'United’s England internationals have urged Sir Alex Ferguson to sign Everton forward Wayne Rooney' reports the Mail on Sunday. The paper says that United would bid £25m for Rooney should RVN move.
A draft from The People: The sources even named the Old Convent hotel as the venue where the hush-hush summit was supposed to have taken place.
It is the same spot where Patrick Vieira was said to have met Real a year ago in another cloak-and-dagger move that was set up by the Madrid super club.
The rumours - reported in the informed Marca newspaper - say that Real wanted to speak to van Nistelrooy to see if he was interested before going ahead with a bid.
And the word from the Bernabeu is that van Nistelrooy, who has had a disappointing season for United and missed his third penalty of the campaign yesterday, gave them encouragement.
The paper goes on to say that United have made a £14m bid for Marseille forward Didier Drogba who was shit hot against the barcodes the other night.
The Express claim that United will be forced to accept £40million from Real and that we will get Rooney and Smith with the cash.
The News of the World says that 'Manchester United and Liverpool have both joined the chase for Leeds United’s £9m-rated forward Alan Smith'.
Atletico Madrid's president Enrique Cerez told The Sunday Mirror that Fernando Torres is going nowhere: 'They can keep knocking at the door, but we will continue to refuse to open it," Cerez told The Sunday Mirror.
"Some of the money that has already been offered to us has been crazy, but Torres stays with Atletico."