Sentence examples for fend off interest from inspiring English sources

Barcelona are ready to offload the Brazilian they signed for £36.5m and Everton are believed to be interested, but will have to fend off interest from Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande, who are rumoured to have bid £45m.

How long, though, before Pannu, in Yeung's absence, has to fend off interest in their manager?

Indeed, Mr. Bush would have to fend off interest groups, like the health care industry, that would demand he look out for them.

The Reds were said to be battling it out with Arsenal and Tottenham Hotpsur for the left-back's signature, but the Foxes are now ready to increase his £800-per-week pay packet and fend off interest.

Elsewhere in Spain, Atlético Madrid are hitching their skirts in the direction of Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Javier Pastore, but will have to fend off interest from Inter to get him.

Chelsea are also after Milan midfielder Franck Kessie, but will have to fend off interest from Tottenham Hotspur if they are to land the £40m-rated Ivory Coast international.

The government contractor, which employs 45,000 people in the UK and manages crucial public services such as hospital cleaning and parts of the probation service, is already fending off interest in lucrative contracts from peers including Mitie and Serco.

Arsène Wenger also wants to sign the Barcelona forward Alexis Sánchez and is hopeful of fending off interest from Liverpool for the Chilean.

Rummenigge also fended off interest in striker Mario Mandzukic from Arsenal by claiming that the Croatian striker will not be leaving the Allianz Arena, even though Robert Lewandowski will join the club in the summer when his contract with Borussia Dortmund expires.

Equally deserving of recognition are Heerenveen's right-winger Roy Beerens, the most underrated player in the Netherlands; Groningen defender Andreas Granqvist, who is fending off interest from Bayern Munich and Sevilla and perhaps even Ola Toivonen, the new PSV striker whose awesome ability is, for now, stunted by inconsistency.

Even as aides are still closing his campaign headquarters and just beginning to assemble a governing team, they are fending off interest from foreign governments eager to take the measure of the next president and trying to avoid tying him to the departing administration.