Manchester United are to give the teenage sensation Adnan Januzaj a 2,900% pay rise, reports the Sun, in an effort to keep him at Old Trafford. If the nation's biggest-selling newspaper is right United's offer would up the starlet's salary from the relatively miserly £1,000 a week he's earning now to £30,000. But there's wild uncertainty about the precise deal on the table, with Metro putting it at £50,000 a week and The Mail reckoning United's generous moneymen will be willing to go to £60,000. Talking of Manchester United, kind of, their former first-team coach Rene Meulensteen could shortly be back in Premier League employment after he was offered a job by Fulham, though there are said to be several more lucrative offers on the table.

Talking of coaches, Harry Redknapp's autobiography is being exclusively serialised in the Mail, where today's key revelations are that Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry all texted saying they wanted him to get the England job, and that he had already lined up Brendan Rodgers as his part-time temporary international assistant for the European Championships.

"He had players at Swansea passing it like Franz Beckenbauer," Redknapp reveals. "My thinking with Brendan was this: if he can do it with players from the lower leagues at Swansea, what can he do with Rio and Terry and Rooney and Gerrard? He was up for it. 'It would be a great experience for you, Brendan,' I told him. 'I want England to play like you play. Pass the ball, play and play and play.' Redknapp also reveals that he will now never manage England. "The FA made their decision and I cannot see me wanting to work for them in the future," he wrote. "If the job came up again, I wouldn't want to be considered."

And Redknapp isn't the only major English footballing figure who is turning his back on the national game – Gary Lineker is considering emigration. "We've been out to LA recently and I love the lifestyle," he enthused. "There are great opportunities for my wife Danielle to work as an actress but I'm not sure my career as a football pundit would hold up in the US." The career of Lineker's wife is already on the up, with this year seeing her most high-profile role to date – "Reporter" in an episode of BBC series Silent Witness.

PSV Eindhoven's 17-year-old Belgian prodigy Zakaria Bakkali, linked in Friday's Mill with Arsenal, is today being linked with Manchester United – and local rivals City are also rumoured to be sniffing around a player labelled "the new Eden Hazard". Really, this Belgian golden generation business is getting ridiculous. The old Eden Hazard is only 22 and they've already got a new one, and meanwhile we're still looking for a new Bobby Moore. In further scouting news, Tottenham have been looking for the new Andrea Pirlo – but have failed, given up and instead started talks with the old one, who is already 35.

"There is contact between Pirlo and Tottenham for next season," revealed Gianluca Vialli, who insists he has "got the rumours from London". Very wise too – it's where all the best rumours come from. London is to rumours what Campania is to mozzarella, as Gianluca has obviously realised.

It could be considered that Alan Pardew gave a fairly big hint that he wanted to sign Loïc Remy by, um, trying to sign him last January, and offered a decent-sized clue that he still wanted to sign him by, well, actually signing him in the summer, albeit only on loan from QPR. Anyway, he still wants to sign him. "He is on our books and we are pleased to have him," Pardew revealed. "At the moment he is a QPR player. It was interesting to read Harry Redknapp's comments that he probably won't be coming back, but we'll see."

Talking of not signing strikers, Mark Hughes has detailed Stoke's failure to sign Darren Bent in the summer. "We looked at Darren but we were told he wouldn't come to Stoke – or his agent wouldn't – so that was that," he sniffed. "We don't know why but we didn't get a chance."

Bolton are planning a January clear-out, with many of the players whose contracts are up next summer to be made available six months early. David Ngog – the £4m former Liverpool sharpshooter who with no goals at all so far this season is struggling to suggest that he will match last season's career-best haul of, er, eight – Chris Eagles, Zat Knight, David Wheater and Tyrone Mears are the names on the list, though no suitors have so far been publicly identified.