Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal forced Paris St-Germain to pay an extra £3m for forward Angel Di Maria after the 27-year-old posted a picture of himself with the French club's owner in Qatar.
( Daily Mirror )
United are on the verge of completing a £20m deal for Barcelona forward Pedro, 28.
( Sun )
Van Gaal offered Pedro a role alongside Wayne Rooney and Memphis Depay in a new-look front three in order to convince him to move to Old Trafford.
( Daily Telegraph )
Sunderland are in talks to sign Manchester United's 20-year-old wingerAdnan Januzaj on a season-long loan deal.
( Sunderland Echo )
Wolfsburg are ready to sell 24-year-old midfielder Kevin De Bruyne - a City target - but only for £50m.
( Daily Mirror )
The agent of Augsburg defender Baba Rahman, 21, says the left-back is close to signing for Chelsea after agreeing personal terms with the Premier League champions.
( Daily Star )
Chelsea, along with Serie A champions Juventus, have held talks with Cagliari over the signing of 19-year-old Ghanaian midfielder Godfred Donsah.
( Daily Express
West Brom have made an approach to sign Arsenal target and Anderlecht midfielder Dennis Praet, 21.
( talkSPORT )
The Baggies have been told they must pay £10m for QPR's 23-year-old winger Matt Phillips.
( Sun )
West Ham are ready to return to Manchester United with an improved offer for Mexico forward Javier Hernandez of about £12m.
( London Evening Standard )
Hernandez will ask United to lower their £12m asking price for him, with Tottenham also interested.( Daily Star )
Liverpool are considering a number of loan offers from Championship clubs for highly rated 18-year-old attacking midfielder Ryan Kent.
( Liverpool Echo )
The Reds have been cleared to complete the signing of Alexandre Lacazette, 24, after Lyon reportedly told the striker he can leave.
( L'Equipe )
Everton fear losing defender John Stones, 21, as Chelsea prepare a third bid approaching £30m.
( Daily Telegraph )
Rangers have made a third bid forHibernian midfielder Scott Allan, 23.
( Glasgow Evening Times )
Aston Villa left-back Aly Cissokho, 27, is set to join Porto on a season-long loan deal.
( Birmingham Mail )
Villa are looking to beat Liverpool and Stoke to the signing of Barcelona's 19-year-old winger Adama Traore who is valued at £7m.
( Sun )
Wales forward Bale is confident he will win trophies with Real this season if Benitez continues to play him in a central attacking role.
( Guardian )
Crystal Palace are adamant that winger Yannick Bolasie, a Tottenham target, will not be sold this summer.
( London Evening Standard )
Southampton are set to open contract talks to keep midfielder Victor Wanyama, 24, despite him having two years left on his current deal.
( Daily Mail )
Other Gossip
The Football Association is set to make up to 300 staff redundant as part of major revamp that will save £30m per year.
( Daily Mail )
The Red Devils have found out the fullcost of a season without Champions League football by falling to 20th place in the Uefa coefficient, four places behind rivals Manchester City.
( London Evening Standard )
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal is ready to hand a surprise debut to goalkeeper Sergio Romero this weekend and leave out David de Gea.
( Daily Star )
Despite spending around £71m on new players, former England goalkeeper David James thinks Manchester City won't finish in the top four at the end of the season.
( Daily Express )
West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster, 32, is targeting a return to action in October after suffering a knee injury in March.
( Birmingham Mail )
Premier League managers have been told to behave themselves ahead of the new season with heavy fines and stadium bans being handed out for breaking the new code of conduct.
( Daily Mirror )
New Brighton signing Bobby Zamora, 34, says he turned down the chance of playing Champions League football to return to the south coast club.
( Daily Express )
AND FINALLY
Ten-year-old Bobby Gill says catching the medal thrown into the crowd bylosing Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho after the Community Shield is his "bestest memory ever".
( Coventry Telegraph )
Goalkeeper Adam Bogdan's Liverpool career did not get off to a particularly bright start when the club spelled his name wrong on their website.
( Metro )
A televised coin flip will decide which team hosts the 2015 US Open Cup final.
( NBC Sports )
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Woman claims she is the real cookie sues empire
A woman is suing the creator of "Empire," for hundreds of millions of dollars, claiming Lee Daniels stole her life story, right down to a gay family member.
Sophia Eggleston claims, she embodies the "Cookie" character in almost every important respect, including a penchant for wearing mink. She also says she did time for putting a hit on someone, and Cookie's character did the same thing.
Eggleston says she gave a copy of an autobiography to a screenwriter back in 2011, and she says months later the screenwriter called her to say she was pitching the book to Lee Daniels.
She is suing for $300 million, she is also representing herself
G-unit sucking 50cent dry
50 Cent's financial woes are coming into focus ... because new financial docs show G-Unit Records and G-Unit Brands have cost 50 more than $10 million over the last three years.
According to new documents filed as part of 50's bankruptcy, the two branches of G-Unit have been in the red each of the last three years -- $10.45 million in losses. The silver lining ... they've done better this year ... they're still losing dough, but not as much.
The documents reveal a few other 50 financial tidbits. 50 is currently paying child support to Daphne Joy for their young son, Sire ... and the docs say by the time the kid hits 18 ... he'll have paid out $832,600.
50 says he has more than $15 million in personal property, which does not include houses. And get this ... he has $2.7 millionin his checking account.
50's monthly expenses include $5,000/month for gardening, $1,500 for pool maintenance and $9,000/month for security.
Source: TMZ
Gwen Stefani quits 13year old marriage
Gwen is said to be ready to pull out of a 13 years marriage with husband Gavin Rossdale. She believes Gavin has been cheating on her for a long time now, the two are said to have been having issues for a long time now with Gwen claiming he has been cheating on her and he has been away from home for too long. Gavin was on tour with his band Bush between December 2014 and March 2015. Gavin though thinks Gwen is been hypocritical about his tour because she also has been on tour. They have a kid and probably going to have shared custody has sources claimed he his a great dad
Mayweather fights again
Floyd took to his instagram page to confirm is new Challenger Andre Berto. Mayweather hoping to make it 49 wins with no defeat while Berto's record on the other hand is not bad at all with 33 wins and 3 defeats only. The fight is on September 12,2015.
Kylie Jenner tried to pay victim $20000 to avoid legal suit
Nah! No longer interested in divorce
The duo got married in 2010 only to get divorced two years after before getting married again though the billionaire had already paid close to $20million as settlement not too much for a man said to be worth almost $14 billion
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