A round-up of the day's transfer news, once more domninated by Cesc Fabregas, Wayne Rooney and former Saints Gareth Bale...

New Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino's first job will be to persuade midfielder Cesc Fabregas not to leave the club and join Manchester United (The Independant)

Arsenal have failed in their latest attempt to sign Luis Suarez despite an extraordinary offer of £40,000,001 that they had hoped would force Liverpool to sell the Uruguay forward (The Times)

Real Madrid last night stepped up their £130m hunt for Gareth Bale (The Sun)

Tottenham last night warned Real Madrid to back off over Gareth Bale as the dirty tricks campaign to unsettle him rumbles on (Daily Star)

Manchester United landing Cesc Fabregas is set to trigger the sale of Wayne Rooney to Chelsea (Daily Star)