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08th Jul 2013

Transfer Talk: Arsenal bid for Suarez, Odemwingie heads to London again and Man U sign Usain Bolt (sort of)

It’s some day when a Peter Odemwingie story is the most normal transfer gossip of the lot...

JOE

It’s some day when a Peter Odemwingie story is the most normal transfer gossip of the lot…

It was last Wednesday evening when the first stories about Luis Suarez to Arsenal popped up. The bookies ‘slashed’ their odds after a ‘flood’ of money on the move and the papers duly followed up with stories on Thursday and Friday.

Over the weekend Chelsea seemed to be the latest favourites to nab the wantaway Uruguayan but today’s papers appear to bring confirmation that Arsenal did bid for the striker last week.

According to the Telegraph, in a story rapidly picked up by all the papers, Arsenal offered Liverpool £30million for Suarez last week, but the bid has been rejected. With Liverpool repeating again and again that Suarez is not for sale it should be no surprise that the deal was dismissed but the move has everyone questioning Arsenal’s motives.

Surely they knew that they couldn’t prise Liverpool’s prize asset away for less than £40m. Is it all just to light a fire under Real Madrid’s arse, thus speeding Gonzalo Higuain’s move to the Emirates? Who knows but the summer’s most intriguing, and probably most drawn out, transfer saga has a new wrinkle in it.

If Suarez is the star of this window so far, surely the king of the January deadline day was Peter Odemwingie. The West Brom striker was one step short of banging on the door at QPR begging to be signed before having to hop back into his car and have the mother of all awkward training sessions with the Baggies the next day.

But with the arrival of the always cheery Nicolas Anelka at the Hawthorns it seems the Nigerian striker is finally set to get his dream move to London. Newly promoted Crystal Palace are set to offer £2.5m for him, according to the Mirror, and we reckon that should do the trick.

In news that puts the mundane into Monday we have the same paper reporting that Hull and Fulham are chasing Sunderland’s Lee ‘Yellow Card’ Cattermole, while the same two clubs, plus Newcastle, are after Darren Bent.

We would shout ‘Holt the back page’ but buried deep in the snippets section of the Sun is the news that Grant Holt could be on his way from Norwich to Wigan and the Mirror says that Jay Spearing is leaving Liverpool for Blackburn.

Finally, in news that is only news because it is July, Usain Bolt has signed for Manchester United. Or one game at least. The world’s fastest man is set to line out for the club in Rio Ferdinand’s testimonial , against Sevilla, on August 9, according to the Metro.

Apparently the Jamaican is a big United fan so at least he’ll have a great night. The Sevilla defenders may not though…