Premier League,The pick of today's football transfer rumours on 13 June 2011

reacts to the news that Neymar  could be playing alongside Fernando Torres next season.

Premier League:
Overnight, the multiple double acting crank arms, pistons and cylinders of subtle inference
have been working overtime now that those two goliaths of summer transfer dealings, Manchester City and Chelsea, have begun to throw their weight around.
  The pick of today's European football transfer rumours for 13 June 2011. Any transfer gossip surrounding Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Roma, Barcelona and Real Madrid will be covered here
With former fan-favourite, low-fat Frank Lampard not getting any younger and beginning to show signs of wear and tear, the Stamford Bridge outfit need to start thinking about finding a long-term replacement and according to the Metro, Palermo's attacking midfielder Javier Pastore could be just the man for the job. The club will abandon last season's policy of nurturing homegrown talent by embarking on a South American recruitment drive with Brazilian wunderkind Neymar (£30m) and Carlos Tevez (£35m) also on the club's hit-list.
Mancini will also add to his roster of attacking midfielders with a £35m bid for Napoli's Marek Hamsik, as well as having a £30m punt on Tottenham's Luka Modric.
Across town, Manchester United will increase their bid for Phil Jones to £20m after Blackburn's owners refused to accept that Jordan Henderson was worth more than the defender.
Astute transfer wheeler-dealer Sir Alex Ferguson will also offload £7.4 million flop Bebe to Besiktas with a view to a permanent move to Turkey after the player failed to impress last season, reports the Mail.
Down in London, Arsenal have dismissed talk of Nasri's departure as just that: talk ... and nonsense - "absolute nonsense", in fact; the purest kind. The Daily Mail reports that majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is ready to open his chequebook to keep the Frenchman at the club.
If that doesn't work, Nasri definitely won't be sold to another Premier League club or for anything less than £25m - bad news for Manchester United but good news for Bayern Munich who are interested in the player.
And Arsene Wenger will miss out another target when Liverpool continue their summer campaign of collecting the best English talent by signing Southampton's £10m-rated Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, according to the Guardian.
Kenny Dalglish will then go mano-a-mano with managerless Aston Villa over Madrid defensive midfielder Fernando Gago, 25.
La Liga
Despite not being linked to the club, the oft-mentioned Eden Hazard would be delighted to sign for Barcelona. He told El Mundo Deportivo: "Barca? Can I even get into their team? It's an honour to be linked with the best team in the world but I have nothing else to say. It is great to hear news like that."
One player Barcelona are set to sign is Hercules youngster Kiko Femenia, who will cost 10 million euros. Because if there's one thing the Catalan club needs it's another midfielder...