Making the back pages this morning, Wednesday July 16, 2008:

THE SUN: Liverpool are ready to make Robbie Keane one of the world's costliest players this week... Also: Wayne Bridge has signed a whopping £16.6million deal with Chelsea - on Big Phil Scolari's orders.

DAILY MIRROR: Frank Lampard was last night poised to ask Chelsea for a transfer to force through his move to Inter Milan... Also: Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan is set to sign Argentine star Pablo Aimar in a sensational £7million deal - the biggest signing he has made since returning to St James' Park in January.

DAILY STAR: Padraig Harrington is facing a battle with injury to defend his crown... Also: Gareth Barry has been ordered back to Aston Villa today.

DAILY EXPRESS: Padraig Harrington dropped another bombshell on an Open Championship that seemed cursed last night when he revealed a sprained wrist could stop him from defending the Claret Jug he won at Carnoustie last year... Also: Gareth Barry will come face to face with Martin O'Neill today for the first time since being banned from Aston Villa.

DAILY MAIL: Gareth Barry today faces a humiliating climbdown when he reports to Aston Villa for training... Also: An Open Championship already missing world number one Tiger Woods suffered another scare yesterday when defending champion Padraig Harrington declared himself a major doubt for tomorrow's first round.

THE TIMES: Padraig Harrington is in a race against time to be fit to defend his Open Championship title after damaging a wrist in a training incident involving an impact bag... Also: Luiz Felipe Scolari has challenged Chelsea's fringe players, such as Shaun Wright-Phillips, to prove that they are worth a place in the squad during their pre-season tour.

THE INDEPENDENT: Already there are whispers in the dunes here of "the doomed Open"... Also: Arsenal expect to be in a position to make an offer for Gareth Barry this week when they finally close the deal to sell their former captain Gilberto Silva to Panathinaikos.

THE GUARDIAN: Losing the best golfer in the world was bad enough for the R&A but the organisers of the 2008 Open were last night facing the nightmare possibility of a tournament without a defending champion after Padraig Harrington declared himself a doubtful starter for tomorrow's first round at Royal Birkdale... Also: Hayley Haining yesterday revealed that she is considering giving a miss to next month's Olympics in Beijing rather than going there to be told at the last minute that she will not be running.

DAILY TELEGRAPH: English cricket last night shied away from a proposed Twenty20 English Premier League comprising nine new city franchises... Also: Sergio Garcia wants to play himself out of a situation in which he is quizzed non-stop about how he lost the Open.