Manchester City tend to be the focus for a lot of transfer rumours, and with a new rich list out today you can see why they have the cash to splash.
A new football rich list shows that Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is twice as wealthy as Chelsea's Roman Abramovich.
But in support of the less wealthy teams who have to really wheel and deal, here is Vassos' transfer rumour of the day:
This one has a "whiff of truth about it" according to our sports presenter Vassos.
Arsenal are short of a midfield playmaker now that Cesc Fabregas is out injured with a crocked knee and the Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has tried to sign the Croatian and Portsmouth player before.
He didn't get his man last year but that was last year and things at Fratton park are a bit different now. Harry Redknapp's gone to Spurs, Jermaine Defoe looks like he might follow and Lassana Diarra has already left for Real Madrid for about £20m.
For about £10m, Arsenal could bag themselves one the most creative midfielders in the league.
Chances of it happening? Vassos gives it 7 out of 10.
My van display. Paul the electrician from Oxford.
John Kelly sent this - not taken this morning. It's Pen y Fan in south Wales.
It's time to blow away the cobwebs by opening the January transfer window, and there have already been a few movers and shakers.
Man United have signed Toran Tosic and Adem Ljajic from Partizan Belgrade.....only to loan Ljajic straight back to his club, and Wayne Bridge has left Chelsea to join the blue half of Manchester.
But today's transfer rumour is about Middlesbrough's Stewart Downing. The Press Association say that the England winger is expected to put in a transfer request today with Spurs maintaining their interest in the England winger.
However a £6million offer from Spurs has been called "derisory" by middlesbrough as Downing only signed a new 5 year deal 11 months ago, and their owner Steve Gibson has said that he's not for sale.
But can you keep a player whose head has been turned? Villa would say so, they kept their captain Gareth Barry.
It's FA Cup 3rd Round Day and as the excitement mounts 5 Live is the place to be for all the build-up and the action.
This morning on Breakfast we wanted your favourite FA Cup memories and were flooded with texts and emails, and indeed after 8, calls.
Here are a few of your ideas:
"My favourite fa cup memory was- 4th of jan 2003. Shrewsbury 2- 1 Everton. That season Everton finished 5th and Shrewsbury went out off the league."
"Never mind the good memories. The worst day of my life was 1993 fa cup final replay when in the last minute of xtra time andy linighan scored a header to break my heart and that of 30,000 other Sheffield Wednesday fans. And my renault 5 gt turbo had been smashed up when i got back 2 stanmore. Gutted. Jim, Sheffield. "
"Bunked off school '54ish to watch Blyth Spartans beat Boston 5-4 in the 1st round. Saw us in 78 in the 5th round. Go Blyth. Patricia, Norfolk."
"I was 15 in 1987 when i saw coventry won the cup. My two brothers and i arrived at wembley at 7pm the night before. We played a "jumpers for goalposts" game in the wembley car park. My brother missed a penalty, the first to be missed in a Wembley final I believe. Leo in Lewes."
Keep those memories coming with your Comments. And the Transfer Rumour of the Day is that Manchester City will now make a £32m move for three top players...
The Sun reckons Manchester City manager Mark Hughes will move for two strikers and a midfielder: Roque Santa Cruz, Craig Bellamy and Scott Parker heading to Eastlands in a triple deal they hope will be done by the end of next week.
It's 40 years old, but still a hit with rugby fans, Karaoke singers and now 5 live listeners!
Tom Jones' classic song Delilah - which reached no.2 in 1968 - has been voted the Best Ever Chorus in our competition, narrowly beating All You Need is Love by the Beatles.
Thanks to all of you who took part.
Did you know the song was actually written by Les Reed and Barry Mason? Listen to our interview with Les here...
So we're close to finding out which is the 'Best chorus ever'. We asked you to nomimate your best choruses. We had strings of suggestions. And nine of our presenters picked their favourites, based on your choices. Over the past three days you've whittled that list of nine down to three by taking part in a text vote.
Well, we now know which three songs have made the cut and are through to the final on January 1st.. They are 'All you need is love' by The Beatles, 'Delilah' by Tom Jones and 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush. From seven tomorrow morning you'll be able to vote for which one you think makes the best chorus of all time.
We're getting closer to finding the 'Best chorus ever'. You'll remember that we got you to nominate the songs with the best chorus in. We had hundreds of suggestions. We got nine of our presenters to pick their favourite chorus. And then we asked you to vote for your favourite ones in three semi-finals. The first one was on Monday and 'All you need is love' by The Beatles came out top. Today 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush was the winner. And tomorrow the third semi final sees Bon Jovi's 'Living on a prayer' pitched against Take That's 'Never Forget' and Tom Jones' 'Delilah'. The three winners will all go forward into the Grand Final on January 1st.
