DOUBLE DAVID DEAL FOR LIVERPOOL? If the Reds pull off Nickerpool’s suggested coup fans will be very, very happy. With Real Madrid intent on signing Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Cesc Fabregas, he/she is tipping Liverpool to seal a double swoop for David Silva and David Villa, both of Rafael Benitez’s native Spain and former club Valencia. £70m is the fee mooted, which is a touch excessive for a club teetering on bankruptcy.

RUMOURS OF THE DAY: Manchester United have offered £20m PLUS Cristiano Ronaldo for Lionel Messi. On the duo’s comparative performances during the Champions League final, it’s a fair trade I’d say…

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!Reports say Chelsea have offered a whopping £73.5m for Kaka! What a turn-up for the books! Real Madrid, and the Spanish press, assumed it was a done deal, that Chelsea could not compete with Real’s £55m bid, but this is something else. £10m a year AFTER tax too. And if it’s all about winning trophies Kaka would be better served at Chelsea, surely.

SIGNED! Steve Bruce takes his seventh job in nine years as Sunderland confirm he is their new boss. It took a few days of wrangling with Wigan, then a while for the ex Birmingham, Crystal Palace, Sheffield United and Huddersfield boss to agree terms

WORD ON THE STRASSE: It seems appropriate to lead the afternoon’s continental round-up with Uli Hoeness’s quite lairy insistence that Franck Ribery is going nowhere: “There will be enquiries for Ribery in the next four to six weeks, I’m sure. But we have not had any decisive enquiry and we are not interested in any of the rumours in the English press. We will be polite, but we will not negotiate. We are not going to celebrate on the telephone when somebody offers a certain amount.

Sunderland keeper Marton Fulop would love to join Panathinaikos after he was linked with a £1.8m move. He was first choice for much of the season but, with Craig Gordon returning from an operation, he knows he would be better used in Greece. “It is a very flattering prospect,” he told Goal Day. “This is one of the top clubs in Europe, with success at a local level as well as regularly appearing in the Champions League, and it makes sense that any player would be interested in going there. It would be an honour to join such a club.”

VILLA IN FOR LESCOTT, BENTLEY? Well free London newspaper Metro think so. Apparently Martin O’Neill will move swiftly with the Gareth Barry cash and, while bringing Spurs outcast David Bentley in is a definite possibility, surely Joleon Lescott would rather stay at Everton? He is from the Midlands though…

BREAKING NEWS!! The wonderful world of the web is whipping up a whirlwind of w’s as West Brom’s Tony Mowbray is alleged to be in talks with Celtic. Okay, so that’s only two w’s but still, he’s taken the Baggies as far as he can and would bring the passing game back to the Hoops.

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