**Summer Transfer Thread: News, Rumours and Speculation**

BBC Transfer Gossip said:
Manchester United full-back Patrice Evra is trying to persuade Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery to come to Old Trafford.
(Full story: The Sun)

Manchester City and Tottenham are battling it out for Aston Villa midfielder Gareth Barry.
(Full story: Daily Star)

West Brom defender Paul Robinson says he will leave the relegated club as he wants to play in the Premier League. (Various)
(Full story)

Arsenal have made an £8m bid for Fulham centre-back Brede Hangeland.
(Full story: Daily Mirror)

Tottenham are ready to make another bid for Bulgarian winger Martin Petrov, who is currently playing for Manchester City.
(Full story: The Sun)

Chelsea are confident they have beaten Inter Milan in the race to sign FC Twente striker Marko Arnautovic.
(Full story: Daily Mail)

Defender Michael Turner has disappointed Liverpool by pledging his future to Hull. (Various)


Wolves have abandoned plans to sign Spurs midfielder Tom Huddlestone after being quoted £8m for the 22-year-old.
(Full story: Daily Mail)

Rangers manager Walter Smith is set to offload midfielder Barry Ferguson this summer rather than risk him going on a free next year.
(Full story: Daily Record)

Tottenham are ready to listen to offers for Darren Bent and Roman Pavlyuchenko and are set to step up their chase for Djibril Cisse.
(Full story: The Guardian)


OTHER GOSSIP
Newcastle are ready to offer Alan Shearer a four-year contract as they look to bounce back into the Premier League. (Various)
(Full story)

Shearer has been told that £30m must be slashed from Newcastle's wage budget following their relegation to the Championship.
(Full story: Daily Star)

West Brom manager Tony Mowbray is the favourite to succeed Gordon Strachan at Celtic.
(Full story: The Sun)

Wigan boss Steve Bruce has been strongly linked with the vacant manager's position at Sunderland. (Daily Mirror)

However, Strachan is not a target for Sunderland.
(Full story: The Independent)

Strachan told family and friends last week that he would be standing down as Celtic manager.
(Full story: Daily Record)

Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov says following his FA Cup semi-final miss, he will not want to step up should the Champions League final go to a penalty shoot-out.
(Full story: The Sun)

Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate says the club needs to be in the Championship promotion hunt by Christmas if he is to remain in his job.
(Full story: The Sun)

Former Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd is hoping to beat Jim Magilton to the QPR manager's job. (Daily Star)
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Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov says following his FA Cup semi-final miss, he will not want to step up should the Champions League final go to a penalty shoot-out.
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Well thats a positive 'strikers' attitude :p

I just get the feeling this guy needs to go on a course of anti-depressants.
 
Leeds have made striker Jermaine Beckford available for transfer after he rejected the club's offer of a new three-year contract.

The 25-year-old, who has just 12 months left on his existing deal, plundered 27 League One goals this term, most coming alongside Luciano Becchio.

Disappointingly, Beckford failed to score in Leeds' two play-off semi-finals against Millwall and it now seems his future may lie away from Elland Road.

Rather than risk losing Beckford for free at the end of next season, the club are inviting offers in a bid to strike a deal suitable for both parties, otherwise he will remain part of Simon Grayson's team.
Very good offer

"As a policy, we will always look to retain our most effective players," chief executive Shaun Harvey told the club's official website.

"However we will only do so within the financial parameters that we believe are appropriate. The offer we have made to Jermaine is what we believe to be a very good offer but he has exercised the right to turn it down.

"On the basis that he has 12 months remaining on his current contract and could leave on a free transfer next summer, we feel we must consider any offers that are forthcoming for him.

"In the event that no offers are forthcoming or the offers received are unacceptable to us then he will remain part of Simon Grayson's squad next season."
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Not exactly surprised, you could see he couldn't really give a **** most of the time even so he did score a shed load of goals.
 
I hope he is not thinking of Premier league football because he will get laughed out of it.

If Bruce goes to Sunderland I will give up. Get a decent manger builds the team he wants and then he might be leaving ffs.
 
andybtsn said:
Not exactly surprised, you could see he couldn't really give a **** most of the time even so he did score a shed load of goals.
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I think we need someone with more enthusiasm next season, at the end of the day he didn't really work that hard, just waited for the ball to come to him and finished it off - you could argue that's what forwards do, but the best ones work for it as well.

His only major asset was his positional ability, so long as we get a half decent forward that can pick up the positions we'll be ok as we have the players like snodgrass who are so good at getting the ball to the forwards.
 
mrbios said:
I think we need someone with more enthusiasm next season, at the end of the day he didn't really work that hard, just waited for the ball to come to him and finished it off - you could argue that's what forwards do, but the best ones work for it as well.

His only major asset was his positional ability, so long as we get a half decent forward that can pick up the positions we'll be ok as we have the players like snodgrass who are so good at getting the ball to the forwards.
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Bring in Cox or Lambert to replace him, Beckford was a special player but I don't think it's that hard to find a 25+ goal striker in league 1.
 
Last I heard Cox was linked with Celtic and a few big Championship clubs, not sure if Leeds could get him.

How much do you reckon Beckford is worth? £2M?

In other news, Bayern have bought Gomez for £26M!
 
BFCTom said:
Last I heard Cox was linked with Celtic and a few big Championship clubs, not sure if Leeds could get him.

How much do you reckon Beckford is worth? £2M?

In other news, Bayern have bought Gomez for £26M!
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To be fair, Leeds have beaten off Championship clubs for a lot of signings, Snodgrass, Bradley Johnson, even Beckford when he first came!

He's worth near 4m I reckon. 34 goals in 37 starts, still pretty young.
 
Yeah I appreciate you're still a big club (;)) but potentially winning the SPL and playing in the CL would surely tempt him if the Celtic rumours are to be believed.

£4M? I'd be surprised if someone pays that much for someone who's still got to make the step up to the Championship, you can't argue with his League One record though.
 
Leeds don't need cash so we're hold out for a big transfer, we've always said that, That's why players such as Delph are getting linked for 10m odd.
 
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