Transfer Window Round-Up

Arsenal

In: Lukas Podolski (£10.5m), Olivier Giroud (£10.5m), Santi Cazorla (£16.75m)

Out: Alex Song (£16.7m), Carlos Vela (£3.3m), Gavin Hoyte (Free transfer), Henri Lansbury (£1.1m), Kyle Bartley (£1.1m), Manuel Almunia (Free transfer), Pedro Botelho (Free transfer), Rhys Murphy (Free transfer), Robin Van Persie (£27m), Benik Afobe (loan), Joel Campbell (loan), Nicklas Bendtner (loan), Ryo Miyaichi (loan), Wellington Silva (loan), Park Chu-Young (loan)

Net Profit: 13m

 

Aston Villa

In: Brett Holman (Free transfer), Joe Bennett (£2.7m), Jordan Bowery (£0.5m), Karim El Ahmadi (£2.46m), Matthew Lowton (£3.3m), Ron Vlaar (£3.34m), Christian Benteke (£7m), Ashley Westwood (£2.2m)

Out: Carlos Cuellar (Free transfer), Connor Taylor (Free transfer), Emile Heskey (Free transfer), James Collins (£2.82m), Jean Il Makoun (loan), Nathan Delfouneso (loan)

Net Spend: £17m

 

Chelsea

In: Cesar Azpilicueta (£7.75m), Eden Hazard (£36.2m), Marko Marin (£7.04m), Oscar (£28.16m), Thorgan Hazard (£0.8m), Victor Moses (£7.83m)

Out: Didier Drogba (Free transfer), Jose Bosingwa (Free transfer), Salomon Kalou (Free transfer), Conor Clifford (loan), Josh McEachran (loan), Kevin de Bruyne (loan), Matej Delac (loan), Romelu Lukaku (loan), Sam Walker (loan), Thorgan Hazard (loan), Ulises Davila (loan), Gael Kakuta (loan), Michael Essien (loan), Romelu Lukaku (loan), Yossi Benayoun (loan)

Net Spend: £86.4m

 

Everton

In: Kevin Mirallas (£6.75m), Steven Naismith (Free transfer), Steven Pienaar (£5m)

Out: Adam Forshaw (Free transfer), Aristote Nsiala (Free transfer), Femi Orenuga (Free transfer), Jack Rodwell (£13.2m), James McFadden (Free transfer), James Wallace (Free transfer), Joseph Yobo (£2.2m), Marcus Hahnemann (Free transfer), Tim Cahill (£1.1m)

Net Profit: £4.7m

 

Fulham

In: Dimitar Berbatov (£4m), Hugo Rodallega (Free transfer), Kieran Richardson (£2.2m), Mladen Petric (Free transfer), Sascha Riether (loan), Ashkan Dejagah (£2.2m)

Out: Andy Johnson (Free transfer), Bjorn Helge Riise (Free transfer), Danny Hoesen (£0.4m), Danny Murphy (Free transfer), Dickson Etuhu (£1.67m), Marcel Gecov (£0.6m), Moussa Dembele (£16.7m), Orlando Sa (Free transfer), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Free transfer), Corey Gameiro (loan), Richard Peniket (loan), Clint Dempsey (£6.6m)

Net Profit: £17m

 

Liverpool

In: Fabio Borini (£11.7m), Joe Allen (£16.7m), Oussama Assaidi (£3.5m), Samed Yesil (£1.1m), Nuri Sahin (£4.4m loan)

Out: Alberto Aquilani (£1.75m), Charlie Adam (£5.4m), Craig Bellamy (Free transfer), David Amoo (Free transfer), Dirk Kuyt (£0.8m), Lewis Hatch (Free transfer), Maxi Rodriguez (Free Transfer), Stephen Darby (Free transfer), Andy Carroll (£1.1m loan)

Net Spend: £28m

 

Manchester City

In: Jack Rodwell (£13.2m), Maicon (£3m), Richard Wright (Free transfer), Scott Sinclair (£6.8m), Javi Garcia (£16m), Matija Nastasic (13m)

