Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Football News-Transfer stories in the Premier League surround Chelsea and Manchester United.

If Turin-based Tuttosport is to be believed, then they are virtually assured of joining hands once more, this time under the Juventus banner. The newspaper states that Juventus and Chelsea have stuck a deal over the England international player and the player would be transferred in the summer. Ranieri, the Tinkerman, is currently the manager of the Serie B champions and it was the Italian who signed Lampard from West Ham United in 2001 when he was the manager of Chelsea. The newspaper has even gone on to report that Lampard himself has agreed to the deal should his annual wage be raised be raise from $8 million a year to just over $9 million.

The Barcelona-Ronaldinho-Chelsea tug-of-war continues as press speculation mounts on Ronaldinho’s career at Camp Nou. But this time the player himself has come out of the blocks and remarked that he wants to stay at Barcelona and that he and his brother, Roberto de Assiss who also acts as his agent, are looking for an extension to his contract.

The Brazilian international playmaker who recently won the prestigious Ballon d’Or award and is also expected to rack up the FIFA Player of the Year award is unfazed by suggestions that Real Madrid would launch another bid very soon. Kaka says that he prefers to concentrate on the football matter at hand, which is winning the Club World Cup that is taking place in Japan.

So it looks like it’s a take-it-or-leave-it scenario and to leave Manchester United altogether.

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