According to John Edwards at the Daily Mail, Stoke City are leading the way for Cardiff City midfielder Joe Ledley. Stoke City are planning a third bid after having a bid turned down in the summer and in January.

Ledley’s contract ends in the summer of 2010 and he has supposedly rejected new contract offers from Cardiff.

According to Neil Custis at The Sun, Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez is drawing interest from Liverpool and he would not mind playing for them. Liverpool have supposedly contacted Tevez’s owner Kia Joorabchian.

According to Football Spy at the Daily Mirror, Bolton want £20 million for centre-half Gary Cahill, who has been linked with Arsenal. Bolton boss Gary Megson said,

“I can understand why the big clubs are interested in Gary, but it’s going to take an offer over and above what we received for Nicolas Anelka from Chelsea.”

According to Mirror Sport at the Daily Mirror, several players that Arsenal can sign to “lift the gloom” are,

Matthew Upson (West Ham United), Brede Hangeland (Fulham), Xabi Alonso (Liverpool), Miguel Veloso (Sporting Lisbon), Roque Santa Cruz (Blackburn), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit St Petersburg)

According to the Spanish paper El Pais, Manchester United and Real Madrid have an agreement over Cristiano Ronaldo for £71.5million. The deal could swell to as much as £89 million.

According to Martin Lipton at the Daily Mirror, Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho is preparing to offer £15 million for Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel. However Chelsea may be reluctant to sell him.

According to Sky Sports, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has dismissed the rumor that he has had talks with Marseille striker Djibril Cisse. Cisse is currently on loan at Sunderland. Redknapp said,

“No, we haven’t made any enquiries for anybody at the moment.”

“If we can’t get the players we want then it’s not a desperate situation because we have lots of good players at the club.”

According to Jonny Abrams at Sport.co.uk, Miguel Veloso is drawing interest from three Premier League teams. His agent Paulo Barbosa said,

“We are in talks with three different clubs in England and we hope to reach an agreement by the end of May … It will be easier to tell next week.”

Bolton, Aston Villa, and Everton have all been linked with Veloso before.

According to ESPN Soccernet, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will not be making any major signing this summer. Wenger told L’Equipe,

“We have a team which is 22 years old (on average), why should we look for revolution? … That would be stupid and not responsible.”

“I still believe that when you have responsibilities, you have to make decisions and stand up for that. Until now we have not done too badly … I do not think that the team needs major investments.”

According to Martin Spinks at The Sentinel, Stoke City have not had any discussions about a new deal with current manager Tony Pulis. Pulis was quoted as saying,

“I haven’t sat down with [chairman] Peter [Coates] to talk fully about next season, never mind talk about any three-year contract … I’m on a rolling contract as things stand and I’m quite happy with that arrangement. It suits me and seems to suit Peter. that way.”

According to Peter O’Rourke at Sky Sports, striker Nicholas Anelka will not be leaving Chelsea. His agent Doug Pingisi was quoted as saying,

“Nicolas will not move from Chelsea, everything is okay there … Nicolas has two more years on his contract and he is happy at Chelsea.”

“I have spoken to everybody at Chelsea and they are happy with him so he will be staying.”