LIVERPOOL MOVE FOR ONUOHA
The Sun pick up on a throwaway line from the Sunday papers and run with it.
The paper reports that Liverpool are keen on signing Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha on loan until the end of the season.
If you believe all the stories about City's spending on their defence, Onuoha will slip down the pecking order at Eastlands, and apparently Rafa Benitez wants him to 'prop up' his back line.
Hmmm. Smells like poppycock to us.
What definitely is not poppycock is Andriy Voronin's departure to Dinamo Moscow, which was confirmed yesterday.
POMPEY WANT £14m FOR KABOUL
One would imagine that Portsmouth, in the sort of financial state they're in, would not put unrealistic and frankly cheeky valuations on their players.
Not so, if you believe The Daily Mail.
The paper reports that Pompey have put a £14million - that's £14million - price tag on Younes Kaboul.
Now, he's shown he's not the clown we thought he was at Spurs, but £14million? Come now chaps - don't take the p**s.
Apparently Manchester City and Sunderland are interested in the defender, but one imagines that even the financially-incontinent City will baulk at such a fee.
STOKE MAKE RUUD APPROACH
Quick line from yesterday in case you missed it - Stoke have confirmed that they have made an approach for Ruud van Nistelrooy.
They describe it as a 'long shot', which has to be the understatement of the year. Read all about it here.
THE NEW MAN AT BURNLEY WILL BE...
There is surprisingly little in the papers this morning about the identity of the new Burnley manager, but The Sun help us out with their theory.
They claim that one Paul Ince is a 'shock candidate' for the gig, reporting that 'Clarets officials took soundings over the weekend about the MK Dons chief's availability'.
Despite his somewhat calamitous spell at Blackburn, the paper claims his 'management skills are admired and his ambition remains to boss in the Premier League.'
Bypassing the papers, there are some other candidates on the betting markets, and boy are they surprising.
The current favourite is Brian Laws. That's Brian Laws who was recently sacked from Sheffield Wednesday for being a little bit rubbish. Right.
The second favourite is Lee Clark, manager of Huddersfield, who like Burnley are world-beaters at home, and like Burnley are bobbins away.
Crivens - is this really the best they can do?
£10m FOR RODALLEGA?
More 'decent player but massively over-priced' news now, and The Daily Mirror reports that Stoke and Birmingham are set to duke it out for Wigan's Hugo Rodallega.
And the price? £10million to you, sunshine.
Amusingly the paper claims Stoke's first choice was Kenwyne Jones, but he has been deemed too expensive, while in the same article suggesting with a straight face that £10million for Rodallega is value for money.
AND THE REST...
Birmingham have told Sunderland to drop their demands if they want to offload Kenwyne Jones...Sunderland are ready to swoop for Paraguay striker Salvador Cabanas...Owen Coyle wants Manchester City's Slovakia World Cup winger Vladimir Weiss to be his first loan signing for Bolton...Wolves boss Mick McCarthy wants to sign midfielder Jamie O'Hara from Tottenham...US World Cup hopeful Stuart Holden is in transfer limbo after flying to England to sign for Burnley...West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola will redouble his efforts to bring either Eidur Gudjohnsen or Zenit St Petersburg striker Sergei Kornilenko...Germany striker Kevin Kuranyi has turned down a £3.5million move to Sunderland.