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01st Jul 2013

Transfer Talk: Richard Dunne has a Premier League suitor, Spurs get busy and advice for Rooney

Today’s the day that the summer transfer window officially opens so today’s papers should be full of done deals, right? Not really...

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Today’s the day that the summer transfer window officially opens so today’s papers should be full of done deals, right? Not really…

We moved our official ‘Richard Dunne’s footballing future-ometer’ from ‘moderately concerned’ to ‘seriously concerned’ when the best we saw last week was a half-hearted quote from Derby’s Nigel Clough that he might be interested in the 33-year-old defender.

After his release from Aston Villa earlier this summer we had hoped that one of the Premier League new-boys would fancy giving the Dubliner another shot in the Premier League. It seems those hopes may have some life nowas today’s Daily Mail reports that Hull are ‘keen’ on the free agent.

With Steve Bruce at the helm they should know a thing or two about grizzled centre backs so we hope this story has more than an hint of truth to it.

Elsewhere we have a few new names in the transfer loop today. In pretty much every paper Tottenham are linked with Dinamo Zagreb defender Tin Jedvaj and midfielder Alen Halilovic. The two lads are both 17 and are ‘highly rated’ according to every article we read today. Spurs are said to have offered £15million for the pair but the deal would include loaning the duo back to the Croatian side until they turned 18.

In other Spurs business the London Times say that Andre Villas Boas is burning through his call credit to try and persuade David Villa to swap Barcelona for White Hart Lane. That move may be prompted by the fact that long-time Spurs target Leandro Damiao is now being heavily linked with a move to Southampton. However today’s Metro reports that Damiao’s current club, Internacional, say they have had no contact with the Saints. To be honest, we’re just glad that the 23-year-old striker is back in the rumours, a transfer window just isn’t the same without him.

And the Wayne Rooney stories simply won’t go away either, though perhaps they will this week when his new gaffer David Moyes finally gets his feet under the Old Trafford table. Today you have two stories floating around as Brazilian superstar Neymar has said he would love the England man to play with him at Barca while a former team-mate, Gary Neville, tells the Sun that Rooney should stay at United. Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?

In the less glamourous end of rumour town Wigan are after Liverpool’s Jay Spearing (all papers), Darren  Bent fancies a move to Newcastle (Telegraph) and Danny Murphy will leave Blackburn (Mirror).

Finally, in ‘I genuinely didn’t know he was still there news’ Pavel Pogrebnyak has said he may leave relegated Reading. Considering he last scored a goal on January 12th, don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out Pavel…