You couldn?t make this up, Man C have allegedly offered Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Barcelona) an astonishing ?500,000 a week,the headline was blaring out the Red tops this morning, if this turns out to anything other than tabloid jerking off, would be truly remarkable, consider this colossal fee some ?92m over four years, will be on top of the ?129,000,000 already spent, and there is Balotelli (Inter Milan), ?20m +, Milner (Aston Villa) ?26m, and Luiz (Benfica) ?27m still yet to come, all taken into consideration could push the overall spend to ?270m over an overall 12 months trading statement ...now to put this into perspective there will be 2 to 3 top international players competing for every position on the pitch ....watch this space ....

On to Mesut Ozil, all bets appear to be off for Man U, who were first out the traps to sign the Werder Bremen and German International, Ozil in the final year of his contract emerged as one of the superstars from the world cup and is going begging for a bargain basement ?13m, Werder Breman needs the dosh, rumors abound that Sir Alex had secret meeting with the Bremen board recently at Fulham, but Real Madrid have express an interest and the players agent is mulling over the offers.

Now Fabregas, you have to have some sympathy for the player courted relentlessly by Barcelona, is it any wonder that the Fabregas is unsettled, this is a recent press release from Barcelona: ?In the light of the statement released today regarding the contractual future of Cesc Fabregas, FC Barcelona regrets the decision of Arsenal FC to declare the player not for sale and their decision not to take into consideration the offers proposed. None of those offers, in any way, exceeded ?40 million.?.......And we are talking about the Arsenal captain .....