1- Abidal very close to Monaco

Former Barcelona man Eric Abidal has passed a medical with Monaco and will join ASM on a season-long deal with an option for a second season. The defender could be announced as the beginning at the week. Source: RMC

2- Dortmund agree deal with Shakhtar for Mkhitaryan

Borussia Dortmund have agreed a fee for Liverpool target Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Source: Sky

3- Napoli to beat Chelsea to Jovetic

Napoli will outbid Chelsea in order to land Stevan Jovetic. The Serie A side will sell Edinson Cavani to PSG and will use the funds to capture the Fiorentina man. Source: Daily Star

4- Real Madrid contact Tottenham for Bale

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has contacted Tottenham supremo Daniel Levy to discuss a possible transfer for Gareth Bale. The English club have so far refused to entertain any of the Spanish club's offers. Source: Cadena Cope

5- PSG to offer Cavani €10m per year

Paris Saint-Germain are willing to offer Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani a five-year contract worth €10 million per year. Source: L'Equipe

6- PSG chase Hernanes

Paris Saint-Germain have made Lazio an offer of €21 million for Brazil international Hernanes, though Lazio won't let the 28-year-old midfielder go for anything less than €30 million. Source: La Gazzetta dello Sport

7- Ba in talks with Anzhi

Chelsea striker Demba Ba is holding talks with Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala. Source: The Times

8- Newcastle to snub QPR's Remy offer

Newcastle United are set to pass up the chance to sign Loic Remy from QPR. The 26-year-old is available for £6.8 million following his side's relegation from the Premier League. Source: Newcastle Evening Chronicle

9- Liverpool cool Atsu interest

Liverpool are not looking to push through a move for Porto winger Christian Atsu. Source: Liverpool Echo

10- Tottenham step up pursuit of Pjanic

Tottenham are set to make a move for Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic for a reported €23 million (£20m). The 23-year-old Bosnian has been linked with a move to the Premier League as well as Barcelona in recent weeks. Source: Daily Mail

11- Pepe tops Manchester City wishlist

Manuel Pellegrini wants to bring Real Madrid defender Pepe from La Liga to Manchester City and has made the 30-year-old would cost around £15 million. Source: The Independent

12- Everton and Tottenham favourites to loan Deulofeu

Everton and Tottenham are leading the race to sign Barcelona prodigy Gerard Deulofeu. The 19-year-old is currently with the Spain U20 squad but would find opportunities limited at Nou Camp. Source: Daily Mail

13- Manchester City will listen to offers for Maicon

Manchester City are willing to let former Inter full-back Maicon leave the club should they receive a sufficient offer. The 31-year-old has slipped to third choice in the pecking order at Etihad Stadium behind Pablo Zabaleta and Micah Richards. Source: Daily Mail

14- Suarez to leave Liverpool and join Chelsea (And the most Ridiculous rumor goes to…)

Luis Suarez, Liverpool's controversial striker, is on the verge of joining Jose Mourinho at Chelsea in a deal worth €40 million (£34m) that would put him on €5.5m (£4.7m) per year. Fernando Torres, though, is expected to remain with the Blues. Source: AS

15- West Ham & Cardiff chase former Malaga star Saviola

West Ham and Cardiff are looking to bring former Malaga striker Javier Saviola to the Premier League. Saviola, 31, is on a free transfer after being released by the Liga outfit. Source: Daily Star

16- Chelsea set to offer Roma €17.5m for De Rossi (Yes, Please!)

Chelsea are ready to increase their bid for Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi by offering the Serie A side €17.5 million (£15m) for the Italy international as Jose Mourinho attempts to rebuild his midfield. Source: Daily Express

17- Gundogan to replace Thiago

Ilkay Gundogan could move to Barcelona from Borussia Dortmund to replace Manchester United target Thiago Alcantara. Source: Sport

18- Osvaldo out, Nani in for Roma

Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini has travelled to England to offload striker Osvaldo, who has interested Liverpool, Man City and Tottenham, and the Serie A club will also hope to do a deal for Man Utd winger Nani. Source: La Gazzetta dello Sport

19- Man City set to land Negredo

Manchester City are close to signing Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo in a €32 million deal. Source: Daily Express

20- Man Utd will not meet Rooney's demands

Manchester United will not rush to offer Wayne Rooney a new contract or issue any statement suggesting that the striker did not request a transfer at the end of last season. Source: The Sun

21- Suarez linked with Arsenal (Ok, I'm not sure which one is more ridiculous now..)

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been linked with a move to Arsenal after bookmarkers received a series of substantial bets in Spain which backed the Uruguay international to move to the Emirates Stadium. Source: The Sun

22- Adebayor refuses to be pushed out of Tottenham

Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor intends to remain at the north London club despite reports suggesting Andre Villas-Boas is keen to move him on. Turkish club Besiktas are known admirers of the 29-year-old. Source: Daily Mirror

23- PSG to bid €100m for Ronaldo

Paris Saint-Germain are readying a €100 million bid for Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo and are prepared to pay him a stunning €20m-per-year to entice him to the French capital. Source: beIN SPORT

24- Crystal Palace want Zaha back on loan

Crystal Palace want to bring Manchester United winger Wilfried Zaha back on loan for their return season in the Premier League, but face competition from West Ham and Fulham. Source: Daily Mirror

Mourinho: Torres form has been 'so-so'

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has described striker Fernando Torres' contribution during his time at Stamford Bridge as "so-so - but not so bad as people sometimes try to say".

