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Transfer Rumours – Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd

It’s getting to be a busy pre-season now – with teams away on tours of Asia, Europe and America and three of the big English Premier League sides are being embroiled in transfer news.

Firstly, Arsenal are having to put up with the daily tantrums of want-away defender Ashley Cole, who has decided that he desperately wants to go and play with his Russian paymaster as Chelsea despite signing an extension to his Arsenal contract just 4 months ago.

Arsenal are understandably not keen to sell him to their cross city rivals, and are trying to tout him off to Real Madrid in order to raise the price – and perhaps string the player along a bit. I expect Cole to move for Chelsea for around GBP 20m.

Then we hear news that Chelsea defender William Gallas has had enough of life at Stamford Bridge and is staying away from the club to force a move.

At 29, he has decided that he wants another challenge, and some journos have speculated that the Frenchman could move to Arsenal in a part-exchange for Cole. But that’s probably just a wild story to tie up lose ends.

Finally, the newpapaers were reporting late last night that Juventus midfielder (and ex-Gooner) Patrick Vieira was going to join Manchester United for just GBP 6m. However, today it looks as if Vieira will be joining Inter Milan after all – and not coming back to England to haunt his old Arsenal team.

Tell you what though – just 6m for Vieira? That makes the GBP 18.3m paid for Carrick look a very steep price now – doesn’t it?  🙂

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