Manchester City have got their summer spending into full swing, with the club looking to finalise the £15m transfer of Roque Santa Cruz in the next day or so (he is in for a medical right now) as well as dot the i's and cross the t's on the new £25.5m contract with Carlos Tevez.
Chelsea seem to be missing out on big player after big player, with a late bid for Kaka turned dwon, and Tevez now opting to stay in Manchester. Ricardo Carvalho and deco have already said that they wantto join Mourinho at Inter Milan, and another of Chelsea's key men from last season, Didier Drogba, has reportedly been on the phone to Jose too. Things aren't looking so rosy at Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal completed the £10m signing of intelligent Ajax captain Thomas Vermaelen. The talented centre-back should shore up the centre of the pitch for Arsenal, behind Cesc Fabregas, and is another canny purchase by Arsene Wenger.
Manchester United, having lost both Tevez and Ronaldo, are set to splurgetheircash on Karim Benzema and Luis Valencia, with Brazilian wonderkid Douglas Costa thrown in for good measure. Zoran Tosic, the Serbian brought in to play on the wing in January, has revealed that they all knew Ronaldo would be leaving this summer - even before the Champions League Final loss to Barcelona. Tosic hopes to stake his claim for the vacancy in the pre-season.
Liverpool's woes off-the-field, with the Americans Gillett and Hicks, seem to have taken a turn for the better, with Gllett selling his stake in his NHL team.
