Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Daley Sinkgraven?
LONDON. KAZINFORM According to an exclusive in The Sun, Harry Redknapp is refusing to sign the new contract QPR have offered him and has instead threatened to quit the club and walk out of football altogether at the end of the season.
That's if he's allowed to wait that long, responds anyone who watched their performance at West Ham at the weekend. "I told Tony four weeks ago that I do not want a contract," he said. "We'll see where QPR finish the season and take it from there. If we get relegated I wouldn't expect to stay and I wouldn't want to. We'll see where we are come next May won't we. I may have had enough by then and so might the people that run the club." Which is news to the folk at The Mirror, whose own exclusive reveals that QPR have withdrawn their offer of a new contract for Redknapp because the team are bottom of the Premier League and playing like extras from The Walking Dead. Either way, though, everyone can agree that Redknapp is not about to sign a new contract, the Guardian reports. Neither is Glen Johnson, the Liverpool full-back admitting that talks with the club over an extension have gone "very quiet", which must be particularly galling given the new deal snapped up by Daniel Sturridge last week, widespread rumours of an imminent pay rise for Jordan Henderson, and suggestions that staff are beavering away even as we speak on offers for Raheem Sterling and Steven Gerrard. Talking of Liverpool, transfer target Xherdan Shaqiri has issued a-not-convincingly-heartfelt go-away-and-forget-me plea. "I've got a contract until 2016 and the club have already told me I won't be going anywhere so I've just got to accept that," he sobbed. That leaves the Reds free to concentrate on other targets, who include Heerenveen midfielder Daley Sinkgraven, about whom the internet doesn't really know very much - apparently he's 19, and Manchester United also quite like the cut of his jib and Benfica's Anderson Talisca, who has also attracted the attention of Arsenal. According to today's reports the Brazilian forward, who only signed for the Portuguese giants this summer, has a release clause set at £18m - just five times what was paid for him a few months back. However, having so far worn the shirts of only three sides Bahia, Brazil and Benfica, perhaps a move to Burnley, Bolton, Blackburn or Barnet might appeal.