TRANSFER RUMOURS! 3rd April
StrumSolo > 03/04/2014, 14:36
Eden Hazard wearing a PSG shirt during his post-match interview last night... That's how rumours start, or escalate. We'll soon be hearing a lot less about Thibaut Courtois though, he's making an announcement regarding his future next week. It'll be another season on loan at Atletico, won't it? And he could well be joined there by Fernando Torres. That'll be a loan too, on account of no-one wanting to pay the £20m transfer fee or match his £175k a week salary. Understandable.
Word is that a £40m summer bid from Man Utd might be enough to make Bayern Munich part with Toni Kroos, with the midfielder then entering the last 12 months of his contract. Lucky United. They're also keen on Alen Halilovic, and City are too. The Croatian youngster had agreed to join Barcelona, but they've since been handed a transfer ban which has thrown the deal in to doubt.
Arsene Wenger's got a £100m war-chest. He'll spend none of it on Younes Kaboul (Bosman, baby!) and the rest on some combination of Diego Costa, Josip Drmic, Mario Mandzukic, Julian Draxler and Jackson Martinez. Or, he'll just settle for Salomon Kalou once all of those have fallen through.
AC Milan signing Adel Taarabt on loan was unfortunate, but paying £3m to make the deal permanent is just careless.
Everton are after Sevilla's £9m-rated striker Carlos Bacca, and lastly, Wilfried Zaha could be headed back to Crystal Palace.