Sir Alex's brother Martin Ferguson was present in Lyon's last three matches to have a check on Karim Benzema and Miralem Pjanic. hes also scouted Bordeaux's new acquisition Yohan Gourcuff. .a mega money bid for Benzema is inevitable. .

Two more midfielders are currently on United's radar. Hamsik of Napoli and Danny of Zenit st. Petersburg. sir alex likes them both.

ins//
Benzema (likely)
Pjanic (likely)
Valencia/Alexis Sanchez(one of these 2)
Hamsik/Gourcuff/Danny (one of these 3)
Tevez (likely)

outs///

Nani (surely)
park (likely)
Berbatov (likely)
Manucho (surely)

and lastly thanks to the person who speaks for everyone about 'once upon a big club' Newcastle.

Messi will stay at Barcelona, if they have a bad few seasons they he might leave... But the english league need him now! Not years from now.

Chelsea will most probably sign a forward to play on 1 of the wings as that is the only weak link in their squad. theyll probably sign a few squad more players to strengthen the ageing team.

ins.
–a goalkeeper for back up as hiliario isn't up to standard.
–a left back for back up
– 1 or 2 of these big name signings kaka,villa,pato,adeboyor,van der vaart,zhirkov

outs.
ferrira
sinclair
kalou or malouda
carvalho or alex

other teams

tevez and barry to man c
yaya toure to arsenal
ribery or ronaldo to real madrid
owen to la galaxy
g johnson to liverpool

Messi will stay at Barcelona, if they have a bad few seasons they he might leave... But the english league need him now! Not years from now.

Funny, I thought the topic was 'talk football here' not 'post endless football stories here'

Owen has been offered a deal by Everton. Downing is in talks with Man City. Downing is injured. Therefore these players will not be joining Liverpool. Furthermore, Gourcuff has just signed with Bordeux and is happy there, and Aguero wants to stay at Athletico Madrid. Kaka has said he doesn't want to leave too. Rafa has made an offer for Kleber in the Brazilian league. He also wants Javi Martinez. Maximum offer of £15 million for Silva, according to skysports. Could see Lavezzi joining Liverpool in exchange for Dossena, but would rather a Spaniard, to partner Torres.

Real Madrid have changed their value of Alonso from £22mil to £28mil. However, Benitez will not sell unless Sergio Ramos AND Gonzalo Higuain come in the opposite direction. Real are reluctant but they reallw want Alonso & feel that they can replace both Higuain and Ramos. The new deal is likely to be £15mil + Alonso for Ramos + Higuain

Real Madrid will look to replace Ramos with £17mil Maicon. Inter Milan will replace him with Darijo Srna, as well as Santon being able to play there. madrid are also looking to sign Villa (37mil) Ribery (41mil) Silva (20mil) and Ronaldo for £55mil + Sneijder.

Roy Keane to be celtic Manager by Thursday. He will bring in Duff, Gibson (on loan) Manucho (on loan). He is planning to sell the Holy Goalie to Le Arse for £8Million and he will then use this money to get Duff and Rory Delap. . . and none other than P Scholes (his best mate!)

ARSENAL is set to sign 3 Belgian players:
Defender Thomas VERMAELEN (23) from AJAX for £5M
Striker Moussa DEMBELE (21) from AZ for £10M
Midfielder Eden HAZARD (17) from LILLE OSC for £15M

Everton ins
owen
moutinho
ledley
bently

everton outs
van der meyde

This close season expect the balance of power to return to Spain, with KAKA, DAVID VILLA & C.RONALDO signing for Real Madrid. Also expect SERGIO AGUERO & RIBERY to sign for Barcelona along with one of either ESSIEN, FABREGAS or ALONSO. Man Utd will sign HUNTELAAR to replace TEVEZ, who is definately off to Man City. Man Utd may also try and get WESLEY SNEIJDER as part of the C.RONALDO deal. Arsenal will try to lure HENRY back to London, while his Barcelona counterpart ETO'O may well join Man City or ARSENAL as well, as ABEDEYOUR is definately leaving. Chelsea will sign PIRLO and maybe RONALDINHIO if as expected, they don't manage to lure KAKA to England. Liverpool will get DAVID SILVA and MICHEAL OWEN. WAtch this space. . .

Does anyone want more football storys?

Still football shaun!

You can post here shaun, mark will let you if you ask.

