Jason Cummings is at the centre of a major transfer battle in India...after Mumbai City joined champions Mohun Bagan in a bidding war to sign the former Scotland striker.
The ex-Hibs, Rangers, and Dundee maverick hitman looks set to leave Central Coast Mariners after resurrecting his career Down Under.
Cummings, 27, scored 17 goals for his club in just 25 appearances this season and has a release clause, despite having a year left on his contract.
Current I-League champions Mohun Bagan have offered Cummings £9,500-a-week to move to Indian football, but they are now trying to fight off ambitious rivals Mumbai City.
Mumbai City - who have former Aberdeen and Rangers forward Greg Stewart in their team too - are managed by English coach Des Buckingham, but lost in the play-off, semi-finals this year with Mohan Bagan snatching their title from them.
And they have launched an ambitious bid to persuade Cummings - who played at the World Cup for Australia last year after previously representing Scotland - to sign for them instead.
Mumbai City are backed by the City Football Group and wants to make Cummings their marquee signing for the new season.
Meanwhile, Ross Wilson's work at Nottingham Forest has been laid on the table by Gary Neville.
The sporting director left Rangers last week to take over his new role as Forest's chief football officer.
He took in his first game at the Premier League club as Forest were comfortably beaten by Manchester United yesterday.
Goals in either half by Antony and Diogo Dalot were enough for Erik Ten Hag's side to climb into third spot of England's top flight.
However, on the flip side, Steve Cooper's team have been left in the relegation zone. They are level on points with 17th-placed Everton, but they are ten goals worse off than their rivals.
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