Crisis club set to sign Spurs duo and other red-hot gossip

(15-08-2010) Aston Villa, whose manager Martin O’Neil resigned just five days before the season, are set to enter the transfer market in order to get their season back on course. Despite being managerless (and starting the season with an impressive 3-0 win over West Ham), the Birmingham–based club are about to launch a £20m move for Tottenham duo David Bentley and Robbie Keane. Elsewhere, West Ham striker Carlton Cole remains a target for Liverpool, whose midfielder Javier Mascherano is set for Inter Milan; football legend Pele has urged in-demand teenage striker Neymar to stay with Santos and reject a move to Chelsea; and Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko could be on his way out of White Hart Lane with Marseille keen on the Russian star.