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The English press writes about the very active interest of "West Ham" in the transfer market, B. Ferguson's "hunt", "Chelsea" defender searches, "Wigan's" intentions to lower ticket prices for matches and other news.
"West Ham" hopes to acquire Shaun Wright-Phillips from "Chelsea" for £9.8 million ("The Sun").
"Preston" rejected a £6 million bid from "Sheffield Utd" to buy David Nugent ("Daily Mail").
"Fulham" is prepared to acquire forward Freddy Eastwood from "Southend" and also wants to loan Lassana Diarra from "Chelsea" ("Daily Star").
In the case of Javier Mascherano's transfer to "Liverpool," FIFA should be consulted to see if he would be allowed to play for a third club in a season ("Daily Star").
Alan Curbishley would like to loan Mark Viduka from "Middlesbrough" or John Hartson from "W.B.A." to "West Ham" ("Daily Star").
The "Hammers" are also interested in Nigel Quashie from "W.B.A." ("The Sun"), Anthony Gardner from "Tottenham" ("Daily Mail") and Lucas Neill from "Blackburn" ("The Guardian").
"Arsenal" did not want to loan their forward T. Walcott to A. Curbishley ("The Times").
M. Viduka rejected West Ham's offer and will be leaving for Italy in the summer ("The Sun").
"Man Utd" are in contact with "Bayern" again regarding Owen Hargreaves ("The Sun").
Inter Milan denied rumors that Luis Figo would leave to play in Saudi Arabia ("The Sun").
"Chelsea" disagrees with the £3.5 million offered by "Bolton" for Tal Ben Haim ("Daily Star").
The "Blues" are also interested in Jorge Andrade from "Deportivo", Sylvain Distin from "Man City" and Roberto Ayala from "Valencia" ("The Times").
"Fulham" borrowed forward Vincenzo Montella from "Roma" for six months ("Daily Express").
"Man City" defender Micah Richards wants to play for "Chelsea," but must wait for the transfer until summer ("The Guardian").
David Jones from "Man Utd" will move to "Derby County" for £1.1 million ("Daily Star").
"Aston Villa" coach Martin O'Neill says he is not convinced that Milan Baros wants to stay at the club ("Daily Mirror").
"Portsmouth" will try to acquire Yossi Benayoun from "West Ham," and if this deal fails, they will try to attract Zoltan Gera from "W.B.A." ("The Independent").
"Aston Villa" and "Everton" are competing for the opportunity to invite "Rangers" midfielder Barry Ferguson ("Daily Record").
Former coach Dick Advocaat, who now works at "Zenit," is also interested in B. Ferguson ("Daily Record").
"Rangers" or "Celtic" may take over "Hibernian" midfielders Scott Brown and Kevin Thomson in the next 24 hours ("Daily Record").
"Falkirk" forward Alan Gow has attracted interest from "Hibernian", "Rangers", "Celtic", "Wolves" and "Aberdeen" ("Scottish Sun").
Sven-Goran Eriksson is negotiating with "Marseille" ("Daily Star").
"Wigan" intends to lower ticket prices to attract more spectators to the stadium ("Daily Mirror").
"Liverpool" will not spend in the transfer market until the team is taken over by investors from Dubai ("Daily Express").
