* The Daily Star Sunday reports that United are ready to bid for Joe Cole.
* Michael Ballack will join Chelsea in the summer, according to the German club's general manager, Uli Hoeness who was spaeking on German TV yesterday.
* And this is The Sunday Times:
Players of FA Cup semi-finalists West Ham returned to England on Friday after spending a week in Dubai on a team-building exercise. Dubai is, of course, the Arabic country which does not allow Israeli nationals or Jews across its borders. That resulted in first-team midfielder Yossi Benayoun and striker Yaniv Katan having to settle for their own mini-bonding session in Spain, 3,500 miles away from the rest of the squad.