Glasgow Rangers in's & out's this summer

Outs

Dailly & Hemdani released
Adam to Blackpool or Notts Forest
Webster & Velicka to Hearts
Gow to Derby
Beasley to Schalke
Ferguson to WBA
Boyd to Birmingham
McGregor to Birmingham

in's

Craig Gordon from Sunderland
Hreidarrsson from Portsmouth
Auigar from Hearts
Brunt from WBA if not Driver from Hearts
Machieda on loan from Man United

Interesting news coming out of forest, deals are set in place for blackstock, mills, lynch, camp, gunter, anderson, adebola, mcgoldrick surman, all of which seem to be common knowledge now, the club are leaving it a few more weeks now before they announce anything, expect a few surprise transfers along the way. Its exciting times down trent side.
always fact!

Everton
I am an everton fan but am very realistic
linked with moutinho for 3rd season now
it aint happening!!!
will sign ledley and striker, Jo on loan possibly.
And if any wants hibbert please take him

Yes, more football news and info please..

Coventry
Ins–
–Glen Little (free)
–Andrew Driver (1.75m)– Hearts
–Jermaine Beckford (1m)– Leeds
–Didi Hamann (free)
–Carlos Martinez (1m)– Real Sociedad
Outs–
–Andy Marshall (free)– Millwall
–Isacc Osbourne (500k)– Peterborough
–Kevin Thornton (250k)– Brighton
–Michael Mifsud (free)– Leeds
–Robbie Simpson (200k)– Brentford

Got more to come

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson is lining up a move for Tottenham centre back Ricardo Rocha. Rocha has been given permission to talk to other clubs and Hodgson sees him as an ideal candidate to add depth to his squad.

I told you about Liverpool to have a major overhaul of their scouting system 4 months ago and hey presto Rafa has basically sacked everyone in the Academy to start afresh inc Gary Ablett, the fact is the Academy was Parry influenced. He has also disposed of most of his major scouts.

OK now the news, tell me why have all the major players in LFC just signed extensions to their contracts even Torres, and i mean all the major senior players of quality. And this followed RAFAs contract extension. It certainly won't be coming from the yanks who won't be refinancing their loan, its because a takeover is imminent. Im sorry I won't insult you with who it is because i don't know.

Next season we'll see Kevin Davies being the captain for Carling Cup drive as well as Stevie G cover. We'll also see young Pacheco arrive on the scene, another Carling Cup feature. Liverpool's biggest win next season will be against Blackburn when RAFA makes American Dad. .sorry Sam A eat every single word he uttered against him and Sammy, that's if he stays manager that long.

Full backs : Glenn johnson looks a hopeful signing. Drenth is a strong left back but has an awkward temperament and im not sure if RAFA wants unstable behaviour but he may be used as part of a swap deal with fellow dutchman Babble. what is it with the Dutch attitude these days? Kuyt excluded.

Who ever buys Ribery. don't expect any goals.

Will RAFA buy Tevez, well hes a hunter for sure but wil RAFA swallow his pride to buy a Man U player. .or is he?

What would make my dreams come true next season, well if the 2 prima donna actors Drogba and Ronaldo leave this shore I will be happy and if LFC buy KaKa and Puyol I'll be in dream land. . and before anyone says dream on. .thats how success is brought about by dreaming.

12 more weeks lads, lets all hang on. Signing off. Keep safe and don't do drugs.

Fulham manager Roy Hodgson is lining up a move for Benfica striker Óscar Cardozo. The Paraguayan striker who has scored 30 goals in 50 games would be available for 15M euros, which could prove the stumbling block.

Man united news
ferguson will buy at least 3 top players in the summer and 2–3 new younger players for for cover and for the league cup next season
here are his targets

top players
j huntalaar 15m
l valencia 18m
s downing 8m
f gago 14m
p lahm 10m
marcelo 9m
r drenthe 7m

younger players/less known players
beckford 4m
a bruce 2m
s cox 3m
c brunt 1m
l bechio 1.5m

this is from an insider at old trafford

Top 4 in premier league transfer targets:–

Man U
In:

Valencia (18m)
huntelaar (15m)
Wesley Sneijder (part of swap deal)

Out:

Nani (12m)
Ronaldo (45m + Sneijder)

Liverpool
In:

G Johnson (11m)
Mata (8.5m)
Anelka (12m)
Huddlestone (7.5m)

Out:
Dossena (7m)
Babel (10m)
Voronin (3m)
Lucas (3m)
Itandje (500k)

Chelsea
in:

sessegnon (14m)
Luis fabiano (19m)
Pirlo (16m)
Maicon (22m)

Out:

Mikel (14m)
Drogba (10m)
Kalou (7m)
Ferreira (2m)
Deco (8m)

Arsenal
In:

Wheater (8m)
Green (9m)
Cana (7.5m)
Veloso (13m)

Out:

Almunia (4m)
Gallas (3m)
Diaby (6m)