It seems like 33-year-old David Beckham has made a fine impression over in Italy with AC Milan by scoring two goals in his first four games. Beckham is under a five-year contract to the Los Angeles Galaxy of the North American Major League Soccer, but it seems the Italian giants are trying to persuade him to stay in Serie A and are willing to pay a £4.5m transfer fee. But so far there’s been no deal.

Since England has spent tons of money on the new Wembley Stadium, they want to put the pitch to good use, so the country has officially submitted their bid for the 2018 World Cup to FIFA. The deadline for submitting bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is February 2, and it’s believed that the USA is interested in bidding on both of them.

Wembley has been chosen by UEFA to host the 2011 Champions League final though.

It was chosen ahead of Munich’s Allianz Arena and Berlin’s Olympiastadion. Dublin’s Lansdowne Road will host the 2011 Europa League final, which is the new name for the UEFA Cup. In 2012, Munich will hold the Champions League final and Bucharest’s National Stadium will get the Europa League final.

Man United kept their grip on the top of the table with a convincing 5-0 drubbing of West Brom at The Hawthorns on Tuesday. During the game the team set a new top-flight English league record as it was their 11th consecutive game without conceding a goal and keeper Edwin Van der Sar broke Chelsea keeper Petr Cech’s record of going 1, 025 minutes without being beaten.

More news in the world of football includes West Ham signing German Under-20 forward Savio Nsereko from Brescia. Nsereko is only 19 and was actually born in Uganda. The player and club have hammered out four-and-a-half year deal

Transfers that you might just see in the next couple of days before the Feb. 2nd deadline comes include Manchester City manager Mark Hughes finally having his latest offer for 27-year-old Roque Santa Cruz of Blackburn being accepted. It’s reportedly up to £18.5m now. It seems City just can’t get rid of their money fast enough as they’re also trying to pry goalkeeper Shay Given away from Newcastle for £5m, so it must be burning a hole in somebody’s pocket.

And speaking of Newcastle, it appears that manager Joe Kinnear has a new soap opera on his hands as midfielder Charles N’Zogbia is crying because the Magpies manager mispronounced the 22-year-old Frenchman’s name in a TV interview. N’Zogbia insists he was insulted and would never play for Kinnear again. I say get rid of the baby. The club as also been busy in the transfer department by announcing the £4m signing of Bolton Wanderers captain Kevin Nolan. It’s believed the 26-year-old midfielder has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal and will fill the hole left by Joey Barton, who is out for 10 weeks with a broken foot.

Meanwhile Blackburn has paid Sunderland £2million for Senegalese striker El-Hadji Diouf.

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