The Mirror: United Have No Chance Of Signing Rodwell

The Telegraph: Moyes Rodwell Staying At Everton

Yahoo Sports: Rodwell Isn't Going Anywhere

But what did David Moyes actually say?

"Of course Jack is a talented young player who is English and already established in the Premier League at a top-six club, so there is bound to be interest from other clubs," Moyes said.

Former Manchester United goalkeeping coach, Tony Coton, has revealed that Tom Heaton is looking for a move away from the club this January, ahead of his contract running out in the summer.

The 23-year-old knows he won't be getting the opportunity any time soon at United so is hoping one of the clubs interested in him comes in with a formal offer.

Danny Simpson left Manchester United under a bit of a cloud after mistakes in his personal life saw Sir Alex Ferguson ship him out to Blackburn Rovers. The move was supposed to be as a favour to Paul Ince but Danny struggled to get in the team and the move became a bit of a waste of time.

Simpson is enjoying himself a lot more at Newcastle though and reckons he would sign for them if he was asked in January or at the end of the season.

"I would like to do business, but only if the prices are right and that can be a problem in January," Ferguson said today.

We have been 'warned off' Carlton Cole after reports in the papers reckoned we were ready to part with £20m for the Chelsea reject. Don't get me wrong, he's doing a good job for West Ham this season but Darren Bent is having a better time at Sunderland.

Rio to Spurs
With Rio Ferdinand suffering from poor form and repeated injuries, the papers have pencilled Harry Redknapp in for trying to sign our defender in the summer. Rio seems to be gravitating towards the London lifestyle again and next summer United might be looking to get back some of the £30m they paid out for him eight years previously.

In the summer, Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin tipped us off to Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, with Edwin Van der Sar not getting any younger and Ben Foster battling injury.

Ahead of our match against Akinfeev's team, CSKA Moscow, Sir Alex Ferguson was asked whether he was interested in signing the keeper.

After Chelsea had been slapped with a ban from the transfer window, news broke that Manchester United could be in for the same punishment after French club Le Havre claimed we had unlawfully gained the signature of youngster Paul Pogba. United claimed time and again that we had done nothing wrong and there was no problem with the deal, much to Le Havre president Jean-Pierre Louvel's frustration.

Paul Pogba's agent and mother, as well as FIFA, have spoken out about the recent claims made by Le Havre about our supposed tapping up.

FIFA
"So far, no contractual claim against the player Paul Pogba and/or the club Manchester United has been lodged by the French club, Le Havre, at Fifa.

Sir Alex Ferguson insists we have nothing to worry about where the stories of tapping up are concerned

"There has been a lot of jumping on the bandwagon of course but I can assure you that Manchester United have behaved absolutely correctly in all their dealings with young players and their parents," said Ferguson.

David Gill has let rip on Le Havre who have claimed we tapped up Paul Pogba.

"It is an insult by Le Havre to suggest that Manchester United and the employees of Manchester United have paid the players' parents and bought the parents a house," said Gill. "We will not accept the good name of Manchester United being trawled around on websites and the press to say that we have done these things which we are not allowed to do and we would never do.

Manchester United have today responded to Le Havre's claims that we have tapped up Paul Pogba.

"In response to the wholly unfounded comments widely reported in the media of Le Havre AC President, Jean-Pierre Louvel, Manchester United wish to categorically confirm that as a matter of club policy and in accordance with the applicable football regulations, we do not offer inducements to the parents of players who sign for the club such as monetary payments or the purchase of houses," said United in a statement.

At the beginning of August, news broke that Manchester United had beaten Arsenal to the signing of Le Havre youngster, Paul Pogba. At the time, their chairman Jean-Pierre Louvel accused United of being "impolite" and claimed "in the best case scenario we will only get some €110,000 to €120,000.

The Sun today has an 'exclusive' which claims Rio Ferdinand is thinking about a move to Barcelona or Real Madrid.

"Rio can see the sense of it," said 'a source'. "Not only would it be a fresh challenge as he nears the end of his career, it would also fit all his projects off the pitch.

Catania general manager, Pietro Lo Monaco, claims that Sir Alex Ferguson is interested in their 21-year-old striker, Takayuki Morimoto. Catania are a small club in Italy, finishing sixth from bottom in Serie A last season, which leads Lo Monaco to believe they have no chance of holding on to the young star.

With a week until the transfer window closes, some fairly bizarre rumours have been doing the rounds.

First, it was claimed that Michael Carrick was on his way back to Tottenham Hotspur with Luka Modric coming in the other direction. The Spurs fans seemed to fancy it but could see that it was tabloid nonsense, originated from the fact Carrick had been rotated and Harry Redknapp confessed Ferguson was a fan of Modric.

Tom Cleverley has revealed that chats with Sir Alex Ferguson and Ben Foster which convinced him to take up the Watford loan offer.

"Sir Alex said Malky Mackay is a good man and good to play for," said Cleverley. "He said it is a good club with good facilities – the training ground and stadium – and good fans, so Sir Alex definitely made Watford look inviting to me.

