Football transfer rumours: Gianluigi Buffon to Manchester City for £30m?

Thu, May 14, 2009

Football Gossip and Transfer Rumours


Today’s rumours are on a quest for strengths

Sometimes you just have to know when to quit. Ricky Hatton could box on forever, but he’s never going to be the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world; Veronica Lario could stand by her husband Silvio Berlusconi forever, but he’s never going to stop being well, rather slimy. And the Mill could scour this morning’s papers for another hour in search of an original rumour, but it just ain’t going to happen.

So let’s just get on with re-hashing what was already out there, shall we? And what better place to start than Manchester City’s enduring fixation with Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon. Apparently, after careful consideration, Juventus have decided that £50m isn’t such a bad price to accept for a 31-year-old who probably isn’t the best at his position in Serie A these days. In fact, they might even be willing to accept a knock-down price of £30m, provided they can tie up a deal of their own for Udinese’s Samir Handanovic.

All of which is bad news for Joe Hart, whose prospects at City are now looking so bleak that picking balls out of the net for Birmingham next season is beginning to sound attractive. Still, at least he’s better off than Ryan Babel, who just two weeks ago was being linked with a move to Arsenal, but this morning finds his name printed perilously close to pictures of Steve Bruce and the words “desperate for first-team football”.

Elsewhere, in a rumour retrieved directly from May 2007, Harry Redknapp wants to sign Sulley Muntari. You’d have to go back another year before that to find the first whispers of a West Brom bid for Kevin Phillips.

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