Ridiculous

After the heady transfer activity of the last couple of days comes the most preposterously amusing rumour I've heard in a long time.

Which centre-half and World Cup runner up is rumoured to be a target for one time Serie A Champions, and soon to be Serie B also rans, Juventus?

Step forward (preferably without slipping, although I wouldn't bet on it) Jean Alain Boumsong.

Suggestions that it's a player plus cash deal (i.e. here's the player and some cash, if you'll take him away) may prove spurious.

Having said that, they wouldn't be the first side in black and white stripes to look to recruit him after selling their best defender to Real Madrid...