Out: Adam Johnson (£11m), Ahmed Benali (Free transfer), Emmanuel Adebayor (£5.5m), Greg Cunningham (Free transfer), Harry Bunn (Free transfer), Nigel de Jong (£3m), Owen Hargreaves (Free transfer), Stuart Taylor (Free transfer), Vladimir Weiss (£1.5m), Roque Santa Cruz (loan), Stefan Savic (Free transfer)

Net Spend: £35m

 

Manchester United

In: Alexander Buttner (£4.4m), Angelo Henriquez (£4.8m), Nick Powell (£6.6m), Robin Van Persie (£27.02m), Shinji Kagawa (£14.08m)

Out: Dimitar Berbatov (£4m), Ji-Sung Park (£2.7m), Matty James (£1.1m), Michael Owen (Free transfer), Oliver Norwood (£0.4m), Paul Pogba (Free transfer), Ritchie de Laet (£1.1m), Tomasz Kuszczak (Free transfer), Ben Amos (loan), Fabio (loan), John Cofie (loan), Reece Brown (loan), Sean McGinty (loan)

Net Spend: £47m

 

Newcastle United

In: Curtis Good (£0.4m), Gael Bigirimana (£1.1m), Romain Amalfitano (Free transfer), Vurnon Anita (£7.4m)

Out: Alan Smith (Free transfer), Danny Guthrie (Free transfer), Fraser Forster (£2.2m), Jeff Henderson (Free transfer), Leon Best (£3.3m), Peter Lovenkrands (Free transfer), Samuel Adjei (Free transfer), Tamas Kadar (Free transfer), Jeff Henderson (Free transfer)

Net Spend: £3.4m

 

Norwich City

In: Alexander Tettey (£1.3m), Jacob Butterfield (Free transfer), Mark Bunn (£1.1m), Michael Turner (£1.6m), Robert Snodgrass (£2.8m), Sebastien Bassong (£2.6m), Steven Whittaker (Free transfer), Javier Garrido (loan)

Out: Aaron Wilbraham (Free transfer), Adam Drury (Free transfer), Andrew Crofts (£0.3m), Josh Dawkin (Free Transfer), Matt Ball (Free transfer), Zak Whitbread (Free transfer), Daniel Ayala (loan), James Vaughan (loan), Tom Adeyemi (loan)

Net Spend: £9.2m

 

Queens Park Rangers

In: Fabio (loan), Andy Johnson (Free transfer), Esteban Granero (£3.9m), Ji-Sung Park (£2.7m), Jose Bosingwa (Free transfer), Julio Cesar (Free transfer), Junior Hoilett (Free transfer), Robert Green (Free transfer), Ryan Nelsen (Free transfer), Samba Diakite (£3.5m), Stephane Mbia (Undisclosed fee), Sam Magri (Free Transfer)

Out: Fitz Hall (Free transfer), Patrick Agyemang (Free transfer), Elvijs Putnins (Free transfer), Akos Buzsaky (Free transfer), Paddy Kenny (£440k), Danny Gabbidon (Free transfer), Rowan Vine (Free transfer), Jay Bothroyd (loan), Tommy Smith (£335k), Matthew Connolly (£555k), Peter Ramage (Free transfer), Heidar Helguson (Free transfer), Danny Shittu (Free transfer), Lee Cook (Free transfer), Joey Barton (loan), Bruno Perone (loan), Samba Diakite (loan)

Net Spend: £16.7m

 

Reading

In: Garath McCleary (Free transfer), Adrian Mariappa (£3.3m), Chris Gunter (£2.6m), Pierce Sweeney (Free transfer), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Free transfer), Danny Guthrie (Free transfer), Nicky Shorey (Free transfer), Stuart Taylor (Free transfer)

Out: Michail Antonio (£792k), Tomasz Cywka (Free transfer)

Net Spend: £5.1m

 

Southampton

In: Nataniel Clyne: (£2.8m), Steven Davis (£880k), Jay Rodriguez (£7.6m), Paulo Gazzaniga (£2.7m), Maya Yoshida (£2.2m), Emmanuel Mayuka (£3.5m), Gaston Ramirez (£13.3m)

