From the back pages, May 26: Arsenal ready to break the bank and lure wantaway Rooney to Emirates

By The Newsroom
Published 25th May 2013, 08:48 BST
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Arsenal are growing increasingly confident they can finance a record-breaking move for Wayne Rooney. Sportmail exclusively revealed the Gunners’ interest in the unsettled Manchester United star last week. (Daily Mail)

JOSE MOURINHO wants Luka Modric to join him at Chelsea. The Special One is quitting Real Madrid for Stamford Bridge next week and hopes the Croatian playmaker will follow him out of the Bernabeu. (The Sun)

David Moyes last night took the axe to Sir Alex Ferguson’s backroom staff at Manchester United. He booted out No.2 Mike Phelan and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele. Phelan, 50, had been Fergie’s faithful right-hand man since 2008, but Moyes wants his own assistants. (The Mirror)