Football transfer rumours: Yohan Cabaye to Arsenal?
LONDON. KAZINFORM Yohan Cabaye has had a good look at the grass in Paris over the past 10 months and come to the conclusion that it's not as green as it looked when he watched it on the telly in Newcastle.
He also doesn't get to trot about on it that much, with Laurent Blanc giving him about as much time on the PSG turf as a picky park keeper allows kids to play three-and-in on the bowling green. "When I am on the pitch, I feel it is not perfect and that I often have to leave too soon ... have I spoken to Laurent Blanc? No. What do I tell him? I am 28 years old and not new to the job. But I am not satisfied with the situation," sobbed Cabaye. And when a lightweight, tricky midfielder is unhappy, naturally, an alarm goes off at Emirates Stadium. It's an alarm that will be set at ear-splitting levels after Mesut Özil got himself comfortable on the Arsenal treatment table recently. Arsène Wenger will be concerned he's left himself short in the string-pulling department, you see, the Guardian reports. And Cabaye may have company on the Eurostar in January in the form of dashing Uruguay goal god Edinson Cavani, who has been suffocating under the weight of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's ego for the past couple of seasons and would be grateful if Arsenal could send the small matter of £55m the way of the Parc des Princes to let him breathe again. West Ham and QPR will fight for the right to borrow Jermain Defoe's 32-year-old legs when the MLS season comes to a close and he's finished doing goals for Toronto. It won't be much of a fight, mind. Not if the Hoops continue to hurtle headfirst into that great big gaping hole that's opened up in west London. But this is a threadbare day. And it's a rumour. So there. "I have told the papers that they should stop wasting paper. We don't have any interest in selling Kevin." No, unfortunately it's not the Preston North End manager, Simon Grayson, trying to put an end to speculation that Kevin Davies is going to return to Bolton, it's Roma owner James Pallotta trying his damndest to ward off Manchester United suits who would very much like Holland midfielder Kevin Strootman to fill the vacancy for a midfield strongman in Louis van Gaal's Manchester United circus. He's going nowhere, not even if £75m is shoved through the letterbox at Piazzale del Foro Italico, 00135 Roma, Italia. Nope. Elsewhere in Serie A, Lazio and Fiorentina will both try their hand at some expert arm-twisting and attempt to persuade Tottenham captainYounès Kaboul to ditch any far-fetched hopes he has of guiding the club into the Champions League and settle for a nice, easy mid-table life in Italy. And Internazionale want Fabio Borini to scurry around in their attack looking threatening without ever really being threatening by taking him on loan from Liverpool in January.