Light on the transfers

Not a lot on the menu this time:

• Xabi Alonso puts in a transfer request. Not good Liverpool. The Big Four is just bleeding stars these days.
  
• Could Patrick Vieira be heading back to Arsenal?
  
• Galatasaray snaps up City's Elano.
  
• Mascherano is still aching for a Barca move.
  
• Marseilles gets Madrid castoff Heinze.
  
• Zola is trying to get Inter phenom Mario Balotelli at West Ham.

Another day, more Madrid/City news.