Out: Radhi Jaidi (Retired), Lee Holmes (Free transfer), David Connolly (Free transfer, Bartosz Bialkowski (Free transfer)

Net Spend: £33m

 

Stoke City

In: Jamie Ness (Free transfer), Geoff Cameron (£1.8m), Michael Kightly (£3m), Charlie Adam (£5.4m), Maurice Edu (£550k), Steven N’Zonzi (loan)

Out: Andrew Davies (Free transfer), Danny Collins (£500k), Salif Diao (Free transfer), Ricardo Fuller (Free transfer)

Net Spend: £10.4m

 

Sunderland

In: Carlos Cuellar (Free transfer), Louis Saha (Free transfer), Steven Fletcher (£13.3m), Adam Johnson (£11m), Danny Rose (loan)

Out: Cristian Riveros (£264k), Michael Turner (£1.6m), Asamoah Gyan (£6.6m), George McCartney (Free transfer), Craig Gordon (Free transfer), Keiran Richardson (£2.2m)

Net Spend: £13.7m

 

Swansea

In: Chico (£2.2m), Jonathan de Guzman (Undisclosed), Michu (£2.2m), Jamie Proctor (Undisclosed), Itay Shechter (Undisclosed), Kyle Bartley (£1.1m), Ki Sung-Yong (£6.1m), Pablo Hernandez (£6.1m)

Out: Joe Allen (£16.7m), Scott Sinclair (£6.8m)

Net Profit: £5.6m

 

Tottenham

In: Gylfi Sigurdsson (£8.8m), Jan Vertonghen (£11m), Emmanuel Adebayor (£5.5m), Moussa Dembele (£16.7m), Hugo Lloris (£8.8m), Clint Dempsey (£6.6m)

Out: Steven Pienaar (£5m), Ledley King (Retired), Oscar Jansson (Free transfer), Bongani Khumalo (loan), Vedran Corluka (£6.1m), Ryan Nelsen (Free transfer), Niko Kranjcar (£6.1m), Ben Alnwick (Free transfer), Danny Rose (loan), Giovani Dos Santos (£800k), David Button (£550k), Luka Modric (£26m), Sebastien Bassong (£2.6m), Louis Saha (Free transfer), Rafael van der Vaart (£11.4m)

Net Profit: £1m

 

West Bromich Albion

In: Ben Foster (£4.4m), Claudio Yacob (Free transfer), Markus Rosenberg (Free transfer), Romelu Lukaku (loan), Goran Popov (loan)

Out: Nicky Shorey (Free transfer), Joe Mattock (Free transfer), Somen Tchoyi (Free transfer), Lateef Elford-Alliyu (Free transfer), Keith Andrews (Free transfer), Marton Fulop (Free transfer),  Paul Scharner (Free transfer), Paul Downing (Free transfer), Simon Cox (£2.2m)

Net Spend: £2.2m

 

West Ham United

In: Mohamed Diame (Free transfer), Stephen Henderson (£655k), Jussi Jaaskelainen (Free transfer), George McCartney (Free transfer), Modibo Maiga (£5.2m), Raphael Spiegel (Undisclosed), Andy Carroll (£1.1m loan), Alou Diarra (£2.2m), James Collins (£2.8m), Matt Jarvis (£8.3m), Yossi Benayoun (loan), Pablo Barrera (loan)

Out: Freddie Sears (Free transfer), Marek Stech (Free transfer), Frank Nouble (Free transfer), Robert Green (Free transfer), Papa Bouba Diop (Free transfer), Abdoulaye Faye (Free transfer), John Carew (Free transfer), Julien Faubert (Free transfer), Sam Baldock (£1.6m), Nicky Maynard (£2.2m), Ravel Morrison (loan)

Net Spend: £16.5m

 

Wigan

In: Fraser Fyvie (£550k), Ryo Miyaichi (loan), Ivan Ramis (£5.2m), Arouna Kone (£3.3m), Mauro Boselli (loan)

Out: Chris Kirkland (Free transfer), Steve Gohouri (Free transfer), Mohamed Diame (Free transfer), Hugo Rodallega (Free transfer), Hendry Thomas (Free transfer), Conor Sammon (£1.3m), Victor Moses (£7.8m)

Net Spend: £30k

‘Rogue’ Morrison, Usain is insane, Ben-Haim passes the buck and is Fifa doing a cover-up?