The only people who work harder than Father Christmas and the reindeer at this time of year are the people putting together the Breakfast programme.
Ok - maybe a slight exaggeration, but it does take a lot of effort to keep the programme going over Christmas and the New Year.
We are on air every single day - the only concession to Christmas is that on Dec 25 the programme doesn't start until 7am. Apart from that we are here, as usual, every morning.
Magic tricks on the radio? Some would say it's ill-advised to try - however this morning we had a magician explaining how to avoid being caught out.
Emmanuel Faja has been recruited by Waltham Forest Council in East London. It has a problem with a street gambling - and this can involve people being encouraged to take part in games which are in fact a con, which they have no chance of winning.
Afterwards Emmanuel did a demonstration for our camera. Watch carefully - and see if you can spot the sleight of hand.
This morning we featured the third update from our reporter on the road to Bethlehem, here's Hasit who produced today's programme to explain more:
"It was supposed to be a modern recreation of one of the most famous, significant journeys of all time, taking in the sights and sounds of a land that is still riven with conflict.
But our reporter Aleem Maqbool's trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem has been hijacked by a succession of donkey problems.
We'll keep following his journey every day, and hopefully he'll make it to the inn by Christmas, but we'll also keep a close eye on Cynthia, Donkey Oatie, and any other strays he manages to pick up..."
If you missed it, you can listen to the latest of Aleem's reports below.
He's also keeping a diary of his jorney on the BBC news website. Read Aleem's diary on The road to Bethlehem.
We kicked it off on Monday morning with our Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson explaining the rules and sharing the unique insight of Rob Davies, the man who helped write hits such as Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head and Toca's Miracle. Both great choruses, but are they among your choices? If you missed that chat you can listen again below
This morning he's once again been finding out the story behind the music and talking to the man who wrote one possible contender for the best ever chorus of all time, Mandy. Except it wasn't originally called that. Listen below to find out what it was called before Barry Manilow got his hands on it.
There's still plenty of time to nominate your favourite chorus - nominations run until midnight Tuesday 16 December. But it's by text only.
You can find out how to nominate and read the full terms and conditions of voting on our earlier post.
The decision on Strictly Come Dancing last night to allow all three couples entry to next week's final prompted howls of anguish and outrage from many listeners this morning.
"What a fiasco - what happens next week. It makes a complete mockerey of last nights show." Said Neil in Lichfield.
"STRICTLY COME STITCH UP !!! This is all due to the concerted effort to rid us of the talented John Sargeant. The show could been brought to a conclusion a week earlier...... Shame on you BBC . The license payer is cheated again ,let alone those people who made the phone calls" Cried Bryan White.
On the morning after the conclusion of ITV's X-Factor all the headlines belonged to Strictly and our audience were quick off the mark to tell us what they think.
What is the best chorus ever? That's the question we are asking later this month. But to get the whole process started we need nominations - and so over the next couple of days people can text 85058 with the word CHORUS and then their nomination.
Nominations will close at midnight on Tuesday 16 December. And then we'll be voting on the 29th, 30th and 31st of December to find a final three - and we'll get an overall winner on our programme on January 1st.
If you listened this morning you would have heard how a radical approach to tackling gang violence is taking place in Glasgow.
5 live has had unique access to a project being tried by Strathclyde Police who have adopted the 'Boston Strategy' to try and deal with the high murder rate in Glasgow.
The strategy is based on an American idea that first surfaced in the 90s when law enforcement agencies in Boston relentlessly pursued street gangs, cleaned up entire neighbourhoods, and reduced the murder rate.
The police in Glasgow brought together 150 members of 55 different street gangs and gave them a simple choice. They could either receive help to get qualifications, education and jobs or stay in a gang and end up in jail.
To find out more about the strategy we sent Phil Mackie to Glasgow and Boston. He spoke to Nicky this morning to tell us about the strategy.
Our reporter James Shaw was in the east end of Glasgow for us this morning. He gave us an idea of what the gang scene in Glasgow is like.
To discover how successful the strategy has been in Glasgow we spoke to DCS John Carnochan who is the Head of the Scottish national Violence Reduction Unit.
The Boston Strategy has also caught the eye of the Tories, they've said that when they get into power it could become a model for the way youth street gangs are tackled.
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