Football transfer rumours: Gonzalo Higuaín to Manchester City?

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<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.24.1.1/33229?ns=guardian&pageName=Football+transfer+rumours%3A+Gonzalo+Higuain+to+Manchester+City%3F%3AArticle%3A1781596&ch=Football&c3=GU.co.uk&c4=Football%2CSport%2CTransfer+window+%28football%29&c5=Premier+League&c6=John+Ashdown&c7=12-Aug-01&c8=1781596&c9=Article&c10=Feature&c11=Football&c13=Rumour+Mill+%28series%29&c25=&c30=content&c42=Sport&h2=GU%2FSport%2FFootball%2FTransfer+window" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">Today's nonsense <em>loves </em>pretzels</p><p>It's a little-known fact that during the Cold War, if it had all Kicked Off Big Style, then one of the measuring sticks by which the prime minister and his war cabinet, safely ensconced in their bunker in the Cotswolds, would use to work out whether civilisation had broken down would've been to tune into Radio Four to see if the Today programme was being transmitted. The idea being that if John Humphries and co were still on the airwaves, then the country couldn't be at the <strong>slurping-each-others-brains-with-a-straw stage </strong>just yet.</p><p></p><p>We like to imagine the Mill is used in the same way. So, despite a lack of tittle-tattle last seen in the Great Rumour Famine of 1983 and the presence of a sporting event so colossal and all-overshadowing that it has it's own gravity and several moons, this purveyor of cheap transfer tat is still open for business. Rest assured everybody – civilisation has not collapsed, the sky is still blue, grass is still green, and Santi Cazorla's will-he-won't-he move to Arsenal is still hanging in the balance.</p><p></p><p>Newcastle are set to sign teenage <strong>Australian defender Curtis Good</strong> from Melbourne Heart. Moves for Brisbane Appendix's Steve Poor, Adelaide Liver's Bobby Average and Sydney Kidney's Roger Excellentiftemperamental are still in the pipeline</p><p></p><p>In tittle-tattle so monumental it deserves it's own paragraph, even if it's a paragraph constructed of only one sentence, split up with a couple of commas just to keep stringing it out, <strong>Manchester City are willing to spend £35m on Gonzalo Higuaín.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Manchester United and Arsenal are watching Celtic's Victor Wanyama</strong> with the sort of concentrated interest that owls reserve for particularly plump voles.</p><p></p><p>Tottenham are umming and aahing about a <strong>£7.5m bid for Liverpool's Raheem Sterling</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Barcelona want <strong>Arsenal midfield dandy Alex Song</strong> to add some … thing to their tiki-taki-ing ways.</p><p></p><p>Chelsea's <strong>Gael Kakuta is heading to Lyon on loan. Or possibly Marseille</strong>. On loan. And Kevin De Bruyne will be doing likewise in the general direction of the Bundesliga and the specific direction of Werder Bremen.</p><p></p><p>In a piece of speculation that lends itself so nicely to a tabloid headline – Ewood Park! – that you suspect it was dreamt up merely for that end, <strong>Blackburn want to borrow Arsenal's Park Chu-young</strong> for the season.</p><p></p><p>James Collins is to rejoin West Ham for £2.5m. <strong>Stoke are having a giraffe</strong> with a £2m bid for Wolves' Michael Kightly. In a searing indictment of Scottish football, <strong>Norwich's James Vaughan will turn down Celtic</strong> in favour of Blackburn. And former Everton midfielder Manuel Fernandes is a £7million target for Liverpool.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/transfer-window">Transfer window</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnashdown">John Ashdown</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> &copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://guardian.co.uk.feedsportal.com/c/34708/f/639039/s/21ec69ca/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139262783844/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/21ec69ca/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139262783844/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/21ec69ca/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/139262783844/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/21ec69ca/a2t.img" border="0"/>
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