* The thoroughly likeable Joey Barton appears to have signed for Newcastle for around £5.5m. The Barcodes are also reported to have signed Mark Viduka on a free.
* Reuters:
Villarreal's Uruguay striker Diego Forlan and Brazilian-born Spain midfielder Marcos Senna had to be separated by team mates after coming to blows for almost two minutes following some hefty challenges during training.
"We had been having a go at each other and it ended up like that. We lost our tempers and that's it. We'll have a chat tomorrow and I don't think we'll have any more problems," Forlan told a news conference.
* Tottenham's Dimitar Berbatov talking to Bulgarian paper Standart responds to some loaded questions about United:
"I am a happy man in Tottenham.
"The club gives me everything I need to feel nice with them, and I actually do. As for United, of course I like Sir Alex's team.
"Their style is attacking and pleasant to watch, and it coincides with my own style of playing football.
"Giggs, Scholes and Rooney are fantastic players and Cristiano Ronaldo on the right side is a magician with the ball, he plays football from another planet.
"Of course, it would be a pleasure for me to play with these guys; they simply know how to have fun on the pitch."