Spurs and Arsenal in SWP battle; concern over Chelsea's star trio; Liverpool's £5m Italian job. Paper talk or the real thing?

If he knows whats good for him he will give Jose another chance, and not flee for North London

Fair point with the whole City bid for the Swedish battering ram, worth a try though! Why don't we try to get SWP back! he's worth it for the letter printing on the back of replica shirts alone! we could make millions at a pound a letter!

As a Spurs fan i am honestly not sure we need SWP or Petrov, maybe another centre back and a replacement keeper but not another winger.

As an Arsenal fan i am firstly sure that a) if you don't want him we would take him, but equally sure that given the choice he would no doubt opt for Arsenal, not trying to start a ruck or anything it just seems to me he might want Champions League football next season

if he new wot was good for him he wouldnt have gone to stamford bridge to be a bench warmer

further to the recent comment that spurs dont need another winger they do we have had the left winger position vacant for years now or with a substandard player filling in in that position so SWP or Petrov could both play there. would be nice to have petrov cos he is an out and out left sided player. but i would like both seeing as we really struggled last year when lennon was injured and jenas and ghaly were rubbish on the right

I agree with you assesment, Spurs would snap him up!

I've always liked SWP. I'm sure that if we'd come in for him at the same time as Chel$ki and with a similar bid he would no doubt have come to us and not them. His dad is a legend for christ's sake. He grew up supporting us and it'd be a dream for him to come. Both for him and me. He's be the answer to our lack of wingers!

Chelsea fans are so ignorant that they come across as stupid. If they're not stupid then they do a good job of pretending. 'If he knows whats good for him he will give Jose another chance'. IF HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOOD FOR HIM HE WOULD NEVER HAVE JOINED A SMALL TEAM WHO WON THE LOTTO.

How can you say that we don`t need another winger when Lennon play all matches last year even though he were tired and played bad at the end?! and teemu taino and jermain jenas played wingers last year!!

Paul Dickov won't be upfront for City next season you clown, try the Italian Stallion, Rolano Bianchi for starters. You just won't believe will you?

What is up at Chelsea my old son is that we have put together an even stronger squad than the last two seasons. Papers and web sites and more importantly players agents, who really are the scum of football, have nothing better to do than create fantasies about speculation. SWP, regardless of what the blinkered people commenting here think, has played a lot of games for Chelsea and has won things in the last 2 years which is certainly something he would not have done at Spurts or Arsenal or anywhere else for that matter.

I agree that SWP has begun to turn the corner and has played his part at Chelsea, agree too with your views on agents, they have become even more loathsome than i previously though imaginable.

Apologies for the Paul Dickov reference that was obviously done for a laugh but you are not seriously considering Zlatan would move to Eastlands, also what is to stop Bianchi from becoming another Corradi, Samaras or even like Boro's Maccarone nightmare?

SWP is the perfect example of an arrogant manager destroying the career of one of Englands finest young talents. Mourinho didnt need him, still doesnt need him but will not let his closest rivals have him. A real shame for Shaun because he is a good kid and on his day 10 times better than Lennon. Arsenal wouldnt stand a chance of signing him now while Chelsea own him.

What we have with the 3 you mention is, in the case of two of them Lampard and Robben, negotiations via the media. Does not put them in a good light and certainly annoys a large number of Chelsea fans. If Lampard is only gonna stay because of the money then perhaps he should not put on the Chelsea blue again let alone kiss the badge everytime he scores. Must be a case of believing his own hyped up PR stuff in the papers. JT on the other hand has been quiet and seemingly content to let things move along at their own pace. Bruce Buck is correct they all have 2 years left on their contracts and there is no immediate rush to get things sorted by the beginning of the season.

this has got to be the very silly season santa cruz for westham who will you have us buying next the geeza who wears that red and white kit whats his name santa claus cant you link us with someone abit more realistic like defoe martins or gudjonson

All will be revealled in the fullness of time. Any new signing can prove to be a dud, that's the risk every club takes when they sign a new player. I think 18 goals in Serie A with a smaller team speaks for itself, and so does Lord Svennis of Eastlands, so that will do for me. As for Zlatan, I didn't write the suggestion but I wouldn't dismiss anything out of hand, City now have serious money to spend and the right man to spend it. , you'll see.

At the end of the day we are a million times better then any other football team in the premiership. We have better players, passers and scorers. Wenger is the best manager ever and makes Ferguson, Shankly, Paisley and Nicholson look like amatuers. As for Spurs, we are in a different league to them, they will never win another trophy because we will always knock them out. The will get relegated and go broke next season meanwhile we will do the Treble again.

Dave you are a funny but deluded guy. I think you need to realise that dreams aren't real. If you are a million times better, why are you coming forth? I am a Spurs fan and by no means am I saying that we will definately come forth and you will come below us but I think we have a good chance and we'll have a good crack at it. Saying we're going to get relagated and go broke is purely childish. After all, who is in a better financial position you south londoners or us the real north london kings?

I'm an arsenall fan for all my life but Dave, you have a serious problem!!! Yes we are the best footballing side in the premiership but you dont get points for pretty passes. As for spurs going broke I doubt it. We will be stronger this year without Henry as we will change our style of play instead of relying on him but please tell me. Apart from the Arsenal ladies team, when did we last do the treble?!?!?

The Arsenal may be from south london originally but we le spurs are not the real kings of north london! maybe in the early eighties ok when i came out of nappies and started wearing frilly knickers, but definently not know! we might be the chumps of north london who have no shame and most of our fans live in tower blocks and caravans and dont have a brain to think for themselves and believe the media as gospel and live on a diet of takeaways and big brother and the sun newspaper is there god, but we have to be careful at le spurs that we will be in the shits again if we don't watch out with our crazy spending. Arsenal are financially very secure and all the debt is paper money and not actual! we the le spurs have to face facts that they are a bigger club better stadium better players better manager more fans basacilly we are trying to be a mini me of them! even know with a new stadium and all the french /african /north african and other foriegners at the lane.. so chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase me big martin an

Ibrahimovich to have newcastle medical on thursday and will sign 5 year deal. Also cannavaro will follow early next week, will be given number 6 shirt.

ibrahimovich. yep he's a big boy at 6ft 5.. love to get hold of him and be part of the best strike force out there.. the bent and always keen one at the lane....