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Friday's gossip round-up

Martinez to Terry: Stop tapping up Stones
Roberto Martinez has told John Terry to butt out of Everton’s business... and stop tapping up John Stones. The Blues boss is angry at what he sees as an “illegal” approach from the Chelsea skipper ,following the London club’s two bids for Stones.
Terry pointedly suggested this week the Goodison centre- back would be his perfect replacement and a great signing for Chelsea .
Martinez said: “You know that is illegal, the rules don’t allow you to comment on players that are registered at other clubs in that open manner, that is disappointing.
“You know, I know. We all know there are rules and regulations and it is something we don’t want to see when other clubs speak about your players. It is wrong and it shouldn’t happen.
“As clubs we have a good understanding of where we are and I don’t think it is something to get the managers involved in.”

Friday's gossip round-up

Ladies and gentlemen, the new Premier League campaign is just a matter of hours away - 24 in fact.
Most top-flight sides have completed their pre-season schedules and will be raring to go for the big kick-off on Saturday.
Arsenal began this season as they ended last, when they hoisted up silverware at Wembley in the Community Shield - but will they be celebrating come May?
Manchester United are on the lookout for Angel Di Maria’s replacement while Chelsea and Man City could also be busy.
There’s still four days for Premier League sides to bring in new blood before the season starts though, as a manic summer transfer window shows no signs of slowing down.

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Good morning ladies and gents and welcome to another day of the transfer window.
Guess what ... ? The season starts TONIGHT!

*faints*

But never fear the rumour mill continues to whirl ever faster as we near the deadline and clubs up and down the country are working up a frenzy trying to add new faces to improve their squads.
We will have the latest news, views, opinions, speculation and water-cooler chatter throughout Friday right here for you so sit back, relax and open up a browser tab and wait for the transfer fun and games to come to you. Without further ado, off we go ...

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Arsenal set aside 65M for Benzema raid

Arsène Wenger hasn’t forgotten about Karim Benzema. The French manager wants to bring the striker to Arsenal and has put aside 65 million euros to lure Benzema to London, although Wenger himself is fully aware of how difficult such an operation would be.
Arsenal are looking to add a top level striker and a centre-back to the squad before the season starts and Benzema is a priority. The club’s technical department are studying other options but until they have used up every resource to land the Madrid striker, other candidates will remain secondary to Wenger’s plans.
Publicly, the manager has been careful to divert the attention away from the issue. “There are a thousand possibilities that he will continue at Real Madrid”, Wenger said last week, paraphrasing declarations made by the player’s agent.
Since Thierry Henry and Robin van Persie left, Wenger has been without an out and out centre-forward. Last season Alexis Sánchez contributed 16 goals, deployed either on the wing or as a false No.9 alongside Olivier Giroud, who scored less (14 in 27 outings last term) and has had run-ins with the boss, including one over a well-publicized incident involved a French model at the team hotel
But the operation to land Benzema is full of complications. He renewed his contract until 2019 with Madrid just over a year ago and as it stands, he is the team’s first choice striker, although Benítez has experimented this summer with Jesé and Cristiano playing in a more central position in an attempt to have an alternative to the ‘BBC’ attacking trio.
During the recent tours of Australia and China, Benzema offered two contrasting sides to his game – he scored a sensational volley against Manchester City in Melbourne but was largely absent in the friendly against AC Milan in Shanghai. Benítez is also concerned that the player is struggling to apply the pressure which he is demanding from the whole team to make his 4-2-3-1 set-up function as he intends.

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