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Hot football transfer gossip: Gerrard, Adebayor, Austin
For most of his career, Steven Gerrard seemed immune from hot football transfer gossip. He was relentlessly linked with Chelsea 10 years ago, but that didn’t happen. And after that, nothing: nobody even bothered trying to make up stories about him signing for Man Utd or Real Madrid. Then a decade later, he signed for LA Galaxy and he was gone forever. Boring.
It means that Stevie G has been forced to create his own transfer gossip in the Mail, who are serialising the former Liverpool captain’s new book, which is imaginatively named ‘Steven Gerrard: My Story’. We’d be interested to know how many meetings and brainstorms took place before the publishers decided on that title. Probably loads. But it was all worth it, because that’s actually a cracking title for a book about Steven Gerrard’s personal story. It’s perfect.
So according to the “explosive” book, the Mail can reveal that Gerrard’s final year at Liverpool was an orgy of hot football transfer gossip. The clubs who wanted to sign him included Tottenham, Paris Saint-German, Monaco, Real Sociedad, Besiktas and “a Qatari side”, who presumably haven’t been named because Gerrard can’t remember what they were called.
Gerrard says he knocked back Spurs because “there would not have been much of a buzz” about playing for them, while he didn’t want to move to PSG and Monaco in case they got drawn against Liverpool in the cup. He seemingly forgot that Tottenham would also have to play the Reds a couple of times too. But anyway, he chose to move to LA Galaxy instead, and that’s all your Steven Gerrard transfer gossip done and dusted for ever.
Until the rumours start about Liverpool bringing him back on loan in January.
Sticking with Spurs for a moment, it seems as if Emmanuel Adebayor will be, well, sticking with Spurs. The West Ham and Aston Villa target has chosen to train with the club’s Under-21s while happily picking up his £100,000-a-week salary and has no intention of leaving, claims the Mirror.
The tabloid has also linked Arsenal to a swoop for Inter Milan’s Mauro Icardi, presumably because he was the first striker that came into their head.
Jose Mourinho has revealed that it wasn’t his choice to sign Papy Djilobodji from Nantes on deadline day, reports the Standard. The Chelsea boss says the defender was chosen by someone he “trusts completely”. In other words, Mourinho has had a look at Djilobodji in training and decided he wants to distance himself from this one.
QPR boss Chris Ramsey has said the club would consider selling Charlie Austin in January if someone meets their £15m valuation, while Gaston Ramirez is set to have his £65,000 Southampton contract ripped up, which is a surprise because most people didn’t realise he still played for them.
