TRANSFER RUMOURS! 28th October
StrumSolo > 28/10/2014, 18:11
Ever since Rafa Benitez took Pepe Reina to Napoli on loan that time, any unsettled player with a Liverpool connection has invariably been linked with a similar move. Today it's Mario Balotelli's turn, and he'll join in January for £10m apparently. Still waiting on Lucas, Johnson and Agger though, and I'm sure Henderson was touted at some point too, before he got good.
Spurs are still keen on Jay Rodriguez and will bid £15m in January. And in a separate bit of tat, the Saints are readying a £10m offer for Harry Kane. Should get together and sort out a swap deal really. Once that's sorted, Spurs will get back to what Spurs do best, signing quite-decent-but-nothing-special midfielders. Namely, Leverkusen's Germany international Christoph Kramer, who either sounds like a troubled detective in a continental crime thriller or an avant-garde musician from the late 70s. Kraftwerk and that.
Here's another move that won't solve any problems; Pedro to Arsenal for £25m. Wenger's keen on Winston Reid by the sounds of it too, but if he had to pick... Alternatively, they'll take advantage of Man Utd's cooling interest in Mats Hummels and sign him instead. Seems unlikely though.
Man City have joined the long queue forming at the gates of Sami Khedira, Ryan Giggs has been in Turkey checking out Trabzonspor's Ghana forward Abdul Majeed Waris, and Clint Dempsey will have a bit of a loan at either QPR, Villa or Stoke while he waits for the MLS to get going again.