Football transfer rumours: Chelsea to sign Bolton's Gary Cahill?

Chelsea have been urged to dump John Terry, according to no less a tactical mind than Vinnie Jones. "Sometimes you've got to clear the decks," the movie hardman grunted. There is indeed no excuse for continuing to employ someone once they have so evidently stopped contributing anything worthwhile, as to their credit Hollywood's major casting directors appear to have discovered. The Mirror proudly splash on the "exclusive" news that Chelsea will try to sign Gary Cahill in January, with a fee of £7m mooted. The "exclusive" that André Villas-Boas is keen to sign the Bolton centre-back is also reported by pretty much every other national paper, was in the Express more than a month ago, on the back page of the People on 4 September and in both the Sun and the Evening Standard back in July. Bolton have already identified Cahill's replacement in the shape of Manchester City's Nedum Onuoha , though they will have to battle rival suitors Blackburn , QPR and West Brom for his services. The Telegraph links Chelsea once again with a move for Porto's left-sided Uruguayan ace Alvaro Pereira , but the future of Nicolas Anelka is less clear. The French forward is considered likely to leave the club, perhaps as early as January – sometimes, after all, you've got to clear the decks – but Chinese outfit Shanghai Shenhua have admitted that they can't afford to sign him. "There are so many clubs interested in him: Milan, Russian clubs and some Gulf clubs," a source told Shanghai newspaper DF Daily. "If we want to sign him, it would cost plenty." The former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti's "name is being mentioned" in Arsenal's corridors of power as they ponder how to replace Arsène Wenger should the Frenchman leave sometime soon. The good news for everyone, though, is that he isn't going to. "I have a few more years to go," Wenger said. "I will stay and that's it." He might be joined at the Emirates by Dortmund's £30m-rated 19-year-old wonderkid Mario Götze , who was watched by not one but two Arsenal scouts as he scored the winner against Bayern Munich at the weekend. Another German on Wenger's watchlist is Borussia Mönchengladbach's Patrick Herrmann, who is so manly his surname means "man man" in his native tongue, and who is also being monitored – or should that be manitored? – by Napoli . The Sun claims that Sven-Goran Eriksson is close to agreeing a move to Tehran club Persepolis . "We are going to sign a big coach," claimed their general manager, Mohammad Ruyanian. "We have negotiated with Sven-Goran Eriksson." Skipping over the question of whether anyone whose last two clubs were Notts County and Leicester genuinely qualifies as a "big coach", in which case they might as well just go for Gary Johnson and be done with it, the newspaper considerately warns Sven to be aware of the implications of such a move. "High-living Sven faces a drastic lifestyle change if he moves to Iran, run by ranting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," they warn. "Booze is banned and glam women like Sven's ex Nancy dell'Ollio could be lashed for failing to wear a veil in public." In other news involving people who don't live here, Valencia's Turkish midfielder Mehmet Topal has declared that he fancies a move to England. "I am happy at Valencia," said Topal, who first shot to international attention when he starred in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof, "but there are teams interested in me and the Premier League is a step that I would like to make a reality." It's a similar story with Atlético Madrid's Diego Godín . "I am at Atlético, but if there is interest from Chelsea it will be studied," he said. "For the time being, there is nothing." Liverpool and Anzhi Makhachkala are both plotting a January move for Barcelona's Seydou Keita . Kenny Dalglish has also arranged a trial for Farjestaden's Swedish starlet Gustav Engvall , who at 15 years of age is less than half as old as Barça's Malian midfielder. Talking of promising youngsters, Manchester United are among the Premier League clubs monitoring Dulwich Hamlet's 17-year-old defensive prodigy Michael Chambers . "Michael is a very talented and sensible boy," said his agent, the former Arsenal, Watford and Hemel Hempstead Town midfielder Paolo Vernazza. In other Manchester United news, Phil Jones has bought a £130,000 Aston Martin V12 Vantage. Finally, the story every football fan wanted to hear: Joey Barton is considering alternative careers. "I know for a fact that if I set my mind to becoming a venture capitalist, a philanthropist, an anger management counsellor, or a Catholic priest, my mindset is such that if I want to prove people wrong then I am able to do that. The reason I'm still playing is because I love the game. But it's not going to define me as a human being." Indeed not, Joey. This is .