Birmingham are chasing Roman Pavlyuchenko and Kenwyne Jones, while Sunderland are ready to revive their interest in Liverpool’s Ryan Babel.

Liverpool are ready to offload Ryan Babel before the end of the month and would even let him join Arsenal if the price is right.

The agent for Liverpool winger Ryan Babel claims his client could yet seal a £9million move to Birmingham during the January transfer window.

From today’s Daily Mirror:Birmingham to make third bid for Babel – Exclusive Lille offer Pompey a 10m lifeline for Younes Kaboul Everton set to win transfer tussle for Leeds star – Exclusive Spurs fail in move for Man United star Amr Zaki vows to behave

Steve Bruce insists he has no intention of sanctioning a swap deal involving Kenwyne Jones and Ryan Babel.

Ryan Babel has reportedly rejected the chance to go to Sunderland in a swap deal that would have seen Kenwyne Jones move to Liverpool.

Under-pressure Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez faced a new headache – how to deal with Ryan Babel revealing on Twitter that he had been dropped.

From today’s Daily Mirror: Stoke close to completing shock transfer deal for England star – exclusive Birmingham target Spurs hitman after Babel rejects McLeish Tottenham signing Sandro describes transfer as ‘dream” come true Liverpool make shock offer

Blues ready to pay 10million for Russia striker

You can’t blame Ryan Babel for feeling frozen out at Liverpool.The winger arrived at the club’s Melwood HQ on Thursday morning to find that training had been cancelled but no-one had bothered to tell him.Babel, who seems certain to leave in the transfer