The top stories from papers and websites - 17 July 2012

• Chelsea will have to pay £60m to land Napoli striker Edinson Cavani and Brazilian playmaker Oscar.


• Robin van Persie has returned to Arsenal insisting he still wants to quit the club.


• Alan Shearer has told Andy Carroll to quit Liverpool if they don't want him anymore.


• Steven Pienaar is set to become an Everton player once again this week when he completes a £2.5m switch from Tottenham.


• QPR bad-boy Joey Barton is wanted by Sheffield Wednesday on loan.


• Holland defender Ron Vlaar, 27, has told his club Feyenoord that he wants to join Aston Villa.


• Liverpool will try to recoup £20million when they offload Andy Carroll.


• Tottenham target Emmanuel Adebayor will return to training with Manchester City today still unsure about his future, as his proposed move to White Hart Lane has still not been resolved.

• West Ham have made a move for Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov.


• Andy Carroll wants to leave Liverpool and rejoin former club Newcastle.


• QPR will make a renewed bid for Inter Milan striker Luc Castaignos.


• Arsenal are tracking Schalke midfielder Lewis Holtby.


• Reading have offered £4m for Spurs full-back Kyle Naughton.


• Blackburn are set to make a £3.5m for QPR striker Jamie Mackie.

• Napoli striker Edinson Cavani wants £150,000 a week to join Chelsea.


• Former England boss Glenn Hoddle and current Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson are set to battle it out for the Nottingham Forest job after Mick McCarthy ruled himself out.


• West Brom aim to tie-up a deal for out-of-contract Argentina midfielder Claudio Yacob, but have cooled their interest in 22-year-old Rennes midfielder Tongo Doumbia.


• Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is eyeing Olympiacos ace Kevin Mirallas. The 24-year-old can play either out wide or up front, and is keen on a move to Anfield.


• West Ham and Cardiff are chasing midfielder Akos Buzsaky, 30, after his release by QPR.

• Fabio Capello will be paid £7.8m a year after agreeing to become the new manager of Russia.


• Manchester United's pursuit of Lucas Moura hit another financial snag when it emerged that Sao Paulo's asking price could soon increase to £34m.


• Blackburn are hopeful of completing a £2.5m deal for West Brom striker Simon Cox.


• Spurs are considering a move for Malaga striker Jose Salomon Rondon.


• Norwich have a made a bid for £5m-rated Leeds midfielders Robert Snodgrass and are also interested in Hearts defender Andy Webster and Everton's Joseph Yobo.


• Swansea have made a £1.7m bid for Rayo Vallecano's Michu, who scored 15 goals last season.


• Chelsea youngster Josh McEachran will hold talks with Di Matteo this week to discover whether he has a place in first-team plans at Stamford Bridge this season.

• Chelsea will have further talks with Napoli striker Edinson Cavani's agents over a £35million move later this week - but the Uruguayan's wage demands are holding up the deal.


• Liverpool will seek to recoup £20million for Andy Carroll, leaving Newcastle in no doubt they will have to increase their initial offer if they want to take the striker back to Tyneside.


• Glenn Hoddle and Darren Ferguson are set to battle it out for the Nottingham Forest job after Mick McCarthy ruled himself out.


• Theo Walcott is set to hold further talks with the Arsenal hierarchy this week in a move to determine whether he is the latest player on the brink of an exit from the club.


• Everton hope to tie up a deal for Steven Pienaar this week.


• West Brom aim to tie up a deal for Argentine midfielder Claudio Yacob.


• Wolves are on the verge of signing Real Sociedad defender Vadim Demidov.


• New Watford manager Gianfranco Zola is making a move to lure Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini to Vicarage Road.


• Luka Modric inched closer to his dream move to Real Madrid after the Spanish club agreed to pay Tottenham an initial £27.5million.

• Real Madrid believe they are the only club that Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric, 26, wants to join this summer, and the president, Florentino Pérez, has told friends he is supremely confident of closing the deal.


• Robin van Persie has had his first face-to-face encounter with Arsene Wenger since declaring that he would not sign a new contract at Arsenal when he reported as scheduled for the first day of his pre-season training.

• The negotiations over Robin van Persie's future have been complicated by the Dutch striker having indicated to Arsenal that his first choice of the three clubs pursuing him is Juventus.

• Charles Green will visit Hampden in the next 48 hours in a desperate bid to seal a deal with the SFA that will allow Rangers to play football next season.

• Arsenal are still trying to strengthen their squad and yesterday made a £9million bid for Corinthians goalscoring midfielder Paulinho.

• Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku is closing in on a loan move to Fulham.


• Bayer Leverkusen director Wolfgang Holzhauser has insisted that Germany international Andre Schurrle is not for sale after rejecting an improved bid from Chelsea.


• Swindon Town interim chairman Jeremy Wray has denied his club are close to signing Socceroos forward Harry Kewell.