With midfield letdown Oscar potentially on the move to Shanghai Shenhua, Chelsea players have become a must have accessory for Chinese clubs with more money than sense. John Terry yesterday, Cesc Fàbregas today. The Spaniard is a £40m target for Guangzhou Evergrande, who are managed by former Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari and who presumably already have Michael Duberry, Bjarne Goldbaek, Jiri Jarosik and Robert Fleck in their squad.
Arsenal have offered Alexis Sánchez a new deal worth £180,000-a-week. The Chilean has looked the contract up and down, scrunched it up into a little ball and chucked it in Ivan Gazidis’s face. He wants £250,000-a-week. Is that really too much to ask?
Dilly ding, dilly dong, run along. That’s right, Claudio Ranieri is
preparing a clear out at Leicester City in a bid to reverse the ailing
champions’ fortunes. Sunderland and Swansea City are vying for Leonardo
Ulloa, while West Bromwich Albion fancy Jeffrey Schlupp. West Brom are also
eyeing Brentford striker Scott Hogan as they continue their push for world
domination.
West Ham United want Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson. But so do Everton, so
Slaven Bilic and Ronald Koeman have agreed it’s pistols at dawn, unless one
of them sleeps through his alarm and keeps pressing the snooze button.
Stoke City want to sign Lee Grant on a permanent basis from Derby County.
And finally, Manchester United are lining up moves for Benfica’s Victor
Lindelof and Southampton’s José Fonte, while Borussia Mönchengladbach have taken one look at Bastian Schweinsteiger’s Twitter feed and decided that they’ll be continuing their search for a new midfielder.
