Football transfer rumours: Frédéric Piquionne to Birmingham?

Wed, Mar 10, 2010

Football Gossip and Transfer Rumours


Today’s rumours are a standfirst away from a job well done (if you don’t count the lack of rumours)

You want the usual convoluted intro? Well, I want doesn’t get.

It’s not 100% certain that Franck Ribéry will go to Real Madrid, insists Frank Ribéry’s agent, through the medium of Franck Ribéry. “Barcelona are also interested,” we’re somehow supposed to believe Ribéry, and not his agent, says, “as are Chelsea. That doesn’t mean I will leave Bayern Munich. I will decide in the next two or three weeks.” The next two or three weeks promise to be just fine.

Arsenal are interested in Uruguayan sensation Abel Hernandez. The 19-year-old striker has been a “sensation” and a “revelation” since moving from Penarol to Palermo because he’s scored four goals this season, according to the Sun, who appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that it’s still 1973 over in Serie A.

Birmingham are happy to pay Lyon £3m for Frédéric Piquionne. The on-loan Portsmouth striker scored twice at the weekend to put Blues out of the FA Cup. That’s the supreme irony of this story, and one which illustrates Fleet Street’s imagination on what is in truth a day of slim pickings.

Even the Star can’t be bothered to make anything up.

Lokomotiv Moscow are still interested spending £10.5m on Roman Pavlyuchenko. But not so interested that they can lift a finger to act before the Russian transfer window closes this week.

And Sunderland want Tottenham’s Jamie O’Hara, currently on loan at Portsmouth. Again, this one’s a summer swoop.

So anyway, the Rumour Mill is considering dumping football between the months of February and May next year, and writing about summer sports such as lawn tennis, croquet, beach volleyball and al fresco binge drinking instead.

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