United and Liverpool enjoy friendly wins

Hibernian dumped out of Intertoto Cup

Ronaldinho not likely to join Manchester City

Stoke sign Austin and agree fee for Carson

Another Rooney set to grace professional football

Audacious bid by Marseille fans to bring Drogba back

With just thirty-two days to go to the new season, transfer gossip is still very much in the headlines as well as a few pre-season matches.

Manchester United visitied Fergie’s old home of Pittodrie and beat their hosts 2-0 with a slightly less mobile Rooney scoring one of them.

Liverpool made the short hop across the Mersey to beat Tranmere with Yossi Benayoun scoring the only goal of the game, Liverpool now travel to Switzerland while United head for South Africa to continue their preparations for the new season.

Hibernian’s European season is over after they were beaten 2-0 by Danish side Elfsborg in the Intertoto Cup to lose 4-0 on aggregate, meanwhile Aston Villa will face Odense BK in the third and final round of the competition.

Transfer news still centre’s more around gossip than any actual deals.

Ronaldinho looks set to snub Manchester City for AC Milan.

Premier new boys Stoke have signed Jamaican midfielder Rudolph Austin, subject to him getting a work permit, for £1m. They have also had a £4m bid accepted for Liverpool keeper Scott Carson.

While Wayne Rooney was scoring for Manchester United over the weekend his younger brother John was putting pen to paper on a two-year professional contract with Macclesfield Town.

Marseille fans have launched an appeal to try and raise the money to buy back their former star Didier Drogba who looks likely to head out of the door at Stamford Bridge. And raised 1.5 million dollars before their website crashed.

Kevin Taylor