Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City on alert as Kaka eyes January move from Real Madrid

Kaka is set to be offered a January move to England after failing to live up to  expectations at Real Madrid.

Inter Milan had looked the most likely destination for the Brazil playmaker, but the Italians are ready to ditch their interest for fears of intense competition from Barclays Premier League sides looking to make an impact signing when the transfer window reopens.

Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti is a confirmed admirer of the 28-year-old, while Manchester City and Liverpool have also been identified as potential destinations.

Tottenham Hotspur to join £15m race for Real Madrid hitman Benzema

Sources in France have revealed that Tottenham Hotspur are also in the hunt for want-away Real Madrid hitman Karim Benzema. The striker has been the subject of much transfer speculation, with rumours of numerous clubs such as Manchester United, Inter Milan and Juventus interested, and on the prowl.

With Tottenham Hotspur manager, Harry Redknapp wanting to boost his strike force for next season, Benzema has been added to his wish list despite the players reported on/off temperament. With the likes of Robbie Keane and Roman Pavlyuchenko not performing to the sort of standards the White Hart lane require, Redknapp has almost been forced to change his hand, especially where strikers are concerned.

Sanchez open to United move

Udinese star Alexis Sanchez has revealed that he would 'like to play for Manchester United'.

Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson has reportedly been tracking the attacking Chilean international for some time.

Sanchez  could be one of Ferguson's prime targets in the January transfer window, although 'the Wonder Boy' is under contract with the Italian club until 2014.

January 2010 English Premier League Transfers

Last Updated: 5 February 2010

Arsenal
In: Sol Campbell (unattached), Samuel Galindo (undisclosed, Real America)
Out: Kerrea Gilbert (loan, Peterborough United), Jack Wilshere (loan, Bolton Wanderers)
Aston Villa Transfers
In:
Out: Barry Bannan (loan extension, Blackpool), Craig Gardner (3m, Birmingham City), Nicky Shorey (loan, Fulham)
Birmingham City Transfers
In: Michel (3m, Sporting Gijon), Craig Gardner (3m, Aston Villa)
Out: Krystian Pearce (loan, Huddersfield Town), Jordan Mutch (loan, Doncaster Rovers), Martin Taylor (free, Watford), Gary McSheffrey (loan, Leeds), Damien Johnson (free, Plymouth Argyle), Marcus Bent (loan, Queens Park Rangers)
Blackburn Rovers Transfer
In: Amine Linganzi (free, St. Etienne), Yildiray Basturk (loan, Vfb Stuttgart)
Out: Andrew Haworth (loan, Rochdale), Gavin Gunning (loan, Rotherham United), Marcus Marshall (loan, Rotherham United), Zurab Khizanishvili (loan, Reading), Frank Fielding (loan, Rochdale)
Bolton Wanderers Transfer
In: Stuart Holden (free, Houston Dynamo), Vladimir Weiss (loan, Manchester City), Jack Wilshere (loan, Arsenal)
Out: Nicky Hunt (loan, Derby County)
Burnley
In: Frederic Nimani (loan, AS Monaco), Leon Cort (1.5m, Stoke City), Nicky Weaver (free, Dundee United), Danny Fox (undisclosed, Celtic), David Nugent (loan, Portsmouth), Jack Cork (loan, Chelsea)
Out: Brian Easton (loan, Hamilton), Jay Rodriguez (loan, Barnsley), Jonathan Lund (loan, Rotherham)
Chelsea Transfers
In:
Out: Tom Taiwo (undisclosed, Carlisle United), Jack Cork (loan, Burnley)
Everton Transfers
In:
Out: Jo (loan return, Manchester City)
Fulham Transfers
In: Nicky Shorey (loan, Aston Villa), Stefano Okaka (loan, AS Roma), Cristopher Buchtmann (undisclosed, Liverpool)
Out: Chris Smalling (undisclosed, Manchester United), Diomansy Kamara (loan, Celtic), Toni Kallio (loan, Sheffield United), Wayne Brown (loan, Bristol Rovers)
Hull City
In: Amr Zaki (loan, Zamalek)
Out: Nathan Doyle (free, Barnsley), Daniel Cousin (loan, Larissa), Peter Halmosi (loan, Szombathely Haladas)
Liverpool Transfers
In: Maxi Rodriguez (free, Atletico Madrid)
Out: Andriy Voronin (1.8m, Dynamo Moscow), Andrea Dossena (undisclosed, Napoli), Nathan Eccleston (loan, Huddersfield Town), Christopher Buchtmann (undisclosed, Fulham)
Manchester City Transfers
In: Jo (loan return, Everton), Patrick Vieira (undisclosed, Inter Milan), Adam Johnson (6m, Middlesbrough)
Out: Felipe Caicedo (loan, Malaga), Jo (loan, Galatasaray), Vladimir Weiss (loan, Bolton), Donal McDermott (loan, Scunthorpe United), Robinho (loan, Santos), Javan Vidal (loan, Derby County), Benjani (loan, Sunderland)
Manchester United Transfers
In: Chris Smalling (undisclosed, Fulham), Mame Biram Diouf (loan return, Molde)
Out: Danny Simpson (undisclosed, Newcastle United), Danny Welbeck (loan, Preston North End)
Portsmouth
In: Jamie O’Hara (loan, Tottenham), Ricardo Rocha (free, Standard Liege)
Out: Marlon Pack (loan, Dagenham & Redbridge), Paris Cowan-Hall (loan, Grimsby Town), Luke Wilkinson (loan, Northampton Town), Mike Williamson (undisclosed, Newcastle United), Younes Kaboul (undisclosed, Portsmouth), Asmir Begovic (3.25m, Stoke City), David Nugent (loan, Burnley)
Stoke City Transfers
In: Asmir Begovic (3.25m, Portsmouth)
Out: Richard Cresswell (undisclosed, Sheffield United), Andy Griffin (loan, Reading), Leon Cort (1.5m, Burnley), Michael Tonge (loan, Derby County), Ben Marshall (loan, Carlisle United)
Sunderland Transfers
In: Matthew Kigallon (1.75m, Sheffield United), Alan Hutton (loan, Tottenham), Benjani (loan, Manchester City)
Out: Jack Colback (loan extension, Ipswich Town), Russell Anderson (free, Derby County), Daryl Murphy (loan, Ipswich Town), David Healy (loan, Ipswich Town), Nyron Nosworthy (loan, Sheffield United)
Tottenham Hotspur Transfers
In: Younes Kaboul (undisclosed, Portsmouth)
Out: Sam Cox (loan, Torquay), Andros Townsend (loan, MK Dons), Jake Livermore (loan, Peterborough United), Alan Hutton (loan, Sunderland), Robbie Keane (loan, Celtic), Kyle Naughton (loan, Middlesbrough), Troy Archibald-Henville (undisclosed, Exeter City), Jamie O’Hara (loan, Portsmouth)
West Ham United Transfers
In: Benni McCarthy (undisclosed, Blackburn Rovers), Mido (loan, Middlesbrough), Ilan (free, St. Etienne)
Out: Nigel Quashie (free, Queens Park Rangers), Josh Payne (loan, Wycombe)
Wigan Transfers
In: Vladimir Stojkovic (loan, Sporting Lisbon), Steve Gohouri (unattached), Gary Caldwell (500k, Celtic), Marcelo Moreno Martins (loan, Shakhtar Donetsk), Victor Moses (2.5m, Crystal Palace)
Out: Olivier Kapo (loan, Boulogne), Daniel de Ridder (loan, Hapoel Tel Aviv)
Wolverhampton Wanderers Transfers
In: Geoffrey Mujangi Bia (loan, Charleroi), Adlene Guedioura (loan, Charleroi)
Out: Darren Ward (free, Millwall), Neill Collins (undisclosed, Preston North End), Carl Ikeme (loan, Queens Park Rangers), Matt Hill (loan, Queens Park Rangers)

