Weekend review of the English press © EuroFootball.com

On Saturday and Sunday, the English press writes about Darren Bent's hunt, possible departure of J.Mourinho from "Chelsea", "Real" desire to get rid of Ronaldo and acquire A.Shevchenko, "Man Utd" intentions to buy O.Hargreaves and presents other transfer news.

"Charlton" forward Darren Bent is hunted by "Chelsea" and "West Ham", but the footballer is more inclined to move to "Tottenham", with "Charlton" receiving Calum Davenport and a sum of cash for him ("The Sun", "Daily Express").

"Chelsea" is ready to lure Milan Baros from "Aston Villa" (Various sources).

"Charlton" is considered the main contender to acquire "Arsenal" forward Anthony Stokes ("Daily Star").

"Celtic" announced that they will acquire A.Stokes for 2 million pounds sterling ("The Sun", "Daily Mirror").

"Celtic" is also interested in A.Stokes ("Sunday Mirror").

"Celtic" officially acquired Kevin Thomson and Scott Brown from "Hibernian" ("Daily Record").

"Tottenham" are considered the main contenders to invite "Watford" defender Ashley Young ("Daily Mirror").

The last club interested in A.Young is "Everton" ("Daily Express").

"West Ham" would stop being interested in A.Young if they acquired Shaun Wright-Phillips from "Chelsea" ("The Independent").

"Tottenham", after failing to acquire Curtis Davies from "W.B.A." for 5 million pounds sterling, have entered the battle with "Aston Villa" and "West Ham" for Sh.W.-Phillips ("The Sun").

"Chelsea" would acquire Luca Neill or Tal Ben Haim for lower prices ("Daily Mirror").

"West Ham" is also interested in T.Ben Haim ("Sunday Mirror").

"Man Utd" is expected to buy Owen Hargreaves from "Bayern" for 17 million pounds sterling in the next two days ("Daily Mirror").

"Wigan" is persistent in trying to acquire Alan Smith, although he is determined to stay at "Man Utd" and they are offering 6 million pounds sterling for him ("Daily Mail", "News of the World").

"Bolton" wants to invite Swiss Blerim Dzemaili ("Daily Mail").

"Blackburn" is ready to offer a new deal worth 1.2 million pounds sterling per year to defender David Bentley ("Daily Express").

"West Ham" captain Nigel Reo-Coker will leave the club next week and move to "Tottenham" or "Bolton" ("Daily Mirror").

"Charlton" is interested in former "Chelsea" defender Aleksey Smertin, Greg Halford from "Colchester" and Nigel Quashie from "W.B.A." ("The Times").

"Aston Villa" is willing to borrow defender Phil Bardsley from "Man Utd" ("The Times").

"Birmingham" will borrow defender Sebastian Larsson from "Arsenal" for 500,000 pounds sterling ("The Independent").

"Rangers" are hoping to extend Andy Webster's loan from "Wigan" for a longer period this summer ("The Sun").

"Liverpool" is involved in the fight for "Charlton" forward Darren Bent ("Sunday Mirror").

MLS club Los Angeles "Galaxy" will try to attract Real Madrid defender David Beckham again ("The People").

"Newcastle" plans to acquire defender Kieran Richardson from "Man Utd" ("The People").

"Southampton" defender Gareth Bale will decide in the next 48 hours whether to accept the offer from "Man Utd" ("The People").

Real Madrid wants to attract "Chelsea" unwanted Andrei Shevchenko, offering Ronaldo in return ("AS" in Spain).

Ronaldo and Antonio Cassano are also offered by "Milan", but the Italian club stated they are not interested in this pair ("AS" in Spain).

"Real" is offering 15 million pounds sterling to "Marseille" for Franck Ribery ("The Star").

"West Ham" is interested in Shaun Wright-Phillips, Lauren, and Joey Barton ("The Daily Star on Sunday").

Portsmouth coach Harry Redknapp offers 4 million pounds sterling to "Auxerre" for France youth national team defender Younes Kaboul ("The Star").

"Chelsea" offers "Man City" 3 million pounds sterling for defender Sylvain Distin ("News of the World").

"Arsenal" will allow Freddie Ljungberg to leave the club ("News of the World").

Sven-Goran Eriksson is likely to become the coach of "Marseille", and he would like to invite David Beckham to this club ("News of the World").

Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho wants "Tottenham" forward Jermain Defoe ("Sunday Times").

The Scottish Football Association is worried whether the national team coach will be able to work with "Rangers" and the national team ("Daily Record", "Daily Mail").

J.Mourinho may leave "Chelsea" in the summer (Various sources).

The main contender to replace him is Guus Hiddink (Various sources).

J.Mourinho allowed Lassana Diarra to play in the FA Cup match against "Macclesfield" instead of F.Lampard, but the young Frenchman missed a pre-match meeting ("News of the World").

"Arsenal" will offer a new contract to Emmanuel Adebayor ("News of the World").

New "Fulham" forward Vincenzo Montella says he has found a completely different environment in London ("The Sunday Express").

"Arsenal" sponsors "Emirates" want the third team jerseys not to be white and similar to "Tottenham" ("Sunday Mirror").