The Sports Pages
“Manchester City are set to smash through the £100m transfer barrier for the second successive summer after snapping up £24m Spain World Cup star David Silva,†reads the first paragraph of the main sports story in The Daily Star.
Barcelona midfielder Yaya Toure is likely to join Silva at Eastlands in a £27m move within the next 24 hours.
On the sports pages in the Indo, reports on Merseyside last night indicated that Roy Hodgson will today officially take over as the Liverpool manager on a two-year deal and Roger Federer lost his Wimbledon crown after suffering a shock quarter-final defeat to Tomas Berdych from the Czech Republic.
