Transfer news, rumours and gossip from Friday's papers
Published 09:02 02/07/10 By Football Spy
Stories from today's Daily Mirror
Benayoun ties up £70k-a-week Chelsea deal
West Ham prepare new moves for TWO French strikers
West Ham make improved £16m bid for Brazilian wonderkid
Arsenal braced for Fab bid from new Barca president Rosell
Man City target Dzeko begs Wolfsburg to let him go
Stoke start summer clear-out by offloading Griffin and Simonsen
Everton wonderkid to join Oldham on loan
Internet rumours of Terry-Gerrard private life rift are rubbish - Exclusive
Stories from today's other papers and around the web
Roy Hodgson will make a £15m joint bid for two Real Madrid Dutchmen - left-back Royston Drenthe and attacking midfielder Rafael van der Vaart (ElfFoetball)
Liverpool are battling Spurs for the signature of Galatasaray winger Arda Turan (The Sun)
The Reds have rejected a £5m Juventus move for Rafa Benitez's pal Albert Riera (Daily Mail)
Arsenal have joined Juventus and Bayern Munich in tracking Monaco keeper Stephane Ruffier (Football-Actu)
Manchester City can have Lazio left back Aleksandar Kolarov after Real Madrid turned their attentions to Chelsea's Ashley Cole instead (Daily Mail).
West Brom have laughed off West Ham 's £4.5m bid for highly-rated midfielder Graham Dorrans . They want £10m (The Sun)
Sam Allardyce wants to bring Rangers striker Kris Boyd to Blackburn (Daily Express)
Stoke are going back in for Joe Ledley , who is out of contract at Cardiff. The Potters had a £6m bid rejected two years ago but he can now leave for nothing (The Sun)
Celtic boss Neil Lennon is also chasing Ledley, as well as Hull's Jimmy Bullard , Arsenal's S ol Campbell , Stoke's Liam Lawrence and Fulham's Diomansy Kamara . He's already snapped up Aberdeen's Charlie Mulgrew and South Korea right back Ca-Du-Ri (Daily Record)
New boys Blackpool are chasing a £1m move for West Ham's Danny Gabbidon , but Hameur Bouazza is set to walk out for Paris St Germain (The Sun)
Portsmouth want Lazio to double their £5m joint bid for K evin-Prince Boateng and Nadir Belhadj (Daily Star)
New Pompey boss Steve Cotterill says he's confident of keeping David James at Fratton Park (Daily Mail)
Alan Curbishley' s chances of taking over as Fulham boss look like being torpedoed by feuds with his former Charlton and West Ham players Danny Murphy and Paul Konchesky (Independent)





