Another day, another raft of almost entirely unsubstantiated rumours linking Manchester City to some of the most expensive players in the world.

Thursday sees the Eastlands club consigning Kaka to the dustbin of broken dreams and turning their attention to Theirry Henry and Didier Drogba, according to, well, everyone: The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent...

You never know, perhaps City will next be linked with an audacious move for Barrack Obama.

If The Guardian are to be believed City have already been rebuffed by David Villa, Gianluigi Buffon, Kaka, and Henry, but they just don’t know when to give up and are back in for the Barcelona striker.

The Independent reckon that Henry is tempted by feathering his nest with City’s riches, but feels he has unfinished business in the Catalan capital; which probably means the Champions League, which Barca are still in and City are light years from. Perhaps the summer transfer window will see a Premier League return for Henry.

Perhaps more likely, albeit only fractionally, is the Daily Star’s suggestion that Chelsea are plotting a “sensational” swap deal which will see Luis Felipe Scolari offload Drogba and send him packing to Man City and replace him with Robinho.

The Daily Mail are on the story too, but they reckon a deal for the seemingly out-of-favour Drogba will be a straight cash deal and have told Chelsea to name their price.

After being left out by Scolari for two consecutive squads, and having been slammed after his lacklustre showing at Old Trafford, Drogba has begun fluttering his eyelids at prospective clubs and on Wednesday even sent a not-very-coded message to his old club, Marseille expressing his “love” for all things OM.

But it’s not all one-way traffic for Man City, apparently, according to The Sun, Wigan and Bolton are sniffing around Micah Richards and could be preparing bids of around £5m for the England prospect.

Although his development has stalled this season, is there any logical reason why Richards would be prepared to swap the well-funded Eastlands circus for either Bolton or Wigan?

And just in case you’re not sick of City, there's more: Despite the fact that Joe Hart is perfectly acceptable and a very promising young keeper, City are also hoping to land shot-stopping superstar Shay Given, the only problem is Newcastle have told City they won’t take a penny less than £14m.

Elsewhere Arsenal’s excruciatingly drawn out chase for Andrei Arshavin could result in Arsene Wenger spitting out his dummy and joining Real Madrid in the summer. Maybe.

With The Daily Mail reporting that talks between Zenit and the Gunners have stalled, that could given more bargaining power to Real presidential candidate Florentino Perez, who according to The Mirror is ready to give Wenger a twin role as coach and general manager at the Bernebeu.

Back on planet Earth one deal that might actually happen is Blackburn’s reported interest in Barca striker Eidur Gudjohnsen. The Sun say a £2m offer could reunite the former Bolton striker with his former Bolton manager, Sam Allardyce.

After Spurs scraped into the Carling Cup final with 6-4 aggregate win over Burnley Harry Redknapp spoke of the weakness in his squad, but he won’t be strengthening the goalkeeping position with Chelsea’s Carlo Cudicini after Scolari said the Italian would be going nowhere until the summer at least, according to The Guardian.

And finally, The Sun, citing Italian newspapers, report that Juventus could be lining up a bid for Liverpool’s Dirk Kuyt.