During his time in the States, where he's been playing at left back, Nuri Sahin has kept amassing suitors in the Premiership. Liverpool is the latest club to have shown an interest in the Real Madrid midfielder, who isn't in Mourinho's plans for the near future and will soon be loaned out.

Liverpool – a club currently experiencing tricky times financially – would be willing to accept Madrid's only condition for Sahin to leave: that if he does so it would be on a loan or a transfer with a reasonable buy-back clause.

Brendan Rodgers being the new Liverpool manager counts in the club's favour, seeing as he began his life in the premiership working for José Mourinho. Rodgers was selected by Mou to train the Chelsea reserve team whilst the Portuguese was in charge of the Blues.

Until now, Arsenal was the team that had shown the most interest in having Sahin on loan. Arsene Wenger believes that the Turk would be a perfect fit for the style of play he uses for Arsenal's midfield. Another Premiership club that has expressed an interest (apart from United, who are interested in a permanent move) is Tottenham. For Villas-Boas, Sahin could be perfect to fill the gap left by Modric in the case that the negotiations for his transfer to Madrid are concluded successfully.