TRANSFER RUMOURS
Everton are ready to offer £2m for out-of-favour Portsmouth midfielder Sean Davis (Mail).

Portsmouth are interested in taking Bobby Zamora from West Ham either on loan or in a permanent move (Mirror).

Newcastle want to take Sol Campbell from Portsmouth, with Manchester City's Micah Richards and Manchester United's Michael Carrick also on their shopping list (Star).

Tottenham boss Juande Ramos has decided he wants to keep Jermain Defoe at the club despite suggestions he could join Aston Villa (Times).

Burnley could make a shock £750,000 move for Dundee United captain Barry Robson (Mirror).

OTHER GOSSIP
Liverpool's American owners have rejected an initial £300m offer from Dubai International Capital to buy the club (Times).

John Terry has still not spoken to Fabio Capello and does not yet know if he will be his England captain (Mirror).

Terry Venables is favourite to be the next Republic of Ireland boss as Gerard Houllier's contract buy-out with the French Football Federation is too high (Mail).

Former Preston and Derby boss Billy Davies is on stand-by to replace George Burley at Southampton if Burley gets the Scotland job (Mirror).

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill says the club does not have a big enough squad to cope with the demands of playing in Europe (Independent).

Sir Alex Ferguson says he was just expressing "relief" at Cristiano Ronaldo's late goal, rather than being insulting, when cameras caught him making gestures to the crowd at Reading (Various).

Kevin Keegan says he is "sure" Alan Shearer will manage Newcastle at some point in the future (Sun).

Norwich boss Glenn Roeder wants Dion Dublin to put off his decision to retire for a year (Sun).

Manchester City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says goalkeeper Joe Hart is a future England player and would not be fazed if he was called up now (Mirror

AND FINALLY
Tottenham's Jermain Defoe says he was "a bit embarrassed" to be made captain on Saturday as he knew it would raise speculation about his future at the club (Times).

Reading skipper Graeme Murty swapped shirts with Cristiano Ronaldo on Saturday but had it pinched from the dressing room when he was in the shower (Star).

When he was a boy Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor practiced his heading by hanging a ball from a piece of string and shortening the string every time he managed to touch it (Guardian).



Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov won Lithuania's version of Strictly Come Dancing (Independent).

Hermann Hreidarsson's reward for winning Iceland's player of the year award was an encyclopaedia of Icelandic grammar which was too big for him to bring to England (Mirror)

Little Britain star Matt Lucas has sent Arsene Wenger a full set of the show's DVDs after meeting the Arsenal boss last week (Mirror).