Man Utd Ready To Axe Tevez

Manchester United are ready to axe Argentine starlet Carlos Tevez in favour of a striker that can score at least 20 goals a season.

Argentina international Tevez is currently on a two-year-long loan at Old Trafford, and Sir Alex Ferguson has the option of buying him at the end of that loan, next summer.

The only problem is that Tevez will cost Man Utd around £34m, and it has been reported that Ferguson is not willing to meet that price tag set by the player's owner Kia Joorabchian.

This could mean that Ferguson is ready to axe Tevez and find himself a striker that can score 20 plus goals a season. The rumoured, big-name candidates are David Villa, Karim Benzema and Klaas Jan Huntelaar.

David Villa has just signed a new contract at Valencia and is unlikely to move anytime soon, but Ferguson is reportedly keen on the 26-year-old Spanish star. The player claimed during the summer that he was a big fan of Arsenal and said he would be happy to play with them, and Liverpool apparently made an approach towards him in the summer, but Valencia repelled them and Villa decided to extend his stay at the Mestalla.

Klaas Jan Huntelaar is reportedly in negotiations to sign a new deal with his current club Ajax, and looks unlikely to leave, and Karim Benzema of Lyon has spoken of his desire to stay at Lyon and win a European title with the French champions.

This means that Man United's search for an out and out striker continues and Tevez could well be the one to suffer if they do find their man.

