TRANSFER RUMOURS! 31st March
StrumSolo > 31/03/2014, 13:09
Jose Mourinho's had just about enough of his rag-tag crew of strikers. They all drew blanks (again) at the weekend, so come the summer we'll be waving goodbye to Fernando Torres, Demba Ba and Samuel Eto'o. Romelu Lukaku too, which seems a bit harsh, what with him being out on loan and actually playing pretty well. Everton may well bulk at the £20m asking price though, and swapsies for Ross Barkley probably wasn't what they had in mind either. Still, if all else fails, Loic Remy's available.
Ashley Cole and John Obi Mikel could be off too. One of them to Real Madrid and the other to Galatasaray. No prizes for guessing which and which.
Are Chelsea being too hasty in letting Cashley go though? Says here that Luke Shaw will turn them down in favour of Man Utd, who'll free up some cash by loaning Shinji Kagawa back to Dortmund and letting Wilfried Zaha crack on too.
You can add Dejan Lovren's name to the ever-growing list of Southampton departures, Liverpool are in for him and his Croatia team-mate Mateo Kovacic too. The Inter midfielder will cost £8m.
Arsenal may or may not have finalised an £8m deal for Nuremberg striker Josip Drmic, and if Thomas Vermaelen packs it in, Swansea centre half Ashley Williams could be the man to replace him. The Swans, meanwhile, will look to make Jonathan de Guzman's loan move from Villareal permanent after he scored a couple at the weekend.
Bidding war for Lazio midfielder Antonio Candreva! Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United are slugging that one out.
Micah Richards though, he can only dream of bidding wars. So it'll have to be Newcastle for him, unopposed.