Gossip: Transfer and rumours - 26 January, 2014

Chelsea are on course to complete the £12m signing of 21-year-old Egypt midfielder Mohamed Salah from Basel before their FA Cup tie at home to Stoke on Sunday.
Full story: Daily Star 
 
Chelsea have reached a verbal agreement to sign Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa, 25.

Costa was linked with Liverpool in the summer but could move to Chelsea

Full story: Metro 
 
Manchester United are planning up to five more signings of the same calibre as £37.1m club record capture Juan Mata, 25, as manager David Moyes instigates an overhaul of the current squad.
Full story: Sunday Times (subscription required) 
 
Manchester United have made a big offer for Southampton star Luke Shaw, as they look to pip Premier League rivals Chelsea to the 18-year-old defender's signature.
Full story: Daily Star 
 
Liverpool have targeted Benfica midfielder Andre Gomes and the Portuguese club want £12.4m for the 20-year-old.
Full story: Sunday Times (subscription required) 
 
There is fresh doubt over Tom Ince's Blackpool future after the 21-year-old winger was left out of caretaker manager Barry Ferguson's first squad.
Full story: Daily Mail 
 
Stoke manager Mark Hughes has insisted Peter Crouch is not for sale, amid reports linking the 32-year-old striker with a move back to former club Queens Park Rangers.
Full story: talkSPORT 
 
Alberto Gilardino has disappointed West Ham and Sunderland by pledging his future to Italian side Genoa. The 31-year-old striker has his sights set on scoring 200 Serie A goals.
Full story: Daily Express 

OTHER GOSSIP

Chelsea had said they would not sell Juan Mata to Manchester United but had to do so after no other club met their £37m valuation of the Spanish international playmaker.
Full story: Daily Mirror 
 

Di Canio (left) has criticised his former player O'Shea among others from his spell at Sunderland 

Former Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio has launched a verbal attack on Black Cats players John O'Shea, who he says criticised team-mates to him in private, as well as the "rotten" duo of Phil Bardsley and Lee Cattermole.
Full story: Sun on Sunday (subscription required) 
 
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup is set to leave the club following a falling out with chairman Huw Jenkins.
Full story: Sunday Express 
 
Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis is also at odds with co-chairman Steve Parish over transfer policy and the future of the Eagles boss is now in doubt.
Full story: Sun on Sunday (subscription required) 
 
Manchester United are ready to commit £65m in wages to keep Wayne Rooney, 28, at Old Trafford for the next four years.
Full story: Daily Mirror 
 
Nicolas Anelka will be sacked by West Bromwich Albion if the 34-year-old forward is found guilty by the FA of making an anti-Semitic gesture.
Full story: Daily Mirror 

AND FINALLY

Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel, 29, played through the pain against Bournemouth after having staples to close a head wound that he picked up during Saturday's 2-0 FA Cup fourth-round win.
Full story: Metro