English Premier League Transfers 2008-09

English Premier League 08/09 Transfers

Player	From	To	Price (Euros)
Aaron Ramsey	Cardiff City	Arsenal	undisclosed
Amaury Bischoff	Werder Bremen	Arsenal	undisclosed
Mikael Silvestre	Manchester United	Arsenal	undisclosed
Samir Nasri	Marseille	Arsenal	€15million
Brad Friedel	Tottenham	Aston Villa	€3.5million
Brad Guzan	Chivas USA	Aston Villa	undisclosed
Carlos Cuellar	Rangers	Aston Villa	€14.7million
James Milner	Newcastle	Aston Villa	€12.4million
Luke Young	Middlesbrough	Aston Villa	€7.7million
Nicky Shorey	Reading	Aston Villa	€4.5million
Steve Sidwell	Chelsea	Aston Villa	€6.3million
Carlos Villanueva	Audax Italiano	Blackburn	Loan
Danny Simpson	Manchester United	Blackburn	Loan
Keith Andrews	MK Dons	Blackburn	undisclosed
Paul Robinson	Tottenham	Blackburn	€4.5million
Vincenzo Grella	Torino	Blackburn	€5million
Ebi Smolarek	Racing Santander	Bolton	Loan
Fabrice Muamba	Birmingham	Bolton	€6.3million
Johan Elmander	Toulouse	Bolton	€13.8million
Deco	Barcelona	Chelsea	€10million
Fabio Paim	Sporting Lisbon	Chelsea	Loan
José Bosingwa	FC Porto	Chelsea	€20.5million
Lars Jacobsen	Nurnberg	Everton	Free
Louis Saha	Manchester United	Everton	undisclosed
Marouane Fellaini	Standard Liege	Everton	€18.5million
Segundo Castillo	Red Star Belgrade	Everton	Loan
Andy Johnson	Everton	Fulham	€15.2million
Bobby Zamora	West Ham	Fulham	undisclosed
David Stockdale	Darlington	Fulham	undisclosed
Dickson Etuhu	Sunderland	Fulham	undisclosed
Fredrik Stoor	Rosenborg	Fulham	undisclosed
John Pantsil	West Ham	Fulham	undisclosed
Julian Gray	Coventry City	Fulham	Loan
Mark Schwarzer	Middlesbrough	Fulham	Free
Toni Kallio	Young Boys	Fulham	undisclosed
Zoltan Gera	West Brom	Fulham	Free
Anthony Gardner	Tottenham	Hull City	€3.1million
Bernard Mendy	Paris Saint-Germain	Hull City	Free
George Boateng	Middlesbrough	Hull City	1.25million
Kamil Zayatte	Young Boys	Hull City	Loan
Marlon King	Wigan Athletic	Hull City	Loan
Peter Halmosi	Plymouth Argyle	Hull City	€2.5million
Tony Warner	Fulham	Hull City	Free
Albert Riera	Espanyol	Liverpool	€10million
Andrea Dossena	Udinese	Liverpool	€8.8million
David Ngog	Paris Saint Germain	Liverpool	€1.9million
Diego Cavalieri	Palmeiras	Liverpool	undisclosed
Nikola Saric	Herfolge	Liverpool	undisclosed
Peter Gulacsi	MTK Hungaria	Liverpool	undisclosed
Philipp Degen	Borussia Dortmund	Liverpool	Free
Robbie Keane	Tottenham	Liverpool	€25.8million
Vitor Flora	Botafogo	Liverpool	undisclosed
Zsolt Poloskei	MTK Budapest	Liverpool	Loan
Glauber Berti	Nurnberg	Manchester City	Loan
Jo	CSKA Moscow	Manchester City	€19.5million
Pablo Zabaleta	Espanyol	Manchester City	€8.4million
Robinho	Real Madrid	Manchester City	€40million
Shaun Wright-Phillips	Chelsea	Manchester City	€12.4million
Tal Ben Haim	Chelsea	Manchester City	€7.6million
Vincent Kompany	Hamburg	Manchester City	undisclosed
Dimitar Berbatov	Tottenham	Mancester United	€38million
Fabio	Fluminese	Manchester United	undisclosed
Rafael	Fluminese	Manchester United	undisclosed
Didier Digard	Paris Saint Germain	Middlesbrough	€5million
Justin Hoyte	Arsenal	Middlesbrough	€3million
Marvin Emnes	Sparta Rotterdam	Middlesbrough	€4million
Danny Guthrie	Liverpool	Newcastle	undisclosed
Fabricio Coloccini	Deportivo La Coruna	Newcastle	€12million
Ignacio Gonzalez	Valencia	Newcastle	Loan
Jonas Gutierrez	Real Mallorca	Newcastle	undisclosed
Sebastien Bassong	Metz	Newcastle	undisclosed
Armand Traore	Arsenal	Portsmouth	Loan
Ben Sahar	Chelsea	Portsmouth	Loan
Glen Little	Reading	Portsmouth	Free
James Hurst	West Bromwich	Portsmouth	undisclosed
Jerome Thomas	Charlton	Portsmouth	undisclosed
Nadir Belhadj	Lens	Portsmouth	Loan
Omar Koroma	Banjul Hawks	Portsmouth	undisclosed
