EPL Gossip for Wednesday April 23rd
Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill is lining up a £5m move for Chelsea’s Steve Sidwell after conceding skipper Gareth Barry may leave this summer. (Daily Mirror)
£5 million pounds for a player that Chelsea signed on a free transfer last summer? Villa would be foolish to pay that amount of money for a player who has been collecting dust on the bench all year long.
Spanish newspaper AS has claimed Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o, who has a £120m release clause in his contract, held talks with Tottenham last week. (The Independent)
At some point Tottenham is going to get fed up with Dimitar Berbatov and his weekly I’m staying/I am wanna play in the Champions League attitude. If that is the case and they even have a small shot of signing Eto’o I’d use the money from a Berbatov transfer to close that deal with Barcelona.
Davis and his Portsmouth team-mate Pedro Mendes could leave Fratton Park in the summer as boss Harry Redknapp seeks to raise cash to buy Liverpool striker Peter Crouch. (Daily Star)
Pedro Mendes has seen less and less playing time as the year goes along. Time for him to move on but he’ll always be a fan favorite since no player did more to keep Portsmouth up in the 2005-2006 season.
Kevin Keegan could be poised to move for Liverpool’s beleaguered John Arne Riise after the Newcastle manager admitted left-backs are high on his summer shopping shortlist. (The Guardian)
I’m sure that move has become a tad easier in the last 24 hours.
Manager Claudio Ranieri wants his old Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini at Juventus. (Daily Mirror)
No player can warm up a bench like Cudicini can.
West Ham are set to offer goalkeeper Robert Green and striker Dean Ashton new deals that will take both players into the £40,000-a-week bracket. (The Sun)
One of those two players are worth the money and its not Dean Ashton.