Bold words indeed from Birmingham manager Alex McLeish. He's compared Wayne Rooney to Zinedine Zidane and Michel Platini. Clearly he was impressed yesterday.

McLeish said in The Sun: "He is a huge talent and a natural footballer. You get the Zidanes and Platinis of this world and I've seen them over the years and it's just natural."

Spurs manager Harry Redknapp must be wondering if his team are really good, or if Liverpool are not as good as they used to be. Good old 'Arry was a little surprised that he beat Liverpool so easily.

He said in The Sun: "Last season we beat Liverpool 2-1 here but they absolutely destroyed us. How we won that game I have no idea. We were battered. It was a totally different story this time around, though, and we could easily have been two-up by half-time."

Rafa, unsurprisingly, was not happy and, oh yes, he's had a bit of a rant. Good old Benitez thinks his team was robbed at White Hart Lane, even though they were rubbish.

He said in the Daily Star: He said: “Everybody could see it was especially a penalty on Voronin. It was so clear. Unbelievable. With this referee, I knew another one was impossible.

“But we had a meeting the other day and we were told we can’t talk about the referee.”

The Sun, meanwhile, links Liverpool with a £10m bid for central defender Fernando Amorebieta of Athletic Bilbao. We think they should look further forward.

Just hours after David James admitted the players fear financial meltdown at Portsmouth, the talk is that Soulaiman Al Fahim's takeover will collapse leaving the club in limbo. The Daily Mirror thinks he hasn't got the cash.

It could all get a bit messy at Upton Park with talk of the club having to sell its best players to balance the books. This, apparently, has angered Gianfranco Zola and the Daily Mirror thinks the boss will walk if the board sells its best players without his permission.

Carlton Cole, Mark Noble, Matthew Upson, Robert Green and Scott Parker are all said to be up for grabs.

The Daily Mirror also quotes the little Italian as saying he does not want to sell Upson.

West Ham fans are probably a little miffed to hear that defender James Collins, who played so well at the end of last season, is up for sale. But, according to The Sun, he will this week join Stoke for £5m.

Stoke are also, for some reason, said to be interested in Middlesbrough crock Robert Huth but, according to the Daily Mirror, they've been told they must pay more than an initial bid of £2.5m.

More transfer talk from the Daily Mail. The paper says that Tottenham are interested in Man City's Martin Petrov and Sunderland's Kieran Richardson. However, he must sell to buy.

And finally, our favourite story of the morning comes from the Daily Mirror. Burnley owner Brendan Flood has revealed that a celebrity Burnley fan is none other than Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi - and looked at investing in the club!