Peter Crouch	Liverpool	Portsmouth	€13.8million
Younes Kaboul	Tottenham	Portsmouth	€6.4million
Abdoulaye Faye	Newcastle	Stoke City	€2.9million
Amdy Faye	Charlton	Stoke City	undisclosed
Andrew Davies	Southamption	Stoke City	€1.9million
Danny Higginbotham	Sunderland	Stoke City	undisclosed
Dave Kitson	Reading	Stoke City	€6.9million
Ibrahima Sonko	Reading	Stoke City	€2.5million
Thomas Sorensen	Aston Villa	Stoke City	Free
Anton Ferdinand	West Ham	Sunderland	€10million
David Healy	Fulham	Sunderland	undisclosed
David Meyler	Cork City	Sunderland	€200,000
Djibril Cisse	Marseille	Sunderland	Loan
El-Hadji Diouf	Bolton	Sunderland	€3.8million
George McCartney	West Ham	Sunderland	undisclosed
Nick Colgan	Ipswich	Sunderland	Free
Pascal Chimbonda	Tottenham	Sunderland	undisclosed
Steed Malbranque	Tottenham	Sunderland	undisclosed
Teemu Tainio	Tottenham	Sunderland	undisclosed
Cesar Sanchez	Real Zaragoza	Tottenham	undisclosed
David Bentley	Blackburn	Tottenham	€19million
Fraizer Campbell	Manchester United	Tottenham	Loan
Giovani Dos Santos	Barcelona	Tottenham	€6million
John Bostock	Crysal Palace	Tottenham	€875,000
Luca Modric	Dinamo Zagreb	Tottenham	€21.2million
Paul-Jose Mpoku	Standard Liege	Tottenham	undisclosed
Roman Pavlyuchenko	Spartak Moscow	Tottenham	€17million
Vedran Corluka	Manchester City	Tottenham	undisclosed
Abdoulaye Meite	Bolton	West Bromwich	€2.6million
Borja Valero	Real Mallorca	West Bromwich	€6million
Gianni Zuiverloon	Heerenveen	West Bromwich	€4million
Jonas Olsson	NEC Nijmegen	West Bromwich	€900,000
Kim Do-Heon	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	West Bromwich	€690,000
Luke Moore	Aston Villa	West Bromwich	€4.4million
Marek Cech	Porto	West Bromwich	€1.8million
Roman Bednar	Hearts	West Bromwich	€3.2million
Ryan Donk	AZ Alkmaar	West Bromwich	Loan
Scott Carson	Liverpool	West Bromwich	€4million
Balint Bajner	Liberty Arad	West Ham	undisclosed
David Di Michele	Torino	West Ham	Loan
Herita Ilunga	Toulouse	West Ham	Loan
Jan Lastuvka	Shakhtar Donetsk	West Ham	Loan
Orn Eyjolffson	HK Kopavogur	West Ham	undisclosed
Valon Behrami	Lazio	West Ham	€6.3million
Amr Zaki	Zamalek	Wigan Athletic	€7.5million
Daniel De Ridder	Birmingham City	Wigan Athletic	Free
Oliver Kapo	Birmingham City	Wigan Athletic	€4.3million

Torres In Man City Snub?

Reports suggest that Fernando Torres has rebuffed advances from spend-happy Manchester City...

Spanish daily Marca reports that prolific Liverpool striker Fernando Torres instructed his management company to rebuff Manchester City's recent interest.

Cash-rich City supremo Sulaiman Al Fahim apparently called the Euro 2008 star's management team, Bahia, to make his interest in their client clear and promise that the Spaniard's current wages would be doubled at Eastlands. This would mean that Torres could potentially earn £200,000 per week.

The Sheikh was stunned by Liverpool's Torres-led comeback win at the City of Manchester Stadium recently, wherein the hitman bagged a deadly double. Now, he wants the former Atleti star to be a part of the all-star City squad he's planning.

However, Torres told City, via his managers, that he won't be leaving Anfield, regardless of the ridiculous amounts of money promised. He is apparently not interested in the City project in the slightest.

The newspaper continues to say that Torres could still leave Liverpool in the summer, especially if boss Rafa Benitez doesn't stay on for another term in the hotseat. The Reds are keen to extend his deal, which runs till 2014, but the 24-year-old is very relectant.

Rumours linked Torres with a switch to rivals Chelsea over the summer, with the Blues willing to pay up to £85m for his services.

Liam Black, Goal.com