Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Daley Sinkgraven?
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Version 0 of 1. According to an exclusive in The Sun, Harry Redknapp is refusing to sign the new contract QPR have offered him and has instead threatened to quit the club and walk out of football altogether at the end of the season. That’s if he’s allowed to wait that long, responds anyone who watched their performance at West Ham at the weekend. “I told Tony four weeks ago that I do not want a contract,” he said. “We’ll see where QPR finish the season and take it from there. If we get relegated I wouldn’t expect to stay and I wouldn’t want to. We’ll see where we are come next May won’t we. I may have had enough by then and so might the people that run the club.” Which is news to the folk at The Mirror, whose own exclusive reveals that QPR have withdrawn their offer of a new contract for Redknapp because the team are bottom of the Premier League and playing like extras from The Walking Dead. Either way, though, everyone can agree that Redknapp is not about to sign a new contract. Neither is Glen Johnson, the Liverpool full-back admitting that talks with the club over an extension have gone “very quiet”, which must be particularly galling given the new deal snapped up by Daniel Sturridge last week, widespread rumours of an imminent pay rise for Jordan Henderson, and suggestions that staff are beavering away even as we speak on offers for Raheem Sterling and Steven Gerrard. Talking of Liverpool, transfer target Xherdan Shaqiri has issued a-not-convincingly-heartfelt go-away-and-forget-me plea. “I’ve got a contract until 2016 and the club have already told me I won’t be going anywhere so I’ve just got to accept that,” he sobbed. That leaves the Reds free to concentrate on other targets, who include Heerenveen midfielder Daley Sinkgraven, about whom the internet doesn’t really know very much – apparently he’s 19, and Manchester United also quite like the cut of his jib and Benfica’s Anderson Talisca, who has also attracted the attention of Arsenal. According to today’s reports the Brazilian forward, who only signed for the Portuguese giants this summer, has a release clause set at £18m – just five times what was paid for him a few months back. However, having so far worn the shirts of only three sides Bahia, Brazil and Benfica, perhaps a move to Burnley, Bolton, Blackburn or Barnet might appeal. Arsenal, meanwhile, have agreed to pay Sami Khedira’s £100,000-a-week wages and will now scuffle with Real Madrid over a fee for the German midfielder. And in tangentially-related London-based-club transfer news, record-smashing West Ham striker Diafra Sakho has revealed that Sam Allardyce didn’t really want to sign him in the first place, with the deal being pushed through by the club’s owner, David Sullivan. “Mr Sullivan stepped in when the coach started having doubts over the deal and said he would be signing me,” the striker, who has scored in each of his five starts for the club, revealed. Wayne Rooney has earned his 10-millionth Twitter follower, making him Britian’s No1 - and the world’s No5 – tweeting footballer. We should all be very proud. Rooney now stands ninth on the overall British list, albeit with only 45% of the total boasted by the man on the top of that chart, One Direction ace Harry Styles. Still at Manchester United, according to The Star, recent signings Ángel Di María and Marcos Rojo have been instructed to watch Coronation Street in order to pick up the local accent. “They are committed professionals who want to learn the language quickly,” reveals “a source”. Angel and Marcos will soon be calling people ‘love’ and ordering bacon barms just like any born-and-bred Mancunian. Managerial merry-go-round latest: the new Watford manager, Billy McKinlay, is believed to be clearing his desk after just eight days in charge, with some papers claiming he has chosen to leave in order to take over at former employers Fulham, and others that he is getting the boot so the Hertfordshire side’s Italian owners can bring in someone who speaks a language they can understand or, as The Express puts it, “Italian owner Giampaolo Pozzo wants another foreign boss and has shoved McKinlay out of the way to get one”. Should he go, the hapless Hornets, still somehow hovering in third place in the Championship, will be left seeking their fourth permanent manager of the season. |