Tuesday’s rumours
But no. The Mill saw the light. The Daily Mail’s problem pages revealed how Roman Abramovich has wandering eyes and can’t help flirting with Dutch lovelies. Frank Rijkaard is the latest stunner thought to be on Chelsea’s never-ending shopping list. With the imminent arrival of Henk ten Cate from Ajax, it was assumed that Roman would bring in Guus Hiddink, but the Mill reads that Ajax striker Klaas-Jan Hunterlaar will be dragged into the Stamford Bridge vortex of doom, followed by Barcelona-based supermodel Rijkaard in the summer. One onlooker, who wasn’t there, is thought not to have said: “They couldn’t keep their hands off each other. They looked so in love.”The Mirror’s agony uncles report that heartbroken Martin Jol has found out that - as Barry White once said - love is really a hurting thing. Big Marty Jol wanted to walk out on ungrateful spouse Spurs and straight into the arms of Ajax, but his dreams of a place in the sun were gazumped when Ajax appointed their youth team coach instead.Staying with White Heartbreak Lane, the Super Soaraway says Russian captain Andrei Arshavin could be on his way to London for a stormy fling with the Lillywhites. Talks have begun with the right-sided midfielder from Zenit St Petersburg who led his country against England last month, after which he said of potential love-interest Paul Robinson: “England do not have normal keepers. Robinson is not the strongest representative of his profession.”Dear Deirdre, I like to call my own penis “the Hulk”. Am I normal? writes JD (The Bench, White Hart Lane). And yet again from the house of pain, the Express are claiming Sven-Goran Eriksson wants occasional England scamperer and trousersnake-namer Jermain Defoe to move to Manchester City. Sven, not shy of a little roleplay himself, will try to bring Defoe to Eastlands in the January transfer window for %26#163;12m.”I am a rich, successful and handsome man but my demanding nature keeps putting potential partners off. I’ve had a series of short and stormy relationships, but I’m so impatient that if I don’t get exactly what I want, I dump them and just pick up someone else.” No, not the Mill writing about itself (though it might as well be). The Express say Simon Jordan is about to appoint Neil Warnock as the successor to Peter Taylor as manager at Selhurst Park.And for a few “Lite Bites”(TM), Sheffield United and Wolves are vying for the signature of Manchester United midfielder Darren Gibson. The 19-year-old, who decided to play for the Republic rather than Northern Ireland, is on loan at the Blades, but Mick McCarthy wants to lure Gibson away by leaving a trail of dolly mixtures from the car park at Bramall Lane to his office at Molineux. Aston Villa hope to complete the deal this week for Togo midfielder Moustapha Salifou, who is still waiting for international clearance.
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