Football transfer rumours: Aleksandar Dragovic to Manchester United?

00:32, 27 January 2015

LONDON. KAZINFORM - After the surreality of the weekend's FA Cup action, it seems weirdly fitting that tonight's draw for the last 16 will take place on the strangely entertaining but often downright weird BBC television programme that is The One Show, with warmly grinning hosts Matt Baker and Alex Jones poised to invite Gary Lineker and the Football Association tombola into their eclectic domain of ... whatever. Whether or not the national broadcaster's bearded face of football will be joined by Donny Osmond, an elderly Tarot card reader from Cheltenham and consumer champion Matt Allwright blowing the lid off a possible timeshare scam in the Outer Hebrides remains to be seen, but the Rumour Mill will certainly be tuning in to find out.

But before all that there's work to be done, with no shortage of potentially baseless speculation to report on the penultimate Monday of the transfer window. Having almost certainly failed in their bid to bring Gabriel Paulista to Old Trafford, Manchester United appear to have fended off interest from Liverpool, West Ham, Zenit St Petersburg, Roma and Juventus in their quest to sign Austria skipper Aleksandar Dragovic. Dynamo Kiev are rumoured to have accepted a bid of £15m for a central defender who once cited his ambition "to retrace the steps and the career of my model Nemanja Vidic". Here's hoping he has a happier time of it when he eventually moves on to Inter.

The hubbub of chatter concerning a potential move to Manchester United for Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale refuses to subside, with the Express saying the club will insist on getting the Welshman as part of a player-plus-cash deal in the event of United goalkeeper David de Gea deciding his future lies at the Bernabéu.

Tough-tackling midfield enforcer Sergio Busquets is another player United fancy getting on board, while Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea are also keen on securing the services of the 26-year-old, who may well stay at Camp Nou if his current contract talks go according to plan, Kazinform has learnt from the Guardian.

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