The jungle drums are building their rhythm up to a potentially amazing deal that will see John Terry join Manchester City from Chelsea. Forget Michael Owen, this would be the sensation of the summer (in England). Some rumours building out in cyberspace, none of them attributable, and we should take Chelsea's avowed intent to keep their captain as gospel until we know something else.

The Guardian ran a line on Saturday that Chelsea were insulted by a mere £30m and want £50m and this is followed by the intriguing news that Terry pulled out of a testimonial game at Yeovil, former employers of brother Paul. The other talk is that City are prepared to pay him £300,000 a week, money to make even Cristiano Ronaldo wince. JT meanwhile is staying in Tenerife rather than heading to Cobham to greet new boss Carlo Ancelotti.

Elsewhere, Real Madrid president has intimated that he wants to sign both Xabi Alonso and Franck Ribery but neither's club want to sell. Not that he's been stopped before by such resistance. These are the two more players he wants while he also wants to get rid of another ten...while signing just one defender in Raul Albiol.

On the chopping block at the Bernabeu are Ruud van Nistelrooy, Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Royston Drenthe and Klaas Jan Huntelaar. There's a theme there somewhere...

Gunners target Melo, last seen in the yellow of Brazil, has joined Juventus according to reports. Though not those coming from club Fiorentina who say that their midfielder is staying.

Manchester United have money to spend after signing Magic Mike Owen and some of it may have been spent on a sixteen-year-old, Empoli full-back Alberto Massacci who says he has spoken on the phone to Sir Alex for "an hour". Either his English is good and his parents have a full box-set of "Taggart" or the Govan-or has linguistic skills we didn't know of.

Over in Italy, Milan want either Luis Fabiano or the aforementioned Huntelaar. Strikers are in short supply theses days, hence the silly money for Benzema, Ibrahimovic and the risk taken on Mickey O. The window has nearly two months to go but it's steaming up by the hour....