Chelsea transfer news: Burnley chase Michael Keane replacement as they prepare for Blues to swoop for defender
Swansea also ready to test Tottenham's resolve by bidding for £10million-rated outcast Tom Carroll
BURNLEY are chasing Barnsley centre-half Marc Roberts as they prepare to receive bids for Michael Keane.
Roberts, 26 and 6ft 4in, has attracted Premier League interest with his meteoric rise from the non-League ranks at Halifax.
He is already fancied by West Brom for his old-fashioned defending style, but Tony Pulis sees him only as a squad man.
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Sean Dyche’s Clarets expect Leicester and Chelsea to head the chase for Keane.
SWANSEA are ready to bid for Tottenham’s £10million-rated outcast Tom Carroll.
The midfield playmaker, 24, impressed on loan last season.
Swansea supremo Huw Jenkins will make money available in January and has an eye on young talent whose value can rise.
The Swans want to send their England Under-21 centre-half Alfie Mawson out on loan in the New Year.
But they may have to subsidise his £20,000-a-week wages.
TOP Liverpool starlet Cameron Brannagan will be allowed out on loan in January.
Bolton lead the race for the midfield prospect, 20.
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The Middlesbrough striker, 26, believes the Owls play his type of attacking football and that he has a chance to repeat his promotion-winning heroics.
But Aston Villa are keen and will buy him if they have to — which is going to make his exit from Boro complicated.
Villa chief Steve Bruce will be backed in his pursuit and he will not give up the chase easily.
FED-UP Stoke keeper Daniel Bachmann wants to go out on loan.
The former Austria Under-21 cap is out of the squad and may move in January.
WOLVES boss Paul Lambert is going back to Blackburn with an offer for Ben Marshall.
Lambert worked with the £1.5million-rated star, 25, at Rovers and wants the versatile winger again.
Marshall has refused new terms and his deal expires this season but Wolves will have to go some to meet his £25,000-a-week wage demands.
Lambert also wants striker Sam Gallagher, but Southampton will leave him on loan at Blackburn unless they get a big January bid.
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He signed for £1million in the summer when Evangelos Marinakis was trying to buy Forest. That deal collapsed but the ty- coon wants him at his main club Olympiakos.
MARK VENUS is looking for the next boss of Coventry City as he prepares to move upstairs.
Venus, 49, has been in caretaker charge since Tony Mowbray quit in September but has now decided he is better suited to a director of football role at the Ricoh.