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Hot Football Transfer Gossip: Rooney 'could leave Man United this month', Chelsea 'set to beat Liverpool to German ace', Milan 'want Sissoko'
We know everyone’s really bored with that story that appears in the Sun every week about Wayne Rooney going to China at the end of the season and earning, like, a billion pounds a year, because a) no one needs to read the same story over and over again (well maybe Sun readers do) and b) who really cares anyway? You can stick a fork in Rooney, he’s done.
But today’s Telegraph has lured us back into this tale by adding a new and exciting twist. The broadsheet reports that yes, Rooney could go to China and yes, he would earn a lot of money there but, also, the Manchester United captain could do it all THIS MONTH. See, you weren’t expecting that were you eh?
Rooney reportedly has offers to move to the Far East before the end of the Chinese transfer window on 28 February (same day as Pancake Day – surely not a coincidence) and United are pondering whether to get him off the wage bill sooner rather than later.
The paper adds that Rooney is currently having a new home built “on a sprawling site in the North West” but this will have “no bearing” on his move to China. Presumably because he’d be making so much money that he could build 100 new homes, and fill them all with precious owl figurines made of solid gold if he wanted to (unlikely he would want to).
In news of another fading big beast, the Mirror reports that Arsene Wenger’s situation at Arsenal is “not good” – these the damning words of his brother Guy Wenger (which we assume is pronounced ghee, like the clarified butter commonly used in Indian cooking).
We can in fact cut and paste the entirety of the Mirror’s exclusive interview with the elder Wenger here – it won’t take long.
“I feel sympathy for Arsene. The situation is not good for him. But it is his problem, not mine. I was not in Munich for the match, I watched on television. I don’t know if Arsenal can come back now.”
Thanks for that, Ghee.
The Guardian reports that Chelsea have joined the race to sign Borussia Monchegladbach starlet Mahmoud Dahoud, news which will really annoy Jurgen Klopp because the Liverpool boss has been tracking the 21-year-old midfielder since before Chelsea had even heard of him. Typical.
Elsewhere, AC Milan are interested in “unhappy” Tottenham midfielder Moussa Sissoko (Calciomercato), Burton Albion’s Jackson Irvine rejected a £100,000-a-week pay rise in the Chinese Super League because he feared it could interfere with his “dream” of playing in the Premier League (Sun) and West Ham are interested in 20-year-old Paris Saint-Germain defender Fode Ballo-Toure (MadeinFoot), who sounds a bit like a mutant Championship Manager regen created by an illicit affair between Mario Balotelli, Kolo Toure and a hobbit. Sign him up, Bilic!
