A noble but possibly misguided gesture from a club chasing a Champions League spot
Liverpool look set to win the race to sign Burnley striker Danny Ings, report The Daily Express, yet are willing to loan him back to the Clarets for the remainder of the season. Ings is out of contract in the summer but Liverpool are looking long-term by stumping up cash and letting Burnley keep their top goalscorer until May. The canny move should jump the Reds up the bartering queue at Turf Moor.
Our tech wizards have come up with a composite of how Ings would celebrate an Anfield goal will a dazzled Martin Skrtel.
Roberto Mancini wants Yaya Toure badly and doesn’t care who knows. The Manchester City midfielder once again finds himself linked with a summer move to Inter Milan. [Sky Sports]
Sami Khedira, currently being used as a paper-weight on Carlo Ancelotti’s desk, looks set to snub the Premier League interests of Manchester United and Arsenal to head east. Trabzonspor are, The Daily Star tell us, the favourites to land the German midfielder.
Anderson could be off for another holiday at Manchester United’s expense. Brazilian side Internacional are interested in paying a fraction of the mordant midfielder’s wages, in exchange for his footballing gloss, until the end of the season. [Daily Telegraph]
The Jose Cuadrado to Chelsea rumours won’t quit, Leicester City want Stoke’s Robert Huth and The Express and Star report a bizarre, yet oddly logical, Tony Pulis mission to get Diego Forlan (formerly of Manchester United) on loan from his Japanese club until the end of the season.
