Chelsea are set to step up their efforts to sign Ashley Young but will have to bid £25m to prise the winger from Aston Villa.
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Maybe this is why Aston Villa went out and signed Stewart Downing? Chelsea have yet to make any impact in this transfer market and pre season is only a few days away.

Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor has asked for more time before he makes a final decision on a transfer to Manchester City – the Togo international is possibly holding out for AC Milan to make a last-minute move. The Sun

Somebody from A.C Milan should just save Adebayor the time and say no chance they're going to pay him the rumoured 170k a week Manchester City will.

The Gunners have had a £7m bid for Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh rejected, with the French club asking for defender Mikael Silvestre to be added to the offer. The Sun

Borbeaux must not of seen many Arsenal games last season which Mikael Silvestre featured in.

Manchester City have made a surprise move for Tottenham winger David Bentley, who is valued at about £12m by the north London club. Daily Mirror

Have a feeling Harry Redknapp would do a fist pump over this news. Would also reunite David Bentley and Mark Hughes who were together previously at Blackburn.

Tottenham could beat Stuttgart to the signing of Real Madrid striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who is stalling on a £15.5m move to Germany in the hope of joining the Premier League side. Daily Mirror

Someone should change the last part to a top Premier League side.

Manchester United chief executive David Gill says the club may still add to their squad, despite boss Sir Alex Ferguson’s insistence that no new players will join this summer. Daily Mirror

Gotta keep the fans hopes alive. The transfer window does close on August 31st. Who knows by then another player just might fall in United’s lap.

Manchester City’s new signing Carlos Tevez is said to be “very interested” in buying the £5m mansion that his former team-mate at Manchester United Cristiano Ronaldo is selling following his switch to Real Madrid. (Various)

Was curious to see who was going to take Ronaldo’s house off his hands.

The mega-rich owner of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour, met the club’s players at his palace in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and presented each of them with a watch worth £168,000. The Sun

If you are a player like Ched Evans who many not even make that in a year wouldn’t the first thing you do is sell the thing? Who under the age of 30 wears watches anymore anyway?