DANIEL CARVALLO , whose contract with CSKA expires in December 2007, is seeking a 2.5-fold increase in salary, according to Your Day. Otherwise, after a year, the Brazilian playmaker will move to another club for free, warned the president of the red-blue father and agent Carvalho. “Don Albio told Giner that if CSKA wants to keep Carvalho, the club will have to pay him $ 3.5 million a year,” the source said. “Eugene Lennorovich agrees on $ 2.5 million, but Daniel and his father believe that they deserve more.” According to the newspaper, a month ago the parties reached an oral agreement, according to which Carvalho was supposed to remain in CSKA for another four years, but the 23-year-old Brazilian, currently receiving $ 120 thousand a month, has not yet put his signature on the contract. The highest paid Premier League footballer is Zenit striker Andrei Arshavin, who recently achieved an increase in his salary to $ 3 million a year, reminds TD.
ALEXANDER KERZHAKOV has already signed a personal contract with Sevilnee, reports AS. As one of the clauses of this contract, according to the Spanish newspaper, there is an 18-million penalty if Kerzhakov moves to another club. Because Kerzhakov is so keen to go exactly to Sevilla, and therefore the Spaniards offer only one and a half million for the striker.
GOGITA GOGUA , a midfielder of the Georgian national team, left the Spartak Nalchik with a scandal. According to “YOUR DAY”, the 23-year-old footballer who scored two goals in the last Russian championship and earned the same number of red cards (the most in the team), after a duel of the final round with Luch-Energia, sent a scandal in the locker room, having learned that a number of his teammates receive a salary much greater than he. Gogua demanded that the club management urgently raise his salary. The cartridges were outraged by the behavior of the "starry" player and hinted that in the last few rounds he did little good. Without waiting for the money, Gogita left Kabardino-Balkaria the same day and left for his homeland. Now it holds in mind the Turkish "Galatasaray."
"SHAHTER" AND KYIV "DYNAMO" outline the circle of the main candidates for sale, reports the Kiev newspaper Today. In winter, blue and white, apparently, will part with Maris Verpakovsky, Yuri Dmitrulin, a pupil of Khabarovsk football Alexander Aliyev, George Peev, Christian Irimia and Igor Petkovich. The Pitmen are not satisfied with the game of goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa, to which Herth claims. Most likely, he will be replaced by Jan Lashtuvka returned from Fulham. In addition, the Donetsk club may leave the understudy Matuzalema Zvonimir Vukich.
EGGERT MAGNUSSON , the new owner of West Ham, has shown an amazing speed of integration into local culture and has already vowed to continue the traditions of East London management, assuring the trainer of the hammers Alan Pardew that his throat will be cut if the intended results are not achieved achieved. The inflow of foreign capital into the Premier League is not so dangerous for maintaining the traditions and values of English football, the Guardian optimistically assures.
WEST HAM, BOLTON AND WIGAN are showing interest in Alex, the left- side midfielder of the Japanese national team, who helped his club Urava Red Diamonds first become J-League champion last week, Tribalfooball reports . The agent of the 29-year-old Brazilian expects to organize a transfer to one of the three clubs of the English Premier League on loan for a period of 6 months with a possible buyback of the transfer in the summer.
GUIDO BUCHWALD , German mentor of Urava Red Diamonds, intends to return to his homeland and accept the offer of one of the Bundesliga clubs, Tribalfooball claims. After three years of work in the Land of the Rising Sun, the World 90 champion decided not to renew the contract with the newly made J-League triumph and took a break to rethink his activities and stay with his family. On the eve of the World Cup, Jürgen Klinsmann invited Buchwald to the coaching staff of the German national team, but he refused.
Everton urgently needs a new right-back, Liverpool believes Echo Last season, this position firmly belonged to Tony Hibbert, but groin problems disabled him indefinitely. The absence of Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta forced the coach of the Merseysiders David Moyes to transfer Phil Neville to midfield, but he was injured on Sunday. Considering that the other extreme defender Alessandro Pistone is also in the infirmary, and the use of central defender Joseph Joobo on the right flank is a necessary, but by no means adequate measure, the first back joker of Everton is likely to be the right back.
"Juventus", forced to swarm among the ants of series B, is experiencing a form of humiliation even in comparison with the "Milan", which has recently begun to shake more and more often. But the "Old Signor" will save a young healthy man who will shoulder the burden of her problems. Forward “Werder Bremen” Miroslav Klose should only say an affectionate word, and she will immediately fall into his arms, believes the connoisseur of the female soul Guardian .
WERDER, meanwhile, was already preoccupied with finding an alternative not only to Klose, but also to his attack partner Ivan Klasnich, who also has a demand, albeit less stable, abroad, Sportal reports. One of the candidates is the 21-year-old Brazilian Carlos Alberto, who, after a fight with the Corinthians coach, was excommunicated and is now seeking a sale to another club. So, the transition to Werder Bremen of the Champions League 2004 as part of Porto during the winter break is quite likely.
LUISH FIGU is about to leave Inter at the end of the season,
Corriere writes
dello Sport . After the Nerazzurri coach replaced the Portuguese during the Champions League match in Munich, a quarrel broke out between Roberto Mancini and Figo, whose high degree leaves no chance that the contract of the 34-year-old veteran with the Italian championship leader will expire in June.