HOT FOOTBALL GOSSIP: Manchester United and PSG ‘fight for Ronaldo’ while Spurs chase 17-year-old Serb

Cristiano Ronaldo is “seeking a new challenge” and Manchester United are prepared to pay £90m to bring him back to Old Trafford, reports the Daily Mirror but PSG want him too

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And so it begins. Cristiano Ronaldo is “seeking a new challenge” and Manchester United are prepared to pay £90m to bring him back to Old Trafford, reports the Daily Mirror. It’s currently 22 September 2015, and there is no suggestion this transfer will happen anytime before May 2016. So sit back, put the kettle on, stock up on crisps and enjoy what promises to be this season’s biggest, and longest, Hot Football Transfer Gossip hit.

It has all the ingredients you’d expect from a blockbuster drama. The leading man is obviously Cristiano, 31 in February but showing no signs of slowing down. Louis van Gaal is the tough guy hopelessly in love with him. And then lurking in the background you have the baddies: Paris Saint-Germain - more money than sense and obsessed with European domination.

Already warming to this theme, the Mirror claims United are ready to go “toe-to-toe” with PSG to land their former forward. But the tabloid also suggests that Ronaldo “would favour” a move to the French side, although it doesn’t say how it knows this. We’ll park this one for now, because we’ve got at least another eight months to discuss it.At the other end of the budget scale, United are also being linked with a player whose name at least is worthy of movie stardom: Heerenveen’s 19-year defender Jerry St Juste. The Mail claims Old Trafford scouts noticed the promising teenager while “doing their homework” on PSV ahead of the sides’ Champions League meeting.

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Jerry St. Juste Heerenveen is a wanted man

Going even younger are Tottenham, who the Mail says are targeting a 17-year-old Serbian striker named Luka Jovic. If that prospect doesn’t get you especially excited, you may change your mind when you learn that the Red Star Belgrade frontman is “tipped to be the next Radamel Falcao”.

And they mean Good Falcao, not the dodgy one we’ve seen in England. With that pedigree, it’s not surprising that Spurs apparently face competition from Arsenal, Chelsea, Ajax and Benfica.

Sticking with the teens, Spurs have also been sniffing around Man City’s 18-year-old Nigerian supersub Kelechi Iheanacho, says the Manchester Evening News.

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has claimed that Zlatan Ibrahimovic wanted to join the Rossoneri in the summer, but that he ended up signing Mario Balotelli instead. Hate it when that happens.