EPL Gossip for Saturday July 5th
England striker Peter Crouch will move to Portsmouth after the south coast club relented over his valuation and had a £10m bid accepted by Liverpool. (Daily Mail)
Best for both parties. Crouch isn’t old but he isn’t young either. At this stage of his career Crouch being in his prime wants to play week in and week out something Liverpool could not assure him of.
Barcelona are the favourites to land Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor for about £30m. (The Independent)
Arsenal fans won’t miss him the second they sign his replacement.
Newcastle striker Obafemi Martins is targeting a move to Arsenal this summer. (The Sun)
An example of that right here.
Atletico Madrid are poised to move in for Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta. (The Sun)
Old story being bought back to life. Just can’t see it happen. Atletico already have Raúl García, Maxi Rodríguez, Luis García, José Antonio Reyes (albeit he is the black sheep at the moment) Ignacio Camacho and Simao who can all lay claim that they deserve to start.
Chelsea are set to sell defender Branislav Ivanovic to Juventus. (Daily Mirror)
We hardly knew you.
Wigan boss Steve Bruce is set to buy Olivier Kapo from his old club Birmingham in a deal worth £3.5m. (Daily Mirror)
Kapo clearly wants to put of life in the Championship as he didn’t show up for pre-season camp with Birmingham.
Galatasaray are interested in West Ham defender Lucas Neil. (Daily Mail)
West Ham would agree to let him go since Neil makes a ton of money and the hammers would love to get rid of that commitment. Would Neil pack up and move to Turkey? History with English players says no.