Babel and Kuyt in swap deal?

It has been a few very quiet days with no new transfer rumours surfacing on the radar, but with boxing day, and another postponed game, there is some new speculations on the horizon...

Liverpool are believed to have offered Ryan Babel and Dirk Kuyt to Inter in the hope of cutting a part-exchange deal to sign full-back Davide Santon.

Glen Johnson was previously reported to have been on his way out of the Anfield club owing to his exchanges with manager Roy Hodgson earlier in the season, and now the young Italian defender has been linked with a move to Merseyside.

The 19-year-old's agent had previously revealed exclusively to Goal.com UK that Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham are all interested in his client.

Now Itasportpress reports that the Reds had a bid of £8.5 million [€10m] kicked back, and have now offered to include Babel and Kuyt to fashion out a move, Goal.com report.

Among other things there is today again speculations to whom that might replace Roy Hodgson as Liverpool manager...

After parting ways with Rafael Benitez last summer Liverpool has begun the campaign in ignominious fashion, plunging into the relegation zone at one point, and endured something of a stop-start season up to now.

New England Sports Ventures - the owners of Liverpool - will reportedly allow Hodgson to remain in charge until the end of the season, when they would start searching for a new boss, Goal.com report.

Now the News of the World claims that Didier Deschamps is the top candidate to take the reins from the Anfield boss.

The Marseille manager is believed to have been previously interviewed as a replacement for Benitez, but was cast aside as Hodgson was favoured due to his prior experience in managing a Premier League club.