CSKA doubled the salary of its best sniper Jo, claims "Your DAY". According to the newspaper, now the annual salary of the 19-year-old goalscorer who has accumulated 14 goals in the last championship will amount to 1 million euros. “Last season, the striker received 40 thousand euros per month, and under the terms of the new contract he will earn twice as much,” the source said, “Nevertheless, the young striker is still the lowest paid Brazilian in CSKA. Jo’s new annual salary 200 thousand euros less than Dudu, and 500 than Daniel Carvalho and Wagner Love. Jo had offers from a number of European clubs, which, however, are not among the strongest in their countries, but the Brazilian did not even consider them "The striker does not want to leave Russia yet."
CLEMENT OF RODRIGUEZ , the Moscow defense player of Spartak, can be exchanged for the 29-year-old left-back of Schalke 04 and the Georgian national team Levan Kobiashvili, reports Your Day. “Throughout the season, the head coach of the red-white Vladimir Fedotov was dissatisfied with the game of Rodriguez. Due to the fact that the Argentinean often flew to his home for family reasons - his father died in June, he never got the best shape,” said source of TD. “In addition, the family of a 25-year-old football player got used to Russia. At the beginning of September, the father-in-law of the Athens Olympic champion died in a Moscow hospital. After that, Clemente firmly decided to leave Russia, and Fedotov asked the selection service to find an Argentine worthy Spartak bosses are ready to offer Schalke two options for compensation for Kobiashvili. According to the first, the red and white ones offer the German club for Georgian Rodriguez plus $ 2 million. In case the Germans refuse, Spartak is ready to pay for the transfer of Levan, the contract which with the club from Gelsenkirchen ends in the summer of 2010, $ 10 million. "
Kobiashvili already played in the Russian championship in 1997 for the Vladikavkaz “Alania”, then spent six seasons in “Freiburg”. In 117 matches played for Schalke, he scored 7 goals. As for Rodriguez, there is a demand for him from Espanyol, Marseille, Betis and his former club Boca Juniors.
ROMAN WEIDENFELLER , the 26-year-old goalkeeper of Dortmund's Borussia, will become Arsenal’s new goalkeeper in summer if Jens Lehmann leaves the London club, it is very likely that the Ruthenians will miss the Champions League and pay them three million pounds, Sportal reports. As previously reported, the contract of the 37-year-old guard of the gates of the German national team with the “gunners” expires at the end of the season. But with those over 30, in England, as a rule, they conclude only one-year labor agreements. This does not suit the German. At the same time, Sevilla is ready to offer Lehmann a two-year engagement. It is curious that Weidenfeller, who is close to debuting in the German national team in a February friendly match with the Swiss, four years ago already acted as Lehmann's successor in the Dortmund club. According to The Sunday Express, Bayern also claims to be a bronze medalist at the 2006 World Cup.
SVEN-ERAN ERICKSON will head Marseilles next summer if a Canadian tycoon becomes the new owner of the French club, The Times reports. Rejecting the less financially attractive proposals of the teams of South Africa and Qatar (the latter offered Scandinavian 3.6 million pounds a year), the Swede wanted to return to his club career. It is assumed that on the Cote d'Azur he will receive as much as he earned in the England team: about 4.5 million pounds a year. By the way, the "English" money (13 thousand pounds per week) continues to drip into his pocket, because the contract with the Football Association, calculated until the summer of 2007, after the 2006 World Cup was unilaterally broken. Since January, however, payments will fall to "only" 5 thousand pounds a week. It remains to add that the alternate French airfield Ericsson - PSG.
NWANQWO KANU, one of the best snipers in the English Premier League, intends to leave Portsmouth if the club does not offer the 30-year-old Nigerian a long-term contract, The Sun.
“ARSENAL” during the next re-application may replenish the captain of “West Ham” Nigel Reo-Cocker, who is also interested in “Everton”, believes the Sunday Times.
SEAN WRIGHT-PHILLIPS , who does not always have a place in the starting lineup of Chelsea, according to News of the World, will move to Portsmouth next month. Another contender for England's right-wing winger is the former Wright-Phillips club Manchester City, Sunday Express believes.
“Liverpool”, according to News of the World, expects to acquire a tall playmaker “Lille” Mathieu Bodmer in January, however, the French club, which reached the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, one of the key players needed.
XABI ALONSO , Liverpool's midfielder, according to Gazzetta dello Sport, is one of Juventus' three priority summer acquisitions.
RANGERS has laid eyes on the 31-year-old striker of Bordeaux, Jean-Claude Darshville, according to the Daily Record. In January, Wigan defender Andy Webster (ex-Hearts), who is also invited by another club from Glasgow, Celtic, may move to Ibrox on loan, the Daily Mirror reports.
GRIME SUNES , former coach of Newcastle, Blackburn, Southampton, Liverpool and Glasgow Rangers, may re-head Galatasaray, writes The People. The current coach of the Istanbul club Eric Gerets is about to be shown the door, because the leadership in the Turkish championship belongs to the fierce enemy of “chim-bom-bom” - “Fenerbahce”, and he took the last place at all in the champions group “Galatasaray”. Under Suness, Galatasaray won the Super Bowl and the Cup of the country in the mid-90s.
Juventus is ready to part with 12 million pounds for the sake of the West Haw midfielder and Argentina's national team Javier Mascherano, reports The Times.
ANTONIO CASSANO, with the arrival of Argentine striker Gonzalo Higuain in Real Madrid, has moved even further away from the cream base and is ready to return to Italy in January. The Royal Club is not going to repair the Italians. He is not averse to see in his team coach “Milan” Carlo Ancelotti, reports Tribalfooball.
MILAN is interested in left-back Manchester United and Argentina Gabriele Heinz. It could be a replacement for Paolo Maldini, completing a gaming career at the end of the season, according to Gazzetta dello Sport. And the former Heinze club - PSG - is ready to rent a defender now.
CHRISTOPH METZELDER , the defender of Dortmund Borussia and the German national team, fell into the sphere of interest of the Leverkusen Bayer, which hopes to get only the 26-year-old defender recently recovered from his injury at the end of the season, writes Kölner Express.
HUB STEVENS, Rody coach, another candidate for the Dortmund Borussia steering post who will be vacant at the end of the season, Bild reports. From 1996 to 2002, Stevens headed another Ruhr club - Schalke 04, the eternal rival of Borussia. But the 53-year-old Dutchman does not bother at all. And everyone has long been accustomed to the migration of footballers between Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund. In addition, “Roda” and “Borussia”, ironically, have identical club colors - black and yellow.
“Bohum” is interested in the attacking midfielder of “Iraklis” and the national team of Cameroon Joel Epalle, reports Sky Sports. Marcel Koller, coach of a German club located dangerously close to the relegation zone in the Bundesliga, intends to intensify the attack during the winter break. The contract of Epalle with Iraklis is designed until 2008, but the Greeks are ready to part with the Cameroonian, who spent 29 matches for the national team, for 500 thousand euros.
Bonaventure CALO, striker PSG and the national team of Côte d'Ivoire, became the object of lust for Bordeaux, which in the summer may lose its main forwards - Chamakh and Darshville, But reports.
December 15 rumor review