The returning Blues boss said Spain international Torres, who joined Chelsea from Liverpool for £50 million in 2011, had not delivered the sort of performances people would have expected of him.

Throughout his time as a Chelsea player, Torres has struggled to replicate the devastating form he showed at Liverpool, even when reunited with former Anfield mentor Rafa Benitez last season.

But although he has been linked with a summer move from west London, he has vowed to stay and fight for a place in Mourinho's side next season.

The coach said he believed owner Roman Abramovich - widely seen to have been the driving force behind the acquisition of Torres - would let him have the final say on the player's future.

"Torres so far is so-so," he said. "Somebody could expect more because of his potential, because of what he did before. But [it is] not so bad as people sometimes try to say. There is a balance."

He also denied that another expensive striker, Andriy Shevchenko, had been imposed on his squad by Abramovich during his previous spell in charge.

"Shevchenko? It's not true the owner forced him on me," he said. "Never, never during my time did the owner interfere in the basic things of the manager - training sessions, team selection, the profile of player I want to bring in.

"Do you want to know the truth about Shevchenko? We wanted to buy Samuel Eto'o. We wanted Eto'o, and the owner was more than ready to do everything to bring him here.

"He was the player I wanted. Why? Because Eto'o was the only player I could play with Didier Drogba, changing the system for two strikers.

"In the end, Barcelona said: 'We don't sell, forget it. Not at any price.' The owner did everything to get him, but it was not possible. After that, we went to other options and got to Shevchenko. I was happy with him."

@Ven

A striker who scores 22 goals in 64 games and eats away 200 K a week isn't one who belongs at Chelsea, Ven. It's just a personal opinion, but I'd back Mourinho completely if he's to offload Torres this summer. :/

It's even less impressive when you consider that his last EPL goal was against Aston Villa in an 8-0 demolishing in December, he averages 0.34 goals a game, and that Michu scored the same amount of goals as Torres in 21 less games (price difference between them is 48.000.000 pounds). :/

Just something to ponder on.

Cavani is going to Paris 100%.

@Dynastian: While he should be offloaded and I dream of this day every time he ruins a game for us, I think it's safe to say he is repaying his 50 million price tag.

1) His Europa League run. 9 games six goals and probably some assists if I bother to research. There is no doubt, without Torres's great run in the Europa League, we would have not got 5 million as prize money.

2) A player's value stretches far off the pitch too.
"First of all a little background knowledge. Chelsea sell around one million shirts per year worldwide, 18.7% of their total shirt sales are 'Torres 9' shirts. Torres’ Chelsea number nine shirt is the third most popular shirt in North America behind only Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney. Globally? Torres is third again.

If Torres sells 18.7% of one million, that equals 187,000 shirts. The average price for a new Chelsea shirt with Torres on the back of it is £53.50. That means we can assume an amount of £10,004,500 for shirt sales just attributed to Torres. He was also the face of Chelsea’s tour to Asia.

Struggles or not, Torres is a marketing machine and with his performances in this year’s Europa League, coupled with the prior success of Chelsea in the Champions League last season, Chelsea project to sell around a quarter of a million Torres shirts in the next 12 months. That number would be £13,375,000. In case you were wondering.

Right here we have £23,379,500 in revenue (albeit next year's projected figures) produced by a man who cost Chelsea a fee of £50,000,000."

3) "Without Torres’ goals, Chelsea would be fifth in the Premier League with 68 points, at the mercy of Arsenal’s last game of the season. Chelsea would have been eliminated in the fourth round of the FA Cup by Brentford and would’ve been out in the third round of the Europa League by Steaua Bucharesti."

Despite his goal drought that if I quote you, started "in December", Torres was doing great before Ba joined. He felt no need for pressure as there was no competition in his position and was finally the spearhead of Chelsea. That's why he was so great in the Europa League too. He had no competition there so all the pressure was gone and he could score once again.

£40,116,471 is the amount we got this year if you include Torres's goals and his shirt sale.

£24,022,379 is the amount we would have got with Torres in the team.

4) He is improving. We all know the old Torres will never return. What we do know from the last season and the season before that is that he constantly improving. Chelsea are a financially stable club with an owner who can afford to pay a player 175,000 pounds a week and keeping Torres can help both on and off the pitch this season.

Look @V, I feel obliged to say that you are stretching logic far too thin in your defense of Torres. I'll just say that it's not his fault he cost £50m, but you will not convince me that he has been anything but a disappointment.

PS - "After that, we went to other options and got to Shevchenko. I was happy with him." - LOL. That quote just made my day.

LOL @Foota I think he said that out of politeness towards Sheva though & his relation with Roman Abramovich :))

@Footaholic: I do understand Torres is a huge disappointment is a flop. I agree with you on that part. What I can't agree with you (or anyone) is he was a complete disappointment.

Why would City ever want Pepe, do they want do die or something?