Despite the fact that Ravel ‘The Rogue’ Morrison has hardly stepped foot onto a football pitch, everybody who has heard of him knows he is a great talent, a wonderkid, someone with bags of talent. If this is true, then it’s a shame he’s becoming a ‘bad boy’ of football and potentially wasting his gift. Before he drove Manchester United and Sir Alex Ferguson, over the edge and into selling him to West Ham with his behaviour, he had already run up quite the rap sheet:

Fined £600 for throwing his girlfriend’s mobile phone out of a window

Pleaded guilty to two counts of witness intimidation

A Police caution for assaulting his own mother

Repeatedly not showing up to training

and according to Sir Alex Ferguson ‘unrealistic‘ wage demands, it’s not a wonder then that Manchester United did not insert a ‘buy-back’ clause into his deadline day move to West Ham United. However, despite starting a ‘new chapter’ in his career, he landed himself in yet more trouble this time with a homophobic threat on twitter, ‘Go suck out u little faggot your a guy that talks if u see me you try slap me I’m in manchester every week‘ It seemed impossible that such a boy was ever compared to a young Paul Scholes, a player who has ever been held in the highest regard where true professionals are concerned. The troubled midfielder was later fined £7,000 for the comment he made on Twitter and warned over his future conduct. Despite Sam Allardyce taking a chance on the player and spending £650,000 on Morrison the West Ham manager only played him the one time last season in a match against Leeds United in March, he never played again for West Ham United. It appears that the management of ‘The Hammers’ believe this signing could have been a mistake as they are already farming him off for a season to Championship side ‘Birmingham City FC’. This will make two new clubs in a six month period, two different cities, at 19-years-old these are major upheavals and not what anybody would consider a good move for the player. As always I wish the best for footballers, but something tells me he’ll become more Joey Barton than Paul Scholes.

Usain Bolt wants a trial with Manchester United! So do I but it doesn’t mean I have the skills to become a player at one of the biggest clubs in European/World football. At best if Sir Alex Ferguson took the 25-year-old Jamaican on trial and eventually signed him, he would be seen as a great merchandising coup, but just because your fast, does not mean your good with a ball at your feet or have an end product. Usain Bolt told ‘The Sun’, “People think I am joking, but if Alex Ferguson called me up and said: ‘Ok, let’s do this, come and have a trial,’ it would be impossible for me to say no.” Hands up ladies and gentleman, who can say Dennis Rommedahl?

The BBC headline reads, ‘Tal Ben Haim angry at Portsmouth administrators PKF‘ This is an article where Ben Haim pushes the buck on everybody but himself, even going so far as to say, “The blood is very much on their (PKF) hands.” Now I know Ben Haim has apparently lost £2 million over the course of his four year stint at the club and for this all of us millionaires on £36,000 a week salaries should feel sorry for him. However for those of us that aren’t millionaires and make less than he does in a year, let alone a week, I cannot for one see how he and Liam Lawrence believe in anyway that they are the good guys in this. The history of a historic club is about to be liquidated in three days time if they do not agree to either leave the club or sign up to a ‘mere’ £5,000 a week contract. Former owner Balram Chainrai and the ‘Pompey Supporters Trust’ are vying for control of the club and are willing to take it away from liquidation. The 31-year-old defender goes on to say, “The fact is that we are only about £300,000 apart in negotiations. If they want to liquidate the club for that money while they still charge their huge fees then all I can say is that the blood is very much on their hands.” How can he be talking about £300,000 like it was nothing when the club’s employees who put together probably didn’t earn that much either lost their jobs or took massive pay cuts, this isn’t including a lot of local businesses willing to take losses to keep this dying club on it’s feet. Greg Halford, Erik Huseklepp, David Norris, Luke Varney, Aaron Mokoena and Hayden Mullins all left on frees to other football clubs, even Kanu and Dave Kitson left the club forefitting any money that was owed to them by the club. To me this reeks of a selfish, over-paid player wanting to squeeze the last bit of money he can from the club, the Israeli defender could easily play for another club if he wanted too.

