Man City close to Eto’o signing

Having secured the signing of midfielder Gareth Barry on Tuesday, Manchester City have turned their attentions to Barcelona's Champions League winning striker Samuel Eto'o, according to the Daily Mail. The Eastlands club are offering Barca £20m for the player, who is believed to have been impressed by Man City's plan for the future. The signing of Eto'o, who scored against Manchester United in the Champions League final, should add more spice if it were needed to future clashes between the great rivals...

Chelsea have conceded defeat in their pursuit of AC Milan's Brazilian superstar Kaka, and have turned their attentions instead to bringing Franck Ribery from Bayern Munich or Valencia's David Villa to Stamford Bridge, the Guardian reveals. New boss Carlo Ancelotti had hoped to hijack the £56m deal that Real Madrid are set to seal for Kaka, who Ancelotti previously managed, but is now focussing his efforts on bringing one of the other European 'Galacticos' to west London...

Another target for Ancelotti appears to be Portsmouth's Glen Johnson, a former Chelsea player. Chelsea will offer a deal that could eventually reach £17m for the England defender, despite having sold him to the south coasters for just £4m less than two years ago, reports the Daily Mail. If the transfer goes through early next week, it will be the second time in less than seven days that Liverpool will have been gazumped in the market - they missed out on Gareth Barry earlier this week, and had hoped to secure Johnson's signature too...

Arsene Wenger could be close to making his first foray into the transfer market, the Sun reports. The Arsenal boss needs to strengthen his defence and is keen on signing Thomas Vermaelen from Ajax Amsterdam. The Belgian centre-half is considered one of the best defenders in the Dutch league, and would command a transfer fee of £10m, which would exhaust Wenger's transfer fund and mean he has to sell to buy any more players... ·