All the latest football gossip from Friday's papers.
Manchester United are in pole position to sign Michael Owen. (Daily Star)
Chelsea will try to succeed where Manchester United failed and sign Vicente. (Daily Star)
Newcastle have made an improved offer of �6.5m for Scott Parker and promised to keep him on his �55,000-a-week salary. (Daily Mirror)
Graeme Souness has targeted Inter Milan midfielder Emre Belozoglu and Blackburn winger Brett Emerton. (Daily Mirror).
Arsenal and Sweden midfielder Freddie Ljungberg will sign a new deal which will keep him at the club until 2008. (Daily Express)
Birmingham boss Steve Bruce could move for Chelsea midfielder Mateja Kezman. (Daily Express)
Charlton boss Alan Curbishley says he is closing in on "three or four" new players. (Daily Mail)
Spurs have been told by Messina they will have to pay at least �3.5m for Carmine Coppola. (The Daily Telegraph)
Mikael Forsell will quit Chelsea for a �3m move to Birmingham. (The Sun)
Liverpool will make Slovenian side Artmedia suffer if they get the right to defend their Champions League crown. (The Sun)
Britain's bid to field a footabll team at the 2012 Olympics is being scuppered by the Scots. (The Sun)
Malcolm Glazer plans to raise ticket prices at Manchester United by 54% within five years, to boost the club's revenues to �246m by 2010. (The Times)
Celtic manager Gordon Strachan is ready to beat old pal Alex McLeish to long-term Rangers target Kevin Phillips. (Daily Record)
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