What the back pages of the papers say - July 3

Ousmane Dabo last night labelled Premier League hooligan Joey Barton a coward and called on Newcastle to sack him.

Also: A bewildered Andy Murray admitted he had no answer to the power of Rafael Nadal after his Wimbledon dream was crushed by the mighty Spaniard.

Take it or leave it: Lampard has been offered a bumper pay rise to stay at Chelsea

DAILY EXPRESS

Chelsea last night offered Frank Lampard a new £140,000-a-week take-it-or-leave-it contract which would make him the highest-paid player in British football, in a desperate bid to keep him out of the clutches of Inter Milan.

Also: David Coulthard is poised to announce the end of his career this weekend from the home stage where he has walked tall twice as a winner.

THE SUN

Gareth Barry was banned from all Aston Villa premises yesterday and fined £100,000 as his battle to join Liverpool turned ugly.

Also: Phil Scolari has told Chelsea to sell Didier Drogba. The new Blues boss wants funds to rebuild the squad and Sunsport can reveal he has told Roman Abramovich the Ivory Coast hitman can go.

DAILY STAR

Ousmane Dabo last night launched a scathing double attack on Joey Barton and Newcastle.

Also: Jonas 'Spiderman' Gutierrez has been caught in a real web of intrigue. Real Mallorca have landed a £12m compensation claim on Newcastle's first summer signing.

DAILY MIRROR

Roman Abramovich last night launched a £12million bid to sign Andrei Arshavin to fulfil his dream of making a Russian into a first team regular at Chelsea.

Also: Dimitar Berbatov faces the humiliating prospect of pre-season training with Tottenham today.

THE GUARDIAN

Tottenham Hotspur are confident a deal worth around £12m will eventually secure David Bentley from Blackburn.

Also: England and India must resolve their political stand-off over Zimbabwe today, after a tense debate at the International Cricket Council's annual meeting confirmed entrenched differences which may still threaten the stability of world cricket.

THE TIMES

Great Britain will send what is claimed to be their "strongest team ever in the modern era" to the Beijing Olympic Games next month and tabled detailed plans yesterday of where a possible 35 medals will come from, which should deliver a projected eighth place in the medals table.

Also: Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, faces the greatest test of his negotiating skills to persuade wavering boards that Zimbabwe should not participate in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament in England next year.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Manchester United are feverishly attempting to dissuade Carlos Queiroz from leaving the club to take up the post of Portugal coach, despite a reluctance within Old Trafford to offer Sir Alex Ferguson's assistant the guarantee that he will succeed the Scot when he finally retires as manager.

Also: A Swiss criminal court has ordered Fifa, world football's governing body, to pay £57,000 in costs following a trial into the spectacular collapse in 2001 of its marketing partners ISL.

THE INDEPENDENT

Mark Hughes believes he can rescue Ronaldinho's career by handing him the kind of talismanic role at Manchester City that Luis Felipe Scolari's Chelsea, believed to be rivals for the player's signature, cannot offer.

Also: Gareth Barry's career at Aston Villa is effectively over as his protracted transfer to Liverpool rumbled on with the player disciplined for speaking out against manager Martin O'Neill.