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Kaka to Chelsea? All the Latest EPL Transfer Speculation
Published by Ian John on November 4, 2010
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Chelsea fans will no doubt be excited to hear the news that Kaka, Real Madrid’s erstwhile disappointing midfielder, is set for a January transfer to Stamford Bridge. Apparently Jose Mourinho is unimpressed and wants to recoup some of the money Real spent on the player by sending him to his former club. Ancelotti has also been linked with a move for Anderlecht’s talented young striker Romelu Lukaku, who is also interesting Arsenal and Manchester United.
Manchester City do not have warring factions within the dressing room. This expensively assembled team of ego’s co-exists in perfect symbiotic harmony and there are no petty fall-outs between players like we saw on the field at the weekend, ever. In fact, you probably imagined Vincent Kompany and Emmanuel Adebayor having a playground tiff. Roque Sants Cruz is delighted to be picking splinters out of his bottom every weekend, while everyone else gets on so well together, they are thinking of living together in a communal tent, parked just outside the Manchester ring road. If you believe the press Edin Dzeko and Dani Alves are being linked with taking the tent near the traffic lights, but Shaun Wright Phillips could be evicted and forced to go and live in Blackburn or Liverpool.
Manchester United meanwhile are not spending any money in January, according to some sources that may, or may not, be entirely reliable. So the speculation linking United with Napoli duo Marek Hamsik and Ezequiel Lavezzi, a myriad of goalkeepers from across Europe including Liverpool’s Pepe Reina, another Anfield star in Fernando Torres, Steven Defour, Gareth Bale, Luka Modric, Wesley Sneijder and most excitingly of all, Jordan Henderson, must all be the deranged talk of a madman.
Arsenal are in the market for a goalkeeper too, many would have you believe. Arsene Wenger is believed to be keeping tabs on several, including Mark Schwarzer, but he’ll have to hurry as the big Australian is due to receive his free bus-pass in the post any time soon. The Gunners are also said to be chasing a new centre half with Gary Cahill of Bolton and Borossia Dortmund Neven Subotic both being touted by overly enthusiastic Gunners fans who also believe Pepe Reina could be the solution to the goalkeeping problem.
Poor old Harry Redknapp is having to face the other end of the transfer stick for once. Usually concerned with buying up players, Harry’s been forced to come out and state that his star players, such as chief Inter Milan tormentor Gareth Bale, who did a better job at destroying the Maicon than Dan Dare, as well as Croatian midfield ghost Luka Modric are not for sale. After his Champions League exploits, half the footballing world wants Gareth Bale but Harry is unlikely to sell for anything less than an utterly ludicrous offer, which rules everyone bar Manchester City out of the bidding. (I present as exhibit A. Yaya Toure’s £220,000 a week wage packet). Man Utd want Modric apparently, obviously haven’t been put off by the last time they signed a central midfielder from Spurs then?
Finally, Liverpool of course can now buy players in January. Can’t they? Who knows. The new American owners have gone all coy about what will be made available in January to Roy Hodgson and stated that the club has to invest in youth and develop its own players with greater frequency. It all sounds rather ominous, so reports linking the Reds to Steven Defour, Shaun Wright Phillips, Ibrahim Affelay and Ola Toivonen should be treated with a large dose of skepticism.
Spare a thought for Blackpool, the paupers of the Premier League (Their highest paid player earns 1/25th of what Wayne Rooney does each week), could soon lose a few of their most important players because they can’t afford to put them on long term contracts. Keeper Matt Gilks and midfielders Charlie Adam and David Vaughan could all be on their way in January, not because Blackpool do not want to keep them, but that they can’t afford to match what other clubs will likely pay them should they become free agents in June.
Given what he has to work with and the way he has his team playing and his passion. If the FA choose anyone bar Ian Holloway as the next England manager, then they want their heads examining.
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