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Liverpool are lining up a £3million summer swoop for Rangers kid Danny Wilson. SunSport can reveal the Kop giants have been monitoring the brilliant 18-year-old defender’s progress this season. Now they have decided they will wade in with a bid for the centre-back, who is in the frame to be Scotland’s Young Player of the Year. That will rock reigning champs Gers, who were desperate to tie Wilson up on a long-term deal this week. The youngster – also being tracked by Spurs, Manchester City and Aston Villa – has just 15 months to run on his current deal.

Source: The Sun

Chelsea veteran Deco is a summer target for Brazilian club Fluminese. Portugal star Deco, 32, has another season left on his contract at Stamford Bridge but the Brazilian club are trying to sign him on the cheap. Flamingo and Corinthians are also interested in the Brazilian-born midfielder who is tempted by one last contract back in his native country. Deco’s agent Acaz Felleger has confirmed that Fluminese have been in contact and says the decision is now up to Chelsea. Felleger said: “Contact has been made but there has been nothing formal yet. We have had other propositions from Brazil but we will wait until the end of the season so Deco can concentrate on football.”

Source: The Mirror

Blackburn Rovers are ready to sign striker Aruna Dindane in a £2 million deal – and let him play on for Portsmouth to save his FA Cup and World Cup dreams. Boss Sam Allardyce is set to tie up a move for Dindane with French club Lens, who have loaned him to crisis-hit Pompey for the season, and the fee could be agreed today. Pompey have told Dindane he cannot play for them again as his loan move from Lens would have to become a permanent transfer at £4 million if he makes another appearance. Dindane is distraught as he wanted to help Avram Grant’s club in the FA Cup semi final against Tottenham and also play on to keep alive his chances of making Ivory Coast’s squad for the World Cup finals.

Source: The Mirror

Liverpool are apparently keen on bringing Spanish legend Raul to Anfield. Rafa Benitez has reportedly sent out the feelers on a potential bid to snap up the Real Madrid veteran this summer. Having played his entire professional career at the Bernabeu Benitez is hoping to secure the 32 year old for free in the hopes that the striker would be interested in one final pay day before hanging up his well worn boots. Having collected just about every winners medal available to him Raul may well be keen on trying a new challenge before calling time on a career that has seen him net an incredible 311 goals for the La Liga giants and Rafa is known to be an admirer of the Spanish international from when his Valencia side came up against the Madridsta. The fact that Liverpool already have a plethora of fellow countrymen may also help sway Raul into making a sensational move to Merseyside. The possibility to forming a partnership with current Spanish favourite Fernando Torres, and former Atletico Madrid man, may also prove very tempting and an added bonus for the financially burdened club is that such a move wouldn’t break the bank given the players age and the willingness of Real Madrid to grant the wishes of a player who has served them so well for 16 years.

Source: Caught Offside

Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has stepped up the chase for Athletic Bilbao midfielder Javi Martinez. Martinez, 21, has been on Liverpool’s radar for the past two seasons but Benitez is putting together his hit-list for next season. Liverpool sent a scout to watch Martinez at Atletico Madrid last Thursday and Bilbao are well aware of Benitez’s interest. Bilbao coach Joaquin Caparros said: “Javier is a monster of a player and can go very far.”

Source: The Mirror

Eidur Gudjohnsen has been told to forget about making his loan move to Tottenham permanent. The Icelandic striker joined from Monaco in January until the end of the season but Gudjohnsen says he is enjoying his time in England and would consider making the move permanent. He claimed at the weekend there was an agreement in place that would enable him to move to White Hart Lane permanently but his club Monaco insist Gudjohnsen will return to the Ligue 1 club when his deal ends. A Monaco spokesman said: “We are pleased that Eidur is enjoying his time in England but we expect him to come back, we want him to. “Monaco are not interested in negotiations for a permanent move and will ignore any bids. He has a future here.”

Source: Daily Mail

Portsmouth are trying to sell Nadir Belhadj to Russian side Spartak Moscow today – but a huge chunk of the money will have to go to his former club Lens. Pompey hope to agree a fee for the Algerian World Cup star with Spartak, who can sign players immediately because they have a different transfer window. Belhadj will be traded as soon as possible as a hamstring injury rules him out of the next few games, including the FA Cup semi-final with Tottenham, and Pompey want to raise funds. However, Lens are still owed money, around £1million, by Portsmouth from the original signing of versatile Belhadj and the French outfit want that settled in full or they will report the matter to the FA and FIFA.

Source: The Mirror

Manchester United target David De Gea has revealed he turned down a move to Wigan last year – in order to keep his dream of replacing Edwin van der Sar alive. The Atletico Madrid goalkeeper is on Sir Alex Ferguson’s radar as the United manager plans for life without Van der Sar, 39. Ferguson has sent scouts to run the rule over De Gea, 19, in recent weeks and the reports have been favourable – and with Ben Foster struggling to live up to his potential, United are on the look out for potential replacements. “All I know is what Atletico have told me – there has been contact between the two clubs,” he said. “I believe now is not the time to move. I was about to go to Wigan last summer but I wanted to remain at Atletico and take my opportunity another time.”

Source: Daily Mail

Alex McLeish is ready to offer Matt Taylor an escape route to Birmingham from Bolton with a £2million bid this summer. Taylor, 28, is unhappy under new boss Owen Coyle and wants to leave. But McLeish will face a tussle with Sunderland chief Steve Bruce for his signature.

Source: The Sun

Steven Taylor will leave Newcastle this summer with Everton and Aston Villa leading the chase. The Toon defender, who had a training ground bust-up with Andy Carroll, has just one year of his current deal left. A club source said: “Newcastle are his team but he will accept that perhaps things have changed recently.” Goodison boss David Moyes tracked the 24-year-old in the summer.

Source: The Sun