Gossip: Transfer and rumour - 9 November, 2013

Football Gossip: Transfer and rumour - 9 November, 2013

TRANSFER GOSSIP

Brendan Rodgers will ask Liverpool's owners for two big January signings to deliver Champions League football with Greek forward Konstantinos Mitroglou, 25, high on the list of targets.
Full story: Daily Mirror 
Manchester United boss David Moyes has claimed that he was close to signing Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey, 22, during his time as manager Everton.

Zaha has been tipped for a loan move away from Old Trafford

Full story: Manchester Evening News 
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew wants to take Manchester United winger Wilfried Zaha on loan and has asked David Moyes to let him have the 20-year-old prospect.
Full story: Daily Mirror 
Fiorentina and Inter Milan are both plotting January moves for unsettled Southampton midfielder Gaston Ramirez.
Full story: talkSport 
Arsenal and Manchester United have been handed a boost in the race to sign German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, 23, after the player's father revealed there is no agreement in place between his current club Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid.
Full story: Daily Star 

OTHER GOSSIP

Sepp Blatter has admitted he is open to the possibility of staging the 2022 World Cup in more than one Gulf nation after revealing several countries had offered to co-host the tournament with Qatar.
Full story: Independent 
Former Real Madrid defender Aitor Karanka is in pole position to succeed Ian Holloway as manager of Crystal Palace with the Premier League's basement club hoping to make the appointment next week.
Full story: The Guardian 

AND FINALLY

Wayne Rooney has been preparing for Manchester United's clash against Arsenal on Sunday with a trip to see teenager singer-songwriter Jake Bugg in concert in Manchester.
Full story: Daily Mail 

source: bbcsport