Danny Simpson has been loaned out to Newcastle after spending last season on loan at Blackburn and Ipswich. Whilst he's a player we all want to do well, given that he's a Salford lad, last season seemed to confirm his fate. He couldn't even get in the Blackburn team so what future could he have with us?

Danny Simpson has been loaned out to Newcastle after spending last season on loan at Blackburn and Ipswich. Whilst he's a player we all want to do well, given that he's a Salford lad, last season seemed to confirm his fate. He couldn't even get in the Blackburn team so what future could he have with us?

Manchester United have been linked with Schalke's 23-year-old goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. Schalke boss Felix Magath has claimed he's had nothing concrete from United in regards to the young keeper, who has already broken in to the German international set-up.

"I have heard Manchester United would be interested in signing Manuel Neuer," he said.

Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that Manchester United offered £30m to sign Karim Benzema before he opted to join Real Madrid, as well as contacting Bayern Munich in regards to Franck Ribery back in March.

"We tried for Benzema because, at 21, I felt there would be an improvement there," said Ferguson.

Goodbye Manucho, welcome Diouf.

Manucho, who spent half of last season on loan to Hull, is moving to Spanish side Real Valladolid. Best of luck to him.

We have brought Senegalese striker Mame Biram Diouf in his place, who has an impressive scoring record for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's former team Molde.

No reason was given at first for Nemanja Vidic's absence from the group of players travelling to Kuala Lumpur for the pre-season tour today, leading to whispers that he could be leaving.

Antonio Valencia, Federico Macheda, Fabio da Silva and Danny Welbeck will also miss out.

It is believed that an ankle injury has lead to Vidic being ruled out and his agent, Paulo Fabbri, insists our defender is not moving clubs.

Richard Eckersley agreed to join Burnley this afternoon in a bid to get more first team football. The Salford lad had been with the club since he was nine so conceded it was a hard decision to make but leaving was something he felt he had to do.

"It's been a hectic week, but also a very fantastic one," said Eckersley.

Richard Eckersley has joined Burnley on a four year deal. The 20-year-old defender rejected a contract from Manchester United, fancying his chances of getting in the newly promoted Burnley's team next season.

The Salford lad is the younger brother of Adam who left the club last year, after spending four years on loan at Port Vale, Brondby and Barnsley.

At the unveiling of new signings Michael Owen, Antonio Valencia and Gabriel Obertan, Sir Alex Ferguson explained why Manchester United didn't sign Karim Benzema.

"There are some amazing numbers being talked about, not all of them realistic," said Ferguson. "It is very difficult to get value now.

Frazier Campbell has claimed his reason for joining Sunderland over Hull is because the North-East outfit are a bigger club, massive in fact!

Good luck to him.

"Sunderland are a massive club," said Campbell. "All you have to do is look around the facilities here. I spoke to the people behind the scenes and everything here is impressive.

Sunderland have signed Manchester United youngster, Frazier Campbell, for an initial £3.5m fee which could rise to £6m should various criteria be met.

Given that Hull were offering £7m for him last summer, it seems as though we've come up short. His time at Tottenham Hotspur likely did us no favours.

Manchester United accepted a bid from Hull for Frazier Campbell a month ago although talks were not to begin until our striker returned from the U-21 European Championships.

After spending a season long loan with Hull and helping them gain promotion to the Premiership, it is understandable why they were interested.

It seems as though Laurent Blanc isn't the only person surprised by Manchester United's latest transfer, as even the player himself, Gabriel Obertan, didn't expect the move to happen either.

"I knew they had been following me for a few years but I did not think it was going to happen this season," said Obertan.

Richard Eckersley has been linked with a loan move to QPR today which will see him get a years worth of experience in the Championship.

The right-back featured in four games for Manchester United last season, including two Premiership games against West Brom and Hull.

The 20-year-old Salford lad is seen as having potential to replace Gary Neville/Wes Brown and will be hoping to have a more success loan move than fellow full-back Danny Simpson.

Gabriel Obertan is now a Manchester United player after completing a medical with the club yesterday, with the fee believed to be around £3 million.

The 20-year-old was sent out on loan by Bordeaux last season although Sir Alex Ferguson believes the winger is one for the future.

However, Obertan is carrying a slight injury so will not be taking part in the pre-season tour.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was a player who topped many United fans' wishlists for years, although his big move to Real Madrid seemed to signal the end of any possibility of him coming to United. If we were going to get him, then surely it had to be when he made his first big move away from Holland, but apparently United weren't going to pay the £17-23m Real Madrid were prepared to fork out.

Roy Keane has attempted a different transfer strategy since taking over as Ipswich boss. Today, he completed the signing of Manchester United youth player Lee Martin... oh no wait, this is Keano's transfer policy in its entirety.

"It obviously wasn't an easy decision to leave a club like Manchester United but I know how ambitious the manager is here and I'm delighted to be a part of his plans for the future," said Martin.

Alberto Massacci is the latest young Italian talent to join Manchester United after Sir Alex Ferguson convinced him to come. Amazingly, the 16-year-old spoke with Ferguson in English for a whole hour, although I wonder whether the length of time was more to do with the player needing Fergie to keep repeating what he was saying!