According to Football Spy at the Daily Mirror, along with Giovanny Espinoza, Birmingham is going after Cardiff’s Roger Johnson and Coventry’s Scott Dann.

According to The Shields Gazzette, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce is interested in Newcastle defender Sebastien Bassong.

However it is believed that Bruce is going after Rosenborg midfielder Per Ciljan Skjelbred first.

According to Vasek Kadlec at Sky Sports News, Spartak Moscow footballer Radoslav Kovac, who joined West Ham United on loan in January, has received offers from other clubs in other countries but might still sign with West Ham. It was rumored that he would be leaving the club but Kovac told deniksport.cz,

“Let’s not make conclusions yet.”

Kovac’s agent Pavel Zika recently said,

“Radek’s loan spell at West Ham is to expire at the end of June and, should the two sides fail to reach an agreement, he will start pre-season training with Spartak Moscow on 1st July.”

UPDATE: According to Andy Walker at the Birmingham Post, Birmingham is looking to sign another South American player, which seems to be Giovanny Espinoza. Co-owner David Sullivan said,

“We’re hoping to sign a few more players from South America in the next two to three weeks. We’ve worked harder in the last three weeks than we’ve worked at anything … People don’t know what is going on behind the scenes, this has been going on 18 hours a day for about ten days.”

“Myself and Karren Brady in particular have worked on this (the Benitez) deal and we’re working on about another ten or 15 other deals. We won’t get them all, we know that but we hope to land three or four of them.”

June 4th, 2009 According to James Nursey at the Daily Mirror, Birmingham are interested in Barcelona Sporting Club defender Giovanny Espinoza.

According to Football Spy at the Daily Mirror, Swansea coach Roberto Martinez will look to sign Swansea defender Angel Rangel if Martinez becomes to new manager of Wigan Athletic.