Savage ready to follow Izzet exit from Leicester

Robbie Savage is planning to leave Leicester City if the Filbert Street side are relegated from the Premiership.

The Welsh international has stayed loyal to the club, signing two new contracts, but will seek a move if Dave Bassett is unable to pull off the increasingly unlikely escape act. Savage should have no shortage of interest and is keen not to be left behind as his midfield team-mate Muzzy Izzet is allowed to move.

Izzet was in Middlesbrough last night discussing a £6m switch to the Riverside. He could also be joined at Boro by Ghana's Dereck Boateng, the Panathinaikos striker.

Savage should be valued at around £5m, which would recoup some of the lost revenue that relegation would bring.

Leicester will also look to sell other high wage-earners this summer should they go down, with goalkeeper Ian Walker a target for Manchester City.

Arsenal are to sign the Ivory Coast international, Habib Touré, following a trial period. The 20-year-old utility player has played in two reserve fixtures. Touré, who joins the Gunners from ASEC Abidjan for an undisclosed fee, has been in the Ivory Coast side since 2000 and recently featured in the African Nations' Cup.

Millwall's Tim Cahill will consider legal action against Fifa if the game's world governing body fails to overturn a ruling which stops him representing the Republic of Ireland. The Australian-born midfielder, who has an English father, a Samoan mother and Irish and Scottish grandparents, wants to play for Mick McCarthy's team at this year's World Cup. However, Fifa insists he cannot represent another nation after playing for Western Samoa in two Under-20 World Cup qualifying matches when he was aged 14.

Gianluca Vialli, the Watford manager, has placed five internationals – Espen Baardsen, Marcus Gayle, Pierre Issa, Allan Nielsen and Ramon Vega – on the transfer list.

Detectives probing the financial affairs of Third Division Hull City yesterday arrested two people, a 34-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, in connection with an investigation into the club's finances between November 1998 and February 2001.

The directors of Halifax Town have told prospective new owners to offer a "six-figure sum" for the club after putting the Third Division side up for sale.

St Mirren are considering selling Love Street to help ease their £1.7m debt. The Scottish club are likely to off-load players first but may sell the ground that has been their home since 1894. Saints hope to sell their defender Sergei Baltacha, a trialist at Southampton who is also said to be interesting Ipswich.

Ashley Ward is in talks with Barnsley about a move from Bradford City back to Oakwell. The striker has been told he can leave on a free transfer.

Sheffield Wednesday are in talks with the highly-rated defender Craig Armstrong after Huddersfield Town accepted their £100,000 offer.

Sir Rodney Walker has advised the board of Leicester City plc he intends to stand down as chairman in August.

Nandor Hidegkuti, part of Hungary's "Golden Team" of the 1950s, has died in hospital from heart problems. He was 80. Hidegkuti scored a hat-trick in Hungary's 6-3 demolition of England at Wembley in 1953.