I came across a story in ‘The Telegraph‘ and upon the Press Association website, according to Chris Eaton, a former head of security with Fifa, the organisation were looking into a specific incident in the clash between Nigeria and Greece during the Fifa World Cup 2010. However this claim is being vehemently denied by Fifa, a spokesman stated: “We are not conducting any match fixing investigation for 2010 Fifa World Cup matches.” However whilst dismissing the claim, at the end of the statement, the spokesperson went on to say, ‘they are closely monitoring and assisting on-going investigations at member associations level.‘ Now with their former head of security adamant that there are people inside Fifa looking heavily into match-fixing you have to wonder what the on-going investigations may be.

Sad news for Dundee United following their match last Thursday against Dinamo Moscow, in a Europa League qualifier match. United have been charged twice by UEFA for crowd trouble, this after fighting broke out in the ‘Jim McLean’ stand during the 2-2 draw with the Russian side but also when a fan ran on to the pitch to celebrate United’s opening goal. It’s unknown what the Scottish clubs punishment will be for ‘unacceptable conduct’ but it’s very sad when a minor few wreck what is a fantastic occasion for the rest of the clubs loyal supporters.

After all of that (the football world seemed to explode today with news), we are back onto transfers and transfer news.

Chelsea look to be signing Marseille’s right-back, Cesar Azpilicueta who was part of Spain’s rather disappointing Olympic squad. The 22-year-old defender looks to be the perfect replacement for Jose Bosingwa and according to all reports the London-outfit are in advanced talks with Marseille over the transfer.

That isn’t the only piece of Chelsea transfer news tonight as Roberto Di Matteo and Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay have come back to the DW stadium to start up fresh talks with Wigan Chairman Dave Whelan over Victor Moses’ future. The Blues apparently opened up a reported £4million bid earlier this summer which was rejected out of hand, however Whelan has apparently dropped his asking price for the young English winger from £10million to £8.5m

The ‘Richest Club in the World’ have come in to stamp their authority on the transfer market, Sao Paulo have confirmed that Paris Saint Germain are in talks with the Brazilian club over in-demand forward Lucas Moura. Despite Manchester United and Inter Milan already having bid or spoken to the 19-year-old Brazilian, neither have raised the reported £35.75million to sign him. This could be seen as pocket change for PSG’s Qatar owners.

Things appear to be going from bad to worse for Martin O’Neill and Sunderland, with the news that Keiran Richardson, who has only one year left on his contract is desperate to leave the Stadium of Light with the news that West Ham and Queens Park Rangers are interested in the winger. Sunderland shall be looking for a transfer fee of around £3.5m for the player but have already lost Michael Turner to Norwich, Asamoah Gyan to Al-Ain and Nicklas Bendtner has returned to Arsenal after his loan move. The only piece of news of any player coming to the North-East is Wolves striker Steven Fletcher who Sunderland have reportedly upped their transfer bid to £12million for the 25-year-old.

West Bromich Albion have signed their fourth player this transfer window, this time it’s Swedish International Markus Rosenberg, on a three-year-deal after his exit from Werder Bremen this summer.

And finally Santi Cozorla has signed for Arsenal, the 27-year-old attacking midfielder, signed from Malaga for an undisclosed fee, though believed to be in the region of £16million has signed a long-term contract for ‘The Gunners’. He stated that Arsenal’s great squad as his main reason to join the North-London team, “The club has made a big step to sign players to have a better team and meet the expectations of the fans. I’m very happy to be here, Arsenal are a huge club. I hope to win trophies here, that is what I want.” How much longer can Robin Van Persie stand on his soapbox about wanting to leave Arsenal merely for their, ‘lack of ambition’?

 

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