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[Chinners]

Manchester City to pursue Hamsik, Napoli offer new deal
According to Italian daily Corriere dello Sport, Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini will continue his pursuit of Marek Hamsik , with Napoli hoping he will sign a new contract before the World Cup.
Despite missing out on Champions League qualification, Mancini still believes that he can attract big names to Eastlands and signing Hamsik, who has been linked to Chelsea for some time would be a statement of Manchester City 's intent.
22 year-old midfielder Hamsik has been a consistent star performer in Serie A over the past several years and has scored 12 goals in 36 games for Napoli this season. The Slovakian is expected to star at this summer's World Cup.
Hamsik is yet to sign a new deal with Napoli, but Corriere dello Sport reports that his agent is negotiating an extension which will take his contract up to 2015. It will include a release clause of 40 million Euros and an agreement over the player’s image rights.
However, Corriere dello Sport reports that Mancini still believes Manchester City can offer Hamsik a financial package hard to turn down. Mancini has also reportedly consulted Hamsik’s Slovakia team-mate Vladimir Weiss, a Manchester City player himself. Apparently, City would have to offer Napoli at least 30 million Euros to have any chance of capturing Hamsik.

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TRANSFER BOLLOX
Manchester United are ready to smash the British transfer record and bid £45m for Valencia and Spain forward David Villa. caughtoffside.com

Inter Milan are planning to buy Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard in the hope that the midfielder's signature will stop manager Jose Mourinho from leaving for Real Madrid. Daily Mirror

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed he is considering his future at the north London club with Barcelona waiting to pounce if the Spaniard decides to quit the Gunners.Daily Mail

Birmingham have made an official approach to sign Fulham striker Bobby Zamora, with boss Alex McLeish undeterred by the failure of his attempts to sign the 29-year-old earlier in the season. Daily Mirror

Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has admitted that he would like to sign Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, increasing speculation the Spaniard could be heading out of Anfield. Daily Mirror

Tottenham are hoping to raid Valencia with boss Harry Redknapp preparing a £28m bid for winger David Silva. caughtoffside.com

Barcelona striker Thierry Henry has signed a pre-contract agreement with Major League Soccer side New York Red Bulls and will head to the United States in the summer.the Sun

Tottenham are set to sell midfielder Jermaine Jenas and forward Robbie Keane to fund moves for targets such as Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick, Chelsea playmaker Joe Cole and Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko.Daily Star

Birmingham City are keeping tabs on Mamelodi Sundowns's South Africa international striker Katlego Mphela. Daily Mail

Fulham are interested in Aston Villa central defender Curtis Davies who cost the club £8m from West Bromwich Albion in 2008. Daily Mail

Liverpool are lining up an £8m offer for Werder Bremen striker Mesut Ozil. caughtoffside.com

Blackburn have held preliminary talks over a £450,000 deal for Molde's Norway international midfielder Magne Hoseth. Daily Mail

Nottingham Forest are interested in taking Manchester United's versatile youngster Corry Evans on a season's loan. Daily Mail

Portsmouth striker John Utaka is set to join French side Sochaux in a cut price £3m deal. Utaka cost Portsmouth a club-record £7m.Daily Mail

Rangers striker Kris Boyd, who is out of contract this summer, says that seven clubs are chasing his signature. He has the chance to move to England with Birmingham, Wolves, Wigan, Newcastle or Middlesbrough or to Turkey with Bursaspor or Ankaragucu. (Daily Record)

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OTHER BOLLOX
LA Galaxy midfielder David Beckham is set to accept a coaching role with England at the World Cup after his hopes of playing in the tournament were ruined by an Achilles injury. the Times

Beckham's England team-mate and Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has revealed that he would like to move into management once his playing days are over.the Times

Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou will demand compensation if West Ham make Pompey boss Avram Grant their new manager. Daily Mail

Midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker has told Aston Villa that he is prepared to sit out the remaining year on his contract and leave for free next summer rather than sign agreements with Blackburn or Stoke. Daily Mirror

Sunderland are prepared to pay only half Tottenham's of £7m asking price to make full-back Alan Hutton's move to the Stadium of Light permanent. Daily Mirror

Manchester United forward Dimitar Berbatov has admitted that he expects the club to sign a new striker this summer after he scored just 12 goals in all competitions this season. the Guardian

Southampton boss Alan Pardew has been told his job as manager is safe as long as he delivers promotion to the Championship next season. Daily Mail

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has allayed fears over the fitness of defender Rio Ferdinand and striker Wayne Rooney by insisting the pair will be fit for England's World Cup campaign. Manchester Evening News

Portsmouth are almost £4m better off than previously thought after an apparent oversight in the administrator's report was revealed.the Guardian

Roy Hodgson's run to the Europa League final with Fulham has made him favourite to be named manager of the Great Britain football team for the London 2012 Olympics. An announcement is expected some time next year. (Daily Mail)

[DoomMerchant]

Manchester U***d are ready to smash the British transfer record and bid £45m for Valencia and Spain forward David Villa. caughtoffside.com

Ermm.....with what money exactly?

mate, they've got cash. Don't be fooled by all the blue-tinted shit we're prone to here...these guys aren't fucking incompetents or jokers. They are running one of the largest sporting enterprises in the world. I know it's fun to slag them off, but we need to climb a peg or two, not hope they fall down. Know what i mean?

