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The Departures Lounge: your daily lunchtime transfer round-up

The best of the transfer tittle-tattle served up with your sandwich and cup of coffee.

DESPITE THEIR SEEMINGLY imminent capture of Jordan Henderson, Liverpool are by no means finished for the summer.

The Anfield club, probably with the likes of  Andriy Voronin still vivid in the memory, are seemingly adopting a policy of buying British, with Charlie Adam next on the list and Stewart Downing also attracting interest.

Sunderland, perhaps traumatised from their brief flirtation with relegation last year, will adopt the ingenious policy of signing players who have already endured this fate.

They will look to avail of the services of Birmingham duo Roger Johnson and Craig Gardner, who are both making ambitious bids to become the new Nigel ‘relegated four times’ Quashie.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has given fans the dreaded promise that star players Luka Modric, Sandro and Gareth Bale will not be sold, leading to their likely abrupt departure next week.

Manchester United will begin their attempt at post-Champions League recovery by signing Blackburn midfielder Phil Jones, who is currently undergoing a medical at Old Trafford according to reports. Ashley Young is also set to join the Old Trafford revolution, as Villa look to bring new meaning to the term ‘wingless wonders’.

Speaking of United, defender Rio Ferdinand has been forced to defend himself, not over his lackadasical recent England performance, but on account of him coming bottom of the recent vocabulary league football table.

Ferdinand’s team-mate Ryan Giggs has been described as the ‘new Tiger Woods’ for reasons other than his incredible sporting prowess obviously.

In yet more United-related news (the Glazers must have less debt than is being reported) the club are reportedly competing with Chelsea and Barcelona for the services of Udinese striker Alexis Sanchez, who will cost £30m.

Bolton have told Man City that Gary ‘yet another young, promising English player’ Cahill will cost them  £17m.

Finally, new 51-goal Irish hero Robbie Keane will be reunited with ex-boss Martin Jol at Fulham.