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Hot Football Transfer Gossip: Suarez, Camacho, Icardi, Kouyate, Terry

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The people that make up transfer rumours appear to have taken a well-earned break today, and we don’t begrudge them that because they work really hard, but it does leave us with a less exciting edition of Hot Football Transfer Gossip than usual.

Unless you’re a Liverpool fan! Because Luis Suarez says in the Daily Mail that he wants to return to Anfield - boom.

There are a few caveats though. Firstly, he doesn’t actually want to return to Anfield… yet. Or maybe even ever. He just said that if he did ever come back to the Premier League (which he doesn’t want to do), then Liverpool are the only club he would play for. Another caveat is that he was speaking to the Mail’s top journalist Jamie Carragher, a Liverpool legend, so he was unlikely to profess a desire to sign for Manchester United. And another caveat is that he also said he would sign for Liverpool when Carragher becomes manager “in three years”, which is clearly just two old team-mates getting paid to talk rubbish to each other.

But don’t be too disheartened Liverpool fans, because Malaga midfielder Ignacio Camacho was driven to the Reds’ Melwood training ground with his agent this week, according to a website we’ve never heard of called Read Liverpool. It adds that “we can’t confirm why Camacho was at Melwood”, so he may have just been there on a tourist tour or to have a look at Ian Ayre’s fish tank. But maybe, just maybe, Camacho was there to sign for Liverpool as part of the same deal that will bring Suarez back to Anfield.

All today’s other transfer gossip is about players not being transferred. Inter Milan’s Japanese full-back Yuto Nagatomo has claimed that he turned down a move to Manchester United in January because he “loves Italy” and has “an excellent rapport with Roberto Mancini”, reports FourFourTwo.

Meanwhile his more glamorous Inter team-mate, Mauro Icardi, says exactly the same thing, almost to the word, in the Metro. And he adds that, “If Manchester try again, I will not leave.” So leave him alone, Ed Woodward.

Another player that is not going anywhere is Cheikou Kouyate, who the Mirror says is set to sign a new four-year deal at West Ham.

And even Chelsea’s own manager, Guus Hiddink, believes it will be a struggle for the Blues to lure players in the summer because he has no chance of propelling them into the Champions League (Guardian). The Dutchman also admits in the Standard that recent signings Alexandre Pato and Matt Miazga are not ready to play in the first team because they are rubbish not fit.

Finally, former Blue Frank Lampard believes the club should save themselves a signing and instead offer John Terry a new deal (Shortlist). And he says that view has nothing to do with him being “friends with John”. Unfortunately, we don’t believe him.

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