The best feeling i think will be beating some of their best sides in years for us to win things. We have to go through them if we want to be who we say we want to be. That's part of the fun. This years derbies and Cup matches were a lot of fun -- though Mancini found a way to make them less fun to watch than his predecessor, but that will get sorted.

Sorry for the rant.

cheers

[shortagain]

They may have the money to buy the players, but will they wreck their pay structure (£120K top earner) to get them in

[btajim]

Manchester U***d are ready to smash the British transfer record and bid £45m for Valencia and Spain forward David Villa. caughtoffside.com

Ermm.....with what money exactly?

They can borrow and put The Swamp up as guarentee. Although there was a rumour from a good source that Taggart was ready to buy Ibrahimovic and the Glazers wouldn't pay for him.

[mcfc1632]

errr - they have access (limited) to funds - they will not be paying 45m for DV - that is beyond their arrangements - just a fact that is not my fact - but theirs - all you have to do is read all the bond issue material etc - yes 'technically' they could get access to over £100m - but that would just increase the debt - it would be added straight onto it

I agree we need to go up a few pegs - but they are coming down as well unless all these new regulations that limit spending (not debt) etc come to their rescue

[MARKMAKAVELI]

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Wowzers I just made a mess in my trousers.

[DoomMerchant]

Manchester U***d are ready to smash the British transfer record and bid £45m for Valencia and Spain forward David Villa. caughtoffside.com

Ermm.....with what money exactly?

mate, they've got cash. Don't be fooled by all the blue-tinted shit we're prone to here...these guys aren't fucking incompetents or jokers. They are running one of the largest sporting enterprises in the world. I know it's fun to slag them off, but we need to climb a peg or two, not hope they fall down. Know what i mean?

The best feeling i think will be beating some of their best sides in years for us to win things. We have to go through them if we want to be who we say we want to be. That's part of the fun. This years derbies and Cup matches were a lot of fun -- though Mancini found a way to make them less fun to watch than his predecessor, but that will get sorted.

Sorry for the rant.

cheers

Fuck me Doomy, I didnt ask for your life story?

Ginger, yr living my life story.

Meet beautiful girl. Fall in Love. Have beautiful babies. Get used to it. It's a fun ride.

BTW what you wrote above wasn't a question. Was it? See what i did there? Oh, and again. Bam. Bam.

Did you like how in Sherlock Holmes (the movie) Holmes would lay out his fistfights in his mind in advance in slow-mo? i loved that.

cheers

[Im_Spartacus]

Manchester U***d are ready to smash the British transfer record and bid £45m for Valencia and Spain forward David Villa. caughtoffside.com

Ermm.....with what money exactly?

mate, they've got cash. Don't be fooled by all the blue-tinted shit we're prone to here...these guys aren't fucking incompetents or jokers. They are running one of the largest sporting enterprises in the world. I know it's fun to slag them off, but we need to climb a peg or two, not hope they fall down. Know what i mean?

The best feeling i think will be beating some of their best sides in years for us to win things. We have to go through them if we want to be who we say we want to be. That's part of the fun. This years derbies and Cup matches were a lot of fun -- though Mancini found a way to make them less fun to watch than his predecessor, but that will get sorted.

Sorry for the rant.

cheers

Fuck me Doomy, I didnt ask for your life story?

They are "apparently" in this mega debt yet get linked with signings like Villa, I just find is strange.

The debt doesnt come into it. Villa will be 30 in December, and Ferguson is on record that the club will not fund huge money signings for players who have their best years behiind them - they reckon Berbatov was an exception, and look how that turned out.

Villa isnt going to United, shit journalism

[john68]

David Villa to the rags....NOT A CAT IN HELLS CHANCE.

It's just that age old strategy designed to gain publicity and grab headlines. The rags have done this for years, leaked stuff about this player or that one, that they had no intention of pursuing. Batistuta springs to mind, amongst many others...and it never happened.
The World Cup, Chelsea, and City to some extent are getting the coverage...Taggart is just attention seeking.

[DoomMerchant]

Ginger, yr living my life story.

Meet beautiful girl. Fall in Love. Have beautiful babies. Get used to it. It's a fun ride.

BTW what you wrote above wasn't a question. Was it? See what i did there? Oh, and again. Bam. Bam.

Did you like how in Sherlock Holmes (the movie) Holmes would lay out his fistfights in his mind in advance in slow-mo? i loved that.

cheers

Need I say more....your obviously on crack.

buy an apostrophe and a vowel, genius.

cheers

[craigmcfc]

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Wowzers I just made a mess in my trousers.

Isn't she a belter !!