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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jacob Steinberg

Football transfer rumours: Pep Guardiola to snub Chelsea and Manchester City?

Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola is fine where he is, thank you very much. Photograph: Sven Hoppe/dpa/Corbis

Paris Saint-Germain are ready to give acting’s Cristiano Ronaldo a whopping £250,000 a week after tax to join them this summer. Just think how many more films he can make with that kind of money! He’ll be closing in on the Police Academy record soon enough and it is not possible to be grateful enough for that.

Did you know that Sven Goran-Eriksson is the manager of Shanghai SIPG? Weeeelllllllllll, it’s true, and he wants to be reunited with artist formerly know as The White Pelé. That’s right, Wayne Rooney is heading to China! Sven and Wazza in China. There’s a documentary in that, possibly to be produced and directed by Cristiano Ronaldo.

Pep Guardiola is going to disappoint Chelsea and Manchester City by scrawling his name on a contract that will keep him at Bayern Munich until 2017. That’s a weird decision from Bayern given that Brendan Rodgers is available.

Arsenal are eyeing up Internazionale’s Mauro Icardi and whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Can he play in defensive midfield?

Arsenal have also been linked Alexandre Pato. Can he play in defensive midfield?

A new low for Chelsea: their search for someone to take over Radamel Falcao’s role in the squad has led them to being snubbed by Fenerbahce’s Robin van Persie, who lost the ability to run in early 2013.

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