More volatile than Roberto Mancini and Mario Balotelli trapped in a lift, it’s all the latest rumours from today’s transfer market shenanigans.
With Joe Cole now confirmed as a West Ham player once again, the big rumours today all surround his former team-mate at two clubs, Frank Lampard.
The Sun reckon Frank could be shipped out this month while the Star are reporting that the England international has offered to take a whopping £100,000-a-week pay cut to stay at Stamford Bridge.
Meanwhile quotes from his agent that Lampard was set to leave at the end of the season have since been denied by said agent and it leaves us all none the wiser as to where the midfielder will be next week, never mind next season.
If he does leave we hope he is allowed to exit with some dignity as he has been a marvellous player for them, scoring just shy of 200 goals in his decade there.
Elsewhere, there a hint of a certain Irish record goalscorer about the news that Joleon Lescott, out of favour at Manchester City, could be joining the club he supported as a boy, Aston Villa. Dust off your ‘boyhood dream’ jokes now.
Our now obligatory QPR story is a doozy today, with unsettled Inter Milan star Wesley Sneijder being linked to Loftus Road today in The Sun. The 28-year-old Dutchman is a great player, but a grafter for a team struggling against relegation is not the first attribute that springs to mind. His wages will be astronomical too. We’ll believe it when we see it.
Meanwhile Arsene Wenger is loading up the Transit and plans on dropping off Maroune ‘More haircuts than goals’ Chamakh at Reading, before hopping on the ferry and leaving Sebastien Squillaci, Andrei Arshavin and Johan Djourou somewhere in Europe. West Ham are also rumoured to be interested in Chamakh.
In other news Tim Cahill may be rocking up at Sunderland on loan from the New York Red Bulls while Newcastle will continue their policy of French raids by signing Marseille’s Loic Remy to replace Demba Ba.
Alright, that’s your lot. Super Mario has just turned up for training at Manchester City so we have to go and see what happens today.
