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'Lassana Diarra to complete £18m Manchester City move in January'
Lassana
Diarra is set to give Portsmouth fans a Christmas farewell by making an
early return from injury before completing an £18million January move
to Manchester City.
Diarra has pencilled in Pompey's trip to
Bolton a week tomorrow after undergoing treatment on an ankle injury in
France. Boss Tony Adams, said: "It will be great to have him back."
The Daily Star do the same...
'SPARKY TOLD TO FORGET FAB GRAB'
SEVILLE are ready to turn down a £25m bid by Manchester City for star striker Luis Fabiano.
Mark Hughes wants to make the highly-rated hitman the next samba star to grace Eastlands.
Starsport
revealed last week that Fabiano, 28, has had a personal recommendation
from City’s new favourite, record signing Robinho.
But the
Spanish club’s president Jose Maria Del Nido has rejected any chance of
City picking up the Brazilian in the January window.
He said: “We have already discarded this opportunity because we feel that it will damage the team.
“We
are involved in a lot of competitions and at the moment we do not want
to lose such an important player. We are not interested in the money.
“I will not change my mind.
“Today Seville are not a selling club and the idea of winning matches is more important to us than money.
“The player and the agent have been told this.
“But the situation could be completely different in the summer.’’
Del Nido’s stance shows the problem big-spending City might face in January.
Major teams do not want to part with their prized assets in January.
City
have made it clear to Fabiano’s agent Jose Fuentes that they want to
take him next month but they are aware that it will not be easy.
They have also been linked with Valencia’s Spain striker David Villa.
And finally, The Times tell us...
'David Moyes eyeing move for striker Jô'
David
Moyes has identified Jô, the out-of-favour Manchester City forward, as
a solution to Everton's shortage of attackers. Jô has made a negligible
impact since joining City from CSKA Moscow for a projected £19million
fee in July, but Moyes, the Everton manager, is interested in signing
him on loan next month after losing Yakubu Ayegbeni and Louis Saha to
injury.
Moyes has already acknowledged that, due to the club's
financial position, he is unlikely to have much money to strengthen his
squad during the January transfer window, so a loan move for Jô is
likely to appeal. Mark Hughes, the City manager, appears to have little
confidence in the Brazil forward's ability to adapt to the demands of
English football, but a loan move would offer Jô the chance to gain
experience or, if he does not have a long-term future at City, to
increase his resale value.
The deal to sign Jô, arranged mainly
by representatives of Thaksin Shinawatra, the former City owner, was
already close to being finalised when Hughes took charge of the team in
June. The 21-year-old, a prolific goal-scorer in Russia, showed
encouraging signs in the first few weeks of this season, but has scored
only three goals, of which two were against Omonia Nicosia in the Uefa
Cup, and he has appeared for only 14 minutes in the Barclays Premier
League since October 20.
Ched Evans and Daniel Sturridge, two
teenagers, have often been summoned from the bench in preference in
recent weeks and, with Hughes eager to sign Roque Santa Cruz from
Blackburn Rovers next month, Jô's prospects at City appear bleak.
With
Yakubu in danger of missing the remainder of the season with a ruptured
Achilles tendon and Saha out for several weeks with a hamstring injury,
Jô is one of a few options being considered by Moyes. He is pondering a
short-term loan deal for Henrik
Larsson, the Sweden forward at
Helsingborgs, while Kléber, the Brazilian striker who is on loan from
Dynamo Kiev to Palmeiras, is another possibility.
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