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Hot football transfer gossip rumours - Stones, Pedro, De Bruyne, Hernandez

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Wednesday 5 August, 2015

Roberto Martinez likes to take the positives from every situation, whether it’s a 3-0 home defeat or a Scouse barber botching his short back and sides, but even the chirpy Spaniard’s mood may darken when he sees today’s hot football transfer gossip rumours.

The ominous news emanating from the Telegraph is that Chelsea are “preparing” a bid of £30m for Toffees centre-back John Stones. Not making a bid, “preparing” one.

This intriguing process presumably involves Roman Abramovich meticulously stacking up the required funds in pound coins in his office, only to be repeatedly interrupted by Jose Mourinho venting about Arsene Wenger or Juan Cuadrado asking for a Ferrari. At which point the oligarch has to start counting again, until the £30m are suitably “prepared” and a Slavic hard nut in sunglasses drives them up to Goodison Park in a skip.

In any case, Martinez insists that Stones is not for sale, so Abramovich will probably have to load a few million more shiny ones onto the pile next week.

Manchester United’s pursuit of Pedro is a story that seems to be sticking, with the Sun declaring that the Barcelona forward is “on the verge” of making a £20m switch to Old Trafford, where he will form a new-look front three with Wayne Rooney and Memphis Depay.

United will apparently have some extra cash to play with after a peeved Louis Van Gaal made Paris Saint-Germain pay an extra £3m for Angel Di Maria just because he posed for a photo with the club’s Qatari owner: a man with so much money he just said, “£3m? Yeah, fine, whatever.”

It’s now the time of day when we tell you whether Kevin de Bruyne is or isn’t going to Manchester City. And he… wait for it… IS! But not for less than £50m, say his club Wolfsburg. Don’t be surprised if those canny operators at the Etihad haggle them down to £49m though.

As is traditional, our Kevin de Bruyne news is followed by a hot rumour about Liverpool buying an exciting young attacking talent for a large amount of cash. Today that man is 24-year-old Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette, and the story is in FRENCH so you can feel sophisticated looking at it.

Elsewhere, West Ham seem to really really want Javier Hernandez, Sunderland are eyeing a loan deal for Man Utd’s Adnan Januzaj and Aston Villa are the latest club being linked with Barcelona winger Adama Traore.

We know you’re not really bothered about West Brom, but we’re just letting you know that Talksport reckon they are going to beat Arsenal to the signature of highly rated Belgian starlet Dennis Praet. See, that was worth knowing wasn’t it.

Finally, Chelsea are today being strongly linked with two players, one called Godfred and the other named Baba, with Christian names that have never featured in the Premier League before. Tremendously exciting.

@darlingkevin