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Posted by Dale Johnson on 08/14/2009

Yes! It's the story all Newcastle fans have been waiting for! Mike Ashley is leav.... nope, not that.... Joe Kinnear is coming back to manage the club.

Following all the rumours about David O'Leary taking charge, the Daily Express today runs an EXCLUSIVE that JFK will be back in his swivel chair on Monday morning.

All Magpies dreams have come true.

Fernando Torres is talking big as the new season is upon us. He's claiming that Liverpool have absolutely no problem beating their top four rivals, and is more concerned by Tottenham.

"We have no problem beating Manchester United or Chelsea but it is games like Sunday's at Tottenham where we need to show our real title intentions," he said in The Sun.

"Tottenham is not an easy place to go but these are games we must be winning if this is to finally be our year."

Today's Manchester City/Joleon Lescott update comes from the Daily Mirror. That paper says that City have brought in negotiators Kia Joorabchian and Pini Zahavi to make sure the deal goes through. It all sounds so lovely.

And with Everton linked with an £8m bid for Newcastle's Steven Taylor in the Daily Star, it could be that they are moving in for a replacement.

Everton have pulled out of the race for Arsenal's Philippe Senderos, according to the Daily Mail, with Sunderland ready to step in.

Nice words from David Dunn in the Daily Star ahead of Blackburn's date with City.

The midfielder said: “It’s important we do our best and kick lumps out of them – fairly of course."

Man United boss Sir Alex Ferguson may have said he will not spend again this summer, but that hasn't stopped the press linking him with players. Today it is Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero.

The Sun thinks scouts have been watching the £30m-rated forward. Well, so have we.

The Indepedent runs a story about United picking up another young kid from the continent. The paper claims that there will be an official complaint to UEFA from the Serie A club Fiorentina over United's move for national Under-16 captain Michele Fornasier.

It may be bold, it may be deluded, but Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger thinks his little kids can, against all the odds, win the Premier League. And that's why he snubbed the chance to manage Real Madrid.

"To talk of winning the League is an audacious statement but I built this team and I want to deliver with this team," he said in The Sun. "At 22 or 23 a team is mature enough to deliver."

Arsenal have been linked with Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh all summer, but now the Daily Mail thinks West Ham are ready to come in and steal him - all because they will offer the French club half of any future transfer fee.

It seems like Joey Barton may be proving his true worth to Newcastle once again. The Sun has quotes from their usual "insider" claiming that the bad boy has slammed goalkeeper Steve Harper for, well, being rubbish.

A source said: "Barton told Steve in front of the other lads that he was making it easy for opponents by staying on his line and that they knew it was his weakness.

"It did not go down well. He acts like a goalkeeping coach telling Harps how to do his job. In training, he has also been walking round asking 'Which one of you is getting dropped so I play this weekend'?"

What a nice lad.

On Thursday we heard than an unnamed club had bid £4m for Newcastle United's Damien Duff, well The Sun claims that the club in question is Fulham. The Independent says Everton have bid too.

And Blackburn are desperate to sign former Real Madrid player Michel Salgado, but the Daily Mirror says there is a row about cash at Ewood Park.

Tuncay has been linked with many clubs this summer, but the Daily Mirror says he wants to move back to Turkey with Fenerbahce. But he will only sign for them on loan to avoid doing national service!

Good news for Birmingham fans! Manager Alex McLeish has said in the Daily Mirror that they are not good enough to stay up.

“To be honest, we are not equipped for the Premier League as things stand now,” he confessed.

The Daily Mail reports that Wigan still plan to sign Mohamed Diame from Rayo Vallecano - even though he has a heart defect which was picked up in his medical.

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