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Hot Transfer Window Gossip: Real Madrid 'make Alli top target', Chelsea 'want £130m for Costa', PSG 'enter Payet race'
Does anyone remember about a month ago when Dele Alli couldn’t trap a bag of cement? No, no one does – because memories in the amnesiac world of football rarely stretch back longer than a couple of weeks.
If you have one good match, you’re “in form” (Leroy Sane), score twice in a row, and you’re “back to your best” (Andy Carroll). So if you smash home a genuinely sensational eight goals in five league matches from midfield, like Alli has just done, then it stands to reason you will become “the most sought-after youngster in world football”.
This is how the Sunday Express describes the very much in form and back to his best Tottenham man today, as it reveals that Real Madrid will go “all out” to sign Alli in the summer.
“All out” in this context means that Zinedine Zidane will “trump any offers” made by any other clubs for the 20-year-old (even used as a verb the word “trump” sends a chill down the spine these days doesn’t it?), with Paris Saint-Germain also said to be interested.
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Although Spurs do not want to sell Alli, they reportedly “fear his head could be turned like Gareth Bale”. Whatever happens, “the £50m barrier will be broken”.
Is that even a lot of money these days? Not for Chelsea, who the Sunday Times says have put a £130m price tag on Diego Costa – and they think they might actually get it.
Contrary to reports that the Blues have been trying to persuade the unsettled striker to stay at Stamford Bridge, the broadsheet suggests that Roman Abramovich – lured by the prospect of a frankly ridiculous world record transfer fee – has been openly touting the Spanish Brazilian to Chinese clubs.
So far, Tianjin Quanjian have only offered a measly £95m for Costa, plus a piddly annual salary of £30.2m net for the player.
And while that might have sounded like a sarcastic sentence, those sums are actually peanuts compared to what the Chinese are allegedly willing to pay Wayne Rooney.
The Sun on Sunday says unnamed “super-rich Chinese soccer bosses” want to make the record-goalscoring striker a record-earning striker too by paying him a literally stupid £1m per week.
According the Sun’s “source in China”, Rooney would “probably sign a two-year deal this summer”. The source adds that, “It will be a big wrench for him and Coleen and their boys because they are very settled in Cheshire and Coleen in particular is very close to her family.” This “Chinese source” is surprisingly well-versed in the Rooneys’ private life, eh?
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Meanwhile, there have been couple of “twists” in the Dimitri Payet saga. Twist one is that West Ham are considering loaning the playmaker to Nice to annoy Marseille (Sunday Mirror) and twist two is that PSG have entered the race to buy him, which would annoy Marseille even more (Sunday Express). There is, however, a good chance that both these twists were fabricated in the Hammers boardroom as a means of squeezing some more money out of the deal.
Elsewhere, Chelsea and Man Utd are pursuing Benfica’s £34m-rated Portugal international right-back Nelson Semedo (Star), Tottenham have rejected Crystal Palace’s £8m bid for Ben Davies (Mirror) and Sunderland are planning a double swoop for free agents Robbie Keane and Joleon Lescott (Express) – presumably after David Moyes awoke from a night of heavy drinking and momentarily thought he was living in the year 2009.
