MAVHARIVHARI (Rumours) & INTERNATIONAL UPDATES • Chelsea are prepared to pay a £200m contract-release clause to sign Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, 27. • Liverpool want to buy Manchester City and England midfielder James Milner. The 29-year-olds contract expires at the end of the season. • Manchester United have made an offer for German central defender Mats Hummels, but Borussia Dortmund say the 26-year-old is not for sale. • Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, 32, could leave the club at the end of the season and has been linked with a move across London to Arsenal. • England winger Andros Townsend, 23, insists his long-term future is at Tottenham despite being consistently linked with a move away from White Hart Lane. • Arsenal have had a £5m bid for Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Marcelo Brozovic rejected. Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, AC Milan and Valencia also want to sign the 22-year-old. • Liverpool and England striker Rickie Lambert, 32, has emerged as an early transfer target for the new Crystal Palace manager, Alan Pardew. • Aston Villa have opened talks with Manchester City about signing winger Scott Sinclair, 25. • Greek side Olympiakos have made an attempt to sign Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli, 24, on loan until the end of the season. • Liverpool midfielder Suso, 21, is set to join AC Milan on a four-year deal, with the move likely to go through either in January or the summer. • Manchester United look set to miss out on highly-rated Norwegian midfielder Martin Odegaard, 16, who may move to Real Madrid. • Ipswich are set to sign Republic of Ireland international striker Noel Hunt on Thursday on a free transfer. The 32-year-old, who was released by Leeds on Wednesday, had a loan spell at Portman Road earlier in the season. • Arsenal are set to make a £4m move for 17-year-old midfielder Krystian Bielik, after a £2.4m bid was rejected by his Polish club Legia Warsaw earlier this week. • Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe, whose side are top of the Championship, has no interest in succeeding Alan Pardew as manager of Newcastle United. • Ajax boss Frank De Boer is Newcastles top target to replace Pardew, but the Dutchman will not take over at St James Park until the summer. • Pardew may have left his job because he was told by the clubs owner Mike Ashley that he is going to sell them. • Liverpools Steven Gerrard, 34, reckons fellow midfielder Jordan Henderson, 24, is the perfect choice to become the clubs next captain. • The Premier League will start a week earlier next season to ensure fewer matches are played over the Christmas and New Year periods. • Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al-Hasawi has asked the sides players if they still want manager Stuart Pearce at the club after a run of only two wins in 19 games. ) • Former Everton winger Pat Nevin fears his old club will be in a relegation battle at the end of the season. • Striker Mauro Zarate, who has moved from West Ham to QPR on loan, explains the transfer on Twitter. He says: I am very happy, its an assignment for six months, but its something I needed, and I want to play. • Liverpool defender Jose Enrique posts pictures on Twitter of him and his team-mates at a birthday party for Martin Skrtel, who turned 30 on 15 December. • Chelsea missed the chance to sign Eden Hazard for £100,000 when he was 16. The Belgium attacking midfielder, now 24, eventually joined the Blues for £32m in 2012. • Brazil defender Dante is still the butt of jokes from his Bayern Munich team-mates over his countrys 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat by Germany last summer.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 05:15:44 +0000
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