The top stories from papers and websites - 19 June 2012

• Tottenham have held early talks with Laurent Blanc's camp over the job at White Hart Lane.


• Manchester City have been warned it will cost them up to £30million to land Atletico Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente.


• Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has made £12million striker Olivier Giroud his second big summer signing.


• Manchester United will move to sign Porto winger James Rodriguez - if Nani's contract talks break down.


• Reading will smash their wage structure to land Pavel Pogrebnyak for around £13million.


• Blackburn striker Yakubu is in talks over a big-money move to Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou.


• Iceland midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson has until June 30 to sign for Liverpool.


• Steven Pienaar will hold talks with Tottenham next week to discuss his future.


• Reading manager Brian McDermott is ready to hijack Leicester's £1.2million swoop for Robert Koren and give Hull's midfielder another crack at the Premier League.


• Rafael Da Silva is close to agreeing a new four-year deal with Manchester United.


• Holland coach Bert van Marwijk faces the axe for an "unacceptable" Euro 2012 tournament.


• QPR boss Mark Hughes is thinking of replacing Joey Barton with Stephen Ireland.

• Tottenham chief Daniel Levy wants to talk with both Andre Villas-Boas and Laurent Blanc before deciding Harry Redknapp's successor.


• Chelsea are ready to make a shock £10million swoop for Wigan star Victor Moses.


• Nani fears he is being frozen out at Manchester United.


• Zat Knight wants to stay at Bolton and sign a new two-year contract to boost boss Owen Coyle.


• Tottenham defender Vedran Corluka is a £5million target for Lokomotiv Moscow.


• Leeds boss Neil Warnock is ready to seal a £500,000 reunion with Paddy Kenny today.

• Tottenham have held a second round of talks with Andre Villas-Boas as the former Chelsea boss emerges as a serious contender to replace Harry Redknapp.


• Arsenal will step up their efforts to nail Robin van Persie to a new contract despite the imminent £12.8million signing of Olivier Giroud from Montpellier.


• Dimitar Berbatov could be offered a way out of Manchester United and route back into the Champions League by Malaga.


• Anzhi Makhachkala are showing interest in Liverpool's Slovakia defender Martin Skrtel.


• Swansea want Utrecht winger Edouard Duplan.

• Laurent Blanc was yesterday being sounded out about taking over as Tottenham manager at the end of Euro 2012.


• QPR expect to complete the signing of England goalkeeper Robert Green in the next 48 hours.


• Arsenal last night agreed the £12million signing of Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud.

• Arsenal are on the verge of wrapping up the £13million signing of Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud.


• Newcastle bad boy Nile Ranger is in the middle of a tug-of-war between Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday.

• Roy Hodgson was last night considering unleashing Theo Walcott upon Ukraine in England's decisive final Euro 2012 group game tonight after the Arsenal winger was passed fit following an injury scare earlier in the week.

• Roy Hodgson is leaning towards picking Theo Walcott for Tuesday evening's decisive Group D fixture against Ukraine, with the England manager urging his players to seize the initiative against the co-hosts to force passage into the quarter-finals.

• England manager Roy Hodgson has said he wants to give the nation "something to dream about" at European Championships.

• Roy Hodgson heightened the growing sense of expectation surrounding England's European Championship campaign last night by comparing Wayne Rooney to Pele.


• Tottenham Hotspur interviewed Andre Villas-Boas yesterday.

• Newco Rangers could pay for the sins of the old regime after the SPL last night confirmed they had a case to answer over alleged illegal payments to players.

• Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic, 26, has told Everton they will have to wait until the end of Euro 2012 before he sorts out his future.


• Benfica are ready to reignite their interest in Denmark's underwear outlaw Nicklas Bendtner.

• Manchester United youngster Zeki Fryers, 19, could be set to leave Old Trafford, with Tottenham, Newcastle and Burnley all interested in the left-back.