Silvio Berlusconi sets AC Milan’s sights on Adebayor

AC Milan's owner - and Italy's prime minister - Silvio Berlusconi has targeted Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor as the club's main summer transfer. Adebayor had been pursued by the Rossoneri last summer, and on that occasion used the Serie A club's interest to screw a renewed contract of £80,000 a week out of the north Londoners. However after a season of disappointing performances for Arsene Wenger's underachievers, the Togolese striker appears to be on the market, although Berlusconi will have to fight Chelsea for the 25-year-old's signature...

Meanwhile a spanner has been thrown in the works for the deal to bring AC Milan's boss Carlo Ancelotti to Stamford Bridge as Guus Hiddink's replacement at Chelsea. The Italian wants to bring his assistants Mauro Tassotti and Filippo Galli with him, but the Chelsea hierarchy feels that the existing management structure of Ray Wilkins and Paul Clement should be left in place in the interests of continuity, especially after the upheavals that followed the departures of Jose Mourinho and Luiz Felipe Scolari, and their entourages...

Wigan Athletic are looking to squeeze as much money out of either Real Madrid or Manchester United for their Ecuadorian winger Antonio Valencia, with manager Steve Bruce telling his mentor Sir Alex Ferguson to match the £21m that the Spanish giants have agreed to pay for the player. Valencia is seen in some quarters as a like-for-like replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo when the Portuguese player finally trades in life at Old Trafford, and is small change compared to some of the bigger names on offer on the continent...

Ronaldinho has denied reports that he will be tempted, perhaps by a wheelbarrow full of 500 Euro notes, to join Manchester City this summer, insisting that he is enjoying life at AC Milan despite making limited starts this season. The moneybags Mancunians were reported to have bid £10m to bring the 29-year-old Brazilian to Eastlands, but it appears that life on the well-upholstered benches of the San Siro is preferable to turning out for the most hysterical team in the Premier League. Funny that... ·