TRANSFER NEWS: Ozil to City, Valdes nears Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs snubbed

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The summer transfer window may have closed, but with the season well underway managers can identify their team's weaknesses and search for potential additions in January...

Mesut Ozil wants to quit Arsenal for Manchester City, according to reports in Spain.

City are set to launch a £32m bid for Ozil in January.

Victor Valdes is poised to sign a deal with Manchester United.

The former Barcelona goalkeeper was expected to join Liverpool but is now training with United - and was spotted arriving at a hotel in Manchester last night.

United boss Louis van Gaal has made Argentina defender Ezequiel Garay his top target for January.

Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham had been linked with the Zenit St Petersburg centre-back in recent transfer windows.

 Mesut Ozil is a reported target for Manchester City [PA ]

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Manchester City handed Chelsea the advantage in the title race after slipping to a 2-1 defeat at West Ham.

Morgan Amalfitano and Diafra Sakho got the goals as Sam Allardyce's men stunned the champions at Upton Park.

Diego Costa still has an outside chance of playing at Old Trafford tomorrow as his Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insisted he will not protect the Spain striker to save him from injury.

The Chelsea top scorer has been nursing a hamstring injury all season, but he came back from international duty with Spain last week with a groin problem as well, and then a stomach virus which meant he had to be briefly hospitalised.

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