Bolton chase World Cup striker Jancker

As Carsten Jancker celebrated his World Cup call-up for Germany yesterday alongside Liverpool's Dietmar Hamann and Tottenham's Christian Ziege, the possibility was raised that he might face them in the Premiership for Bolton next season.

The Germany coach, Rudi Völler, produced no surprises, with over half the 23 players from the new Bundesliga champions, Borussia Dortmund, the European Cup finalists, Bayer Leverkusen, or Bayern Munich. With 64 caps, Ziege is the most experienced player in the party, while alongside him, Oliver Bierhoff and Hamann, are the blossoming talents of Michael Ballack and Sebastian Deisler.

Ballack has played a pivotal role in Bayer's season while Deisler's excellent performances for Hertha Berlin have resulted in a summer switch to Bayern. He has been out with injury, but came on as a substitute in Saturday's game against Bayer Leverkusen.

Sam Allardyce said Jancker is on his hit-list for next season. The Bolton manager, who has already signed Youri Djorkaeff and Fredi Bobic on short-term deals, said: "We were offered Jancker before the deadline and that shows Bolton's name is now attractive to foreign players.

"We will probably go down the same road of loan signings next season, although there will also be money to spend. If we buy, it will be in the younger category."

Glenn Hoddle is ready to bid for Mallorca's Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o. The Tottenham manager was a surprise visitor at the Real Madrid v Mallorca match on Sunday to see the pacy African. Eto'o and his team-mates put up a stirring display to earn a draw and keep their survival hopes alive.

Hoddle is preparing an offer for Eto'o, voted the third best African player in the world this year, and he could get his target for around £7m.

The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has turned down an approach by a Premiership club for Phil Neville. The versatile defender is not being allowed to leave despite the chance of the club making around £5m from a deal. Neville will not upset his manager by asking for a move – and that is one of the main reasons Ferguson is standing by him.

The president of Europe's football governing body, Lennart Johansson, yesterday called for Sepp Blatter to step down as the Fifa president, to help restore the reputation of world football's governing body.

"He must go for the sake of Fifa, for the sake of Fifa's integrity," Johansson said as the repercussions of general secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen's report to Fifa's executive committee continued to reverberate. Zen-Ruffinen presented a 21-page dossier to an emergency meeting of the executive committee on Friday detailing what he said were possible criminal acts by Blatter during his four-year term.

Blatter said he believed he would still be re-elected at the Fifa Congress on 29 May in Seoul and that Zen-Ruffinen's report was "full of errors".

Blatter is standing against Issa Hayatou of Cameroon at the election in three weeks.

Zen-Ruffinen has given Blatter a week to reply before he presents his file, representing "just the tip of the iceberg", to the Swiss penal authorities.