Transfer Rumours: July 07

In what will surely rival the debate 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' (well, probably not), you'll go round in circles trying to decipher which preceded the other, the Daily Star Sunday's headline 'Heinze Means Baines' or the rumour itself.

Wigan left-back Leighton Baines, previously a target of Everton and Sunderland, is being tipped to make the move to Old Trafford if Gabriel Heinze departs for pastures new.

Alan Smith continues to be linked with a host of Premiership clubs. Middlesbrough, Everton and Aston Villa have all been flavour of the day with the tabloids, but Big Sam Allardyce's Newcastle are supposedly now favourites to whisk the Reds striker away from OT for £6million.