We are definitely into silly season as most of the sports pages are dominated by transfer rumours.
The Irish Sun reckons it has got its hands on an exclusive – ‘Inter’s Benitez swoop’. Apparently the Serie A champions have ditched efforts to secure the signature of Fabio Capello and are moving on Liverpool’s free-spending minge-faced dynamo, Rafa Benitez.
The sport section of the Irish Daily Mail leads with ‘Ready to go’. Apparently Villa’s move for Kevin Doyle is on, due in part to the news that Wolves are in the final stages of securing the signature of Steven Fletcher from Burnley.
The paper also carries a tasty Championship story on page 70 – apparently Cork full-back Eoin Cadogan has said it would be foolish to write off the Premier county based on their performance against the rebels.
In one of those strange situations in which two people find themselves contradicting each other on the same subject at the same time without knowing they are doing so, Tipp’s former manager Michael ‘Babs’ Keating has written of the county’s All-Ireland prospects in an angry outburst in the wake of Sunday’s crushing Munster SHC defeat to Cork. ‘Babs points finger at Tipp ‘failures’’ is the headline.
The Daily Express seems to be a bit off the pace with their transfer news – ‘Hands off Fabio’ is the headline. According to The Irish Sun, that is, like, so yesterday news?
