MOSCOW LOCOMOTIVE , having failed to negotiate with Cruzeiro on the purchase of Carlon, turned its attention to another Brazilian child prodigy - 19-year-old lateral Santos Carlinhos, claims “Your DAY”. Both players, as you know, are in the sphere of interests of CSKA, which is ready to pay $ 7 million for Karlinios. “The negotiations between Lokomotiv and Cruzeiro on Carlon took place according to the same scenario as the army did,” a TD source said. - The Brazilian club requested $ 15 million for an 18-year-old playmaker. The railroad workers were not satisfied with such a price, and they tried to bring it down to 11 million. But Cruzeiro refused to bargain, saying that Manchester United was ready to pay the required amount for Carlon in the summer. " In addition, as already reported, the red-greens took on the sight of the 20-year-old base midfielder Gremio and the Brazil national team Lucas. According to the newspaper, Lokomotiv is ready to spend more than $ 5 million on the purchase of Karlinios, and a million more on Lucas.
MANCHESTER UNITED increased the offer for Bayern midfielder Owen Hargreaves to 23 million pounds, reports the Daily Mail. While the German club intends to delay the sale of the universal footballer of the England national team until the summer, the Red Devils really need it right now to claim the main trophies of the season. According to Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson, the acquisition of Hargreaves, the “new Roy Keane,” would be the final touch to form a portrait of the 2006/07 winning team.
WAYNE RUNEY , Manchester United's 21-year-old striker, will earn £ 103 million over the next ten years and become the richest player in the English Premier League, the Daily Mirror believes. According to the newspaper, during the same period, the fortune of Newcastle striker Michael Owen will increase by 96.1 million pounds, and Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand will pocket 74.5 and 71.5 million, respectively. It is estimated that by the end of his career Rooney’s revenues directly on the football field will amount to £ 70 million; in November, England striker signed a new six-year contract with a salary of 5.9 million pounds per year. In addition, Rooney has six advertising agreements with Nike, Coke Zero, Asda, Ford Sports, EA Sports and Harper Collins, thanks to which he has already earned 10 million pounds and at least 17 will work in the future.
ROBERTO MANCHINI , Inter's coach, according to The Sun, is the main contender for Chelsea's mentor, who, apparently, will become vacant in the summer. According to the newspaper, the bosses of the "aristocrats" are fed up not so much with the local failures of the team in the Premier League, but with the incessant riots of the impudent Jose Mourinho. Compared to him, 42-year-old Mancini seems to be a more predictable and comfortable coach, whose contract with Nerazzurri expires in the summer, and the Italian is not in a hurry to renew his dream of working in England. It is curious that, ironically, Mourinho, who enjoys the support of the sports director of black and blue Marco Branca, may become Inter's new mentor.
Meanwhile, the epic continues with the transfer to Chelsea of the central defender of Bolton Tal Ben-Haim. According to The Sun, in compensation for the Israeli, the “wanderers” were offered to rent the midfielders Sean Wright-Phillips and Lassana Diarr, but Bolton could not afford to pay them in the amount of 70 thousand pounds a week and came up with an alternative: one million for Ben Haim and Diarra to boot. Now a word for Chelsea.
ARSENAL has entered into a dispute over striker Danubio and the junior national team of Uruguay, Edison Cavani, reports Tribalfootball. At the 20-year-old football championship of South America held in Paraguay, scouts of the “Gunners” watch the forward play with no less interest than a number of other English clubs, as well as Milan and Juventus.
Juventus , while continuing to develop the German market, has begun negotiations with Werder Bremen regarding midfielder Torsten Frings, Tribalfootball says. In the 30-year-old midfielder of the German national team, the Bianconeri see a potential replacement for Pavel Nedved, who is likely to leave Turin in the summer. Earlier, “Old Signora” showed interest in the defender of the Dortmund “Borussia” Christoph Metzelder and Frings teammate striker Miroslav Klose.
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