was always likely the South American would move on.
It leaves Sir Alex Ferguson with a major rebuilding job to do in attack given he is still to secure a replacement for Ronaldo. The youngsters Federico Macheda and Danny Welbeck impressed last term and may be expected to have more involvement as United chase an unprecedented fourth successive title.
But Ferguson needs experience as well to compliment Rooney and Berbatov, who endured a patchy debut season at Old Trafford following his club-record £30.75m arrival from Tottenham.
Karim Benzema and Franck Ribéry have both been spoken of as potential targets, although there is no guarantee either will come. And while Antonio Valencia's £18m arrival from Wigan should eventually go through, his lack of goalscoring prowess is a worry.
With Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Edwin van der Sar about to embark on what many think will be their final seasons in top-flight football and memories of a comprehensive Champions League final defeat to Barcelona last month still fresh, Ferguson clearly has some unwanted headaches seven weeks ahead of the opening Premier League game against Birmingham.
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Football transfer rumours: Lucas Neill to Chelsea?
Lucas Neill
This time last year Emmanuel Adebayor had just completed his third season at Arsenal, in which he had scored exactly as many league goals as Thierry Henry had scored in his third season at the club. Ergo, Adebayor demanded to be paid exactly what Henry had been on. Incredibly, following his fourth campaign with the Gunners, in which he fired in 14 fewer league goals than the Frenchman scored in his fourth season, today's papers carry not a single story about the Togolese stomping righteously into Arsène Wenger's office to demand a swingeing pay cut.
In fairness, maybe Adebayor did approach Wenger but recoiled at the last minute when he spotted his manager beating the walls in frustration while howling "CURSES, CURSES …. A THOUSAND CURSES ON THE CURS … WELL MAYBE NINE HUNDRED CURSES, LET'S BE SENSIBLE … ANYWAY, CURSES ON THE CURS … I've broken the club's transfer record twice in the last year and still that ungrateful rabble accuse me of penny-pinching." Between curses, of course, Wenger will complete the signing of Thomas Vermaelen from Ajax and then head to France to drop Emmanuel Eboué off at Paris Saint-Germain before picking up striker Marouane Chamakh from Bordeaux. That's bad news for Roy Hodgson, who was rather hoping the Moroccan would head back to London with him. Fulham will now start stalking Wolfsburg's Edin Dzeko instead. But Milan quite fancy him too.
Elsewhere in London, Chelsea, reeling from the improvement in Glen Johnson over the last year, are about to get all Tottenham on us and attempt to buy the full-back for much more than they sold him for only a few months ago. If that bold bid goes through, it's bad news for Liverpool. If it doesn't, the fact* that Jose Bosingwa is off to Bayern Munich will force Carlo Ancelotti either to resurrect Paulo Ferreira, go a-trawling through Serie A or vindicate the seemingly preposterous rumour about Chelsea snapping up the reasonably multi-functional, highly cash-conscious defender Lucas Neill.
Tottenham want to pass the hex that is Gareth Bale on to Sunderland, and replace him with West Ham's Herita Ilunga. Sunderland also want to take David Bentley off Spurs's hands, but so do Aston Villa, Wolves and Everton. A bidding war could break out, then, but rest assured Spurs will probably still find a way to make at least a 50% loss on the player they bought a year ago.
Everton are also eyeing up Marseille captain Lorik Cana, a holding midfielder whose shooting prowess in on a par with Phil Neville's. And in a bid to prevent a repeat of last season, when Everton began the campaign with six and a half players, David Moyes is also pursuing Celtic's Scott Brown, Lyon's Sidney Govou and the Newcastle player claiming to be Damien Duff.
