Rumours 23rd Dec

Arsenal attacker Nicklas Bendtner has issued a warning regarding his future at Emirates Stadium. There is plenty of competition for places with The Gunners as Emmanuel Adebayor and Robin van Persie are usually the preferred strike duo. “It is quite clear that my priority is to play football fast,” he told Sporten. More…

The Doriani are eager to bring Pazzo to Liguria and might use their skipper as a bargaining chip. It is reported that the hitman could join the Doriani next month for a transfer fee in the region of €10 million, with Palombo moving to Florence next summer, but the negotiations are still at an early stage and all the details have yet to be sorted out. More…

West Ham United signed Valon Behrami from Lazio this summer, but the duo of Italian giants are allegedly keen to reel him back to the peninsula next month. The Premier League outfit paid 6 million euros to secure Behrami’s services in the summer, and the club directors are reportedly demanding around 8 million euros to complete the transaction, but the Turin-based newspaper believes that Juve are aiming to shave at least another million off the price. More…

In Italian soccer, a bidone is known as a dud, a flop. And when it comes to British players in Italy since World War II, the bidoni have been the rule. Now that David Beckham has arrived in Italy, on a loan deal between Major League Soccer and A.C. Milan that is supposed to last until March, the Rossoneri, as the club is known, is in the spotlight more for its off-the-field luster than its mediocre performance on the field. More…

William Gallas’ future seems to lie away from Arsenal after a public outburst that saw him dropped from the squad and stripped of the captain’s armband last month. British newspaper The Times has claimed that the 31-year-old is almost certain to leave the Gunners, as he is desperate for a move away following a torrid time over the past few months. More…

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