Newcastle could be bought by the World's most infamous
man, Chelsea has made an astronomical bid for Kaka and plenty more
as the gossip season heats up on tvnz.co.nz
Newcastle United - The Bin Laden Connection
A wealthy construction company run by the family of terrorist
Osama bin Laden has emerged as a shock
front-runner to buy Newcastle United, a source with links to the
club claimed on Monday.
The Saudi Binladen Group, whose chief executive is Osama's
half-brother,
Bakr bin Laden, and which was
founded by their father,
Sheikh Mohammed bin
Laden, is said to be considering a 300million plus
pound deal to buy the club and then carry out a lucrative
redevelopment of St James' Park and land surrounding the
ground.
Although the Bin Laden family publicly distanced itself from the
founder of Al-Qaeda years before he claimed responsibility for the
September 11 atrocities in 2001, any takeover would be football's
most controversial yet, as well as taking the number of
foreign-owned teams in the Premier League to 10, or half of
England's biggest clubs.
(Daily Mirror)
Manchester United - Conflicting tales in the battle for
Ronaldo
Manchester United's battle to keep
Cristiano
Ronaldo and
Carlos Queiroz is set to end
in partial success - with their star player staying but assistant
manager departing.
While Real Madrid have all but conceded defeat in their bid to
bully United into selling Ronaldo, the winger's national team are
close to securing Queiroz as their new coach.
(Daily
Mail)
Real Madrid are ready to launch a 70million pound bid for Cristiano Ronaldo in the next 48 hours and have urged the Manchester United star to hand in a transfer request.
Real have made it clear they will not offer more than 70m pound for the Portugal winger, despite United's insistence that their most saleable asset is not for sale at any price. (Daily Mirror)
Real Madrid - Drogba and Ronaldo
Real Madrid president
Ramon Calderon has
launched a double charm offensive to try to sign
Didier
Drogba AND
Cristiano Ronaldo.
Calderon is negotiating with
Roman Abramovich over
Chelsea striker Drogba about a 20million pound move to the
Bernabeu. -
(Daily Mirror)
Real Madrid - Reuben de la Red in hot demand
Arsenal, Tottenham and Aston Villa could soon be locked in a three-way fight for Real Madrid midfielder Ruben de la Red.
The Barclays Premier League trio are understood to have made
enquiries about the availability of de la Red who was part of
Spain's victorious European Championship squad.
Real sold de la Red to neighbours Getafe last summer for 2.4m
pounds but exercised their option to bring de la Red back to
the Berbanbeu for 3.6m pounds just 12 months later.
Real now rate the 23-year-old at around 15m pounds.
(Daily Mail)
Chelsea - Outlandish bid for Kaka
Chelsea have made an 'astronomical' bid for AC Milan star
Kaka, according to the club's vice president
Adriano Galliani.
Sportsmail revealed last month that Chelsea owner
Roman
Abramovich was prepared to bankroll a world record
breaking 60m pound bid for the Brazil midfielder.
But Galliani revealed yesterday that Chelsea's huge offer has
failed to convince Milan to sell, despite a bleak financial
forecast following the Italian side's failure to qualify for the
Champions League.
(Daily Mail)
New Chelsea signing
Deco has pleaded with
Frank Lampard to stay at the club so they can form
a dangerous midfield partnership.
(The People)
Wigan - far too cool
Wigan manager Steve Bruce has pulled out of the race for Croatia's Euro 2008 striker Ivan Klasnic - because it is too cold for him in the Premier League.
Bruce's medical team looked into hit man Klasnic's background and found out that he needs to play in a warm climate because of a kidney problem . (Daily Mail)
Arsenal - can't compete
Arsenal boss
Arsene Wenger has revealed the
burden of meeting the payments for the 360million
pound Emirates Stadium means the club will need to sell a
big-name player annually for the next 17 years.
The financial situation at Arsenal is likely to force Wenger to
sell
Emmanuel Adebayor this summer, while the
future of Alexander Hleb is also in doubt.
Wenger was also forced to concede the days of Arsenal competing
with Manchester United and Chelsea for signatures of the world's
biggest stars are gone.
(Daily Mirror)
Arsenal are ready to launch an 18m pounds bid for Dutch
striker
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
(News of the
World)
Liverpool - defence the priority
Rafael Benitez had a busy Monday in the transfer
market capturing two new defenders.
Italian full-back
Andrea Dossena signed from
Udinese while Swiss right-back
Philipp Degen came
on a free from Borussia Dortmund. Both joined the Reds on
four-year-deals.
Dossena, 26, is seem as a replacement for the departed John Arne
Riise who left for Roma earlier this summer and joins for an
undisclosed fee thought to be around 7million pounds.
(BBC)
Barcelona - Ronaldinho favours Italy
Barcelona and Brazil playmaker
Ronaldinho looks
set to snub the Premier League in favour of a move to Italy.
His agent Roberto de Assis told Italian television a move to AC
Milan was the most likely option and ruled out a move to LA Galaxy.
(BBC)
Didier Drogba has said he is still desperate to
leave Chelsea and he could be replaced at Stamford Bridge by
Barcelona striker
Samuel Eto'o.
(The
Observer)
