While there's an absence of actual facts or quotes, it is interesting to note that the same story appears in both the Observer and the Sunday Times.
It makes you wonder whether it has been seeded by one of the players' agents, or if the Sunday papers are having one last punt at a crazy transfer to boost circulation figures ahead of deadline day.
From The Observer:
The Anfield club contacted City on Thursday to ask how much they want for Tevez and whether they would be willing to contemplate a straight exchange with Carroll. Brian Marwood, the City football administrator, rebuffed the idea immediately, even though Carroll is a player Roberto Mancini has admitted admiring when he was at Newcastle.
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