Friday's transfer gossip: United step up Berbatov chase

Here's our round-up of all today's transfer rumours, including the latest on Manchester United's summer transfer plans, news of developments in the Frank Lampard transfer saga and round-up of all today's rumours. 

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Berba's mine - The Sun
Sir Alex Ferguson is convinced he will sign Dimitar Berbatov, the Tottenham striker, before the start of the season.

Barca's £24m bid for Berba - Daily Mirror
Barcelona are poised to rival United's bid for the Bulgarian, after missing out on Emmanuel Abebayor.

Liverpool to sell Voronin to finance Barry bid - Daily Mirror
Rafael Benitez will sell Andrei Voronin to a German club for around £3m to help finance the signing of Gareth Barry.

Blues snub Eto'o swap with Drog - The Sun
Chelsea have rejected Barcelona's offer of a swap deal involving Samuel Eto'o and Didier Drogba.

Inter to bid £3m Mour for Lamps - The Sun
Inter Milan will today make a fresh bid for Frank Lampard which will be in the region of £11m.

Frank's torn - Daily Mirror
Inter Milan have warned Frank Lampard they will look elsewhere if his move to the Italian club is not completed soon.

Scott Ya - The Sun
Scott Carson, the England goalkeeper, will join West Brom from Liverpool after rejecting a move to Stoke City.

Potters get new £5m Kit - Daily Mirror
Dave Kitson, the Reading forward, is set to complete a £5m move to Stoke.

Kranjcar staying put - The Sun
Nico Kranjcar will stay at Portsmouth after snubbing a £12m move to Monaco.

Keegan seeks youth after losing Aimar race - The Independent
Newcastle are looking at other targets after losing out to Benfica in the race to sign the Argentine midfielder from Real Zaragoza.

Bruce fails in £9m offer for Johnson - The Guardian
But Wigan plan to make Everton an improved offer for Andrew Johnson after having a £9m bid rejected.

Comments

[D Roberts]

Do you think Spurs want to get rid of their best players? How can they keep them when they do not want to play for the club?
This would be an impossible situation. They have to make the best of a bad job an obtain as much money as possible for them.

[Graham Duncan]

Any player is only as good as his determination to play well.Whilst Keane (to date) never appeared to give les than 100% effort the same can not be said of Berbatov who looked too casual by far for most of last season. His loss will be made up in part by getting someone who will give his all. However for Spurs to loose Keane as well would be a massive blow!

[Harris]

of course they want to hold them, but when a player's head has been turned by CL football and a move to a club in the top4 year in year out - not too mention the current european champions and the other lot being the champions twice out of the last 4 years, it is a little hard to stop it affecting your players and making them want to leave.

[R Morrison]

What is it about Spurs?? They buy qualiy and appear to wish to lose some of the best strikers in the land. Surely Ramos can see that it should be a priority to retain the services of their main forward partnership if they are to move forward into the upper reaches of the Prem. The fact that Berbatov and Keano are such hot propity should convince the management that they must hang on to thses top players - at any cost.