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David Beckham's proposed permanent move to Milan from LA Galaxy could be hitting a snag.

Milan are willing to pay a reasonable fee of around £6.7 million for Becks, who has been a revelation since his short-term loan started at the Rossoneri in January.

But Galaxy want a Manchester City-esque amount for a 33-year-old, speculated to be more than twice Milan's offer.

"We made an offer to Galaxy and they didn't accept it," Milan general manager Adriano Galliani told Sky Italia. "However, there's a willingness to talk between a party who's making an offer, which is Milan, and another who's evaluating it."

Galliani also praised Beckham's politeness and professionalism, although the examples of his good behaviour - cleaning his own kit, packing his own bags and "opening and closing the bottle of water and returning it, without throwing it away" - perhaps owe more to his obsessive compulsive disorder than being 'old school'.

Liverpool misfit Andrei Voronin is on loan at Hertha Berlin and could be set for a shock return to Anfield with the club desperately short of strikers following the sale of Robbie Keane.

"We want to have talks with Berlin quickly. I know my agent has been talking to Liverpool recently," Voronin said.

"I still have a contract at Anfield. They've just sold Robbie Keane. Up until he joined last summer, I was getting games for Liverpool.

"They have a shortage of strikers now. I would enjoy staying at Hertha. And even if I am not to stay on, I will give my very best until the very end."

Wigan boss Steve Bruce has called on Zamalek to decide just how much striker Amr Zaki is worth.

The 25-year-old is on loan from the Egyptian Premier League club, who are notorious for changing their demands from one day to the next.

"There will be a time when we ask Zamalek exactly what the price is," Bruce said. "It was £12m four months ago, at the start it might have been £6m.

"The ball is in their court: there will be dialogue."

Zaki has been a big hit at the JJB although his goals have dried up in the winter months so perhaps the revised price will be somewhat lower than when his stock was highest in the autumn.

Wigan are also chasing Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Michael Kightly in anticipation of Luis Antonio Valencia's summer exit.

Ecuador winger Valencia is expected to move to one of Europe's top clubs at the end of the season after both he and Wigan rejected a loan bid from Real Madrid in January.

Kightly, 23, has set the Championship alight with his displays for Wolves but the club are top of the table and likely to be playing Premier League football anyway next season.

One man who will be staying at Wolves is wide-man Matt Jarvis.

The 22-year-old former Gillingham player has signed a three-and-a-half year contract to stay at Molineux.

Michael Mancienne, who was on loan from Chelsea earlier in the season, is one man who will not come back to the Midlands: Blues boss Luiz Felipe Scolari wants to keep him as cover at Stamford Bridge.

Reda Maher / Eurosport