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Rumour Mill
Football transfer rumours: West Ham want
Jermain Defoe back?
Today’s fluff is halfway out the door
Could Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe be returning to West Ham this January? Photograph:
BPI/REX/Shutterstock
This is it. We’re done. Over. Finished. The last one. No más, no más. After this the Mill will be
packing our bags and leaving you to it. This is the absolute, definite, final Rumour Mill. Well, until
next Wednesday, anyway. Even vaguely sentient transfer round-ups have to kick back, pour out a glass
of ginger wine, chew on an ostrich steak and just let the fertile ground of footballing gossip breathe
and lie fallow for a short while.
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Everybody loves Antoine Griezmann, it seems. And why not? He’s a loveable sort with a pleasant,
son-in-law face but who’s really, really excellent at football. He’s a staple of the gossip pages but
that won’t be for long if the managers of the Premier League have their way and snap him up.
There’s a queue forming, with Pep Guardiola eyeing him up for a spot at Manchester City, while
United are also casting their beady ones in his direction and, perhaps most
interestingly/unrealistically, Arsenal are keen too.
Griezmann is on their list should the Gooners lose one/both of Mesut Özil or Alexis Sánchez, along