Tuesday's football rumour mill

Andrei Arshavin is gearing up for a move to England this month
Andrei Arshavin is gearing up for a move to England this month

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Monday's football rumour mill

Manchester City's spending spree has been mostly rumours up until now, but the next few days are likely to see some new arrivals actually putting pen to paper.

Eastlands has been a hive of transfer activity so far this month
 

Tuesday, 20, Jan 2009 11:37

Manchester City may have missed out on signing one highly-rated playmaker, but that has not stopped the big spenders from immediately beginning their pursuit of another.

AC Milan star Kaka has turned down a world record salary from City to stay in Italy, meaning he will not be making what had been rumoured to be a £100m-plus switch to Eastlands.

However, the club are rumoured to now be on the trail of another link man - £15 million-rated Andrei Arshavin from Zenit St Petersburg.

The Russian is already in talks with Arsenal, and Zenit boss Dick Advocaat is confident a move to England will be finalised.

But no one is ruling out a last-ditch change of heart from the Russian international if City come a-knocking with a big-money contract in hand.

Elsewhere, West Ham United boss Gianfranco Zola is set to dip his toe in the transfer market to spend some of the £14 million garnered from selling Craig Bellamy to City yesterday.

Atop the Italian's wish list is Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner, who is apparently being touted around by Arsene Wenger for a January transfer.

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