Despite Uefa’s cunning decision to stage this season’s European Cup final in the Russian capital - ensuring a mad scramble for overpriced airline tickets by 50,000 or so fans, all of them hoping to bag one of the city’s 35,000 hotel rooms and so confirm their eligibility for the £100 visa that will enable them to travel in the first place - it’s not only the supporters of two of English football’s biggest clubs who are in for an expensive summer. That’s likely to be bad news for La Liga, because - not content at making a £20m move for Barcelona front man Samuel Eto’o - Ramos also has a beady Iberian eye on David Villa, the Valencia forward of similarly stratospheric price tag. Groundhog day beckons for Eriksson, who looks set to lose his job as Manchester City manager but gain a small fortune - possibly as much as £5m - in compensation. Tacitly acknowledging that his decision-making abilities suffer nothing in comparison with those of Ronaldo , Thaksin hopes to placate City’s dismayed support - “to get rid of him, [Thaksin] seems like a bit of a nutcase” was Noel Gallagher’s succinct appraisal - by bringing in either Jose Mourinho or Luiz Felipe Scolari . The Arsenal midfielder looks set to turn down an offer of £55,000 per week from Arsenal in favour of a whopping £60,000 per week - that’ll be netto, Ruud - from Milan. Read More