EPL Transfer News
A round-up of how some of the teams are wheeling and dealing in the summer transfer merry-go-round.
Manchester United
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Want to buy Fernando Torres of Athletico Madrid for £25m but it’s not going well and ManYoo will have to get closer to the £41m buy-out clause as Torres still has two years on his contract.
Want to buy Patrick Vieira from Juventus for £8m. But it very early days on this bid.
Want to Sell Ruud Van Nistelrooy to Real Madrid or Bayern Munich but are hanging on for around £15m. They’re not getting any takers at that price. RvN has 1 year left.
Chelsea
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Surprisingly little – but then Chelsea have already bought Andrei Schevchenko from AC Milan, Michael Ballack from Bayern Munich and Kaloo from Feyenoord.
Could be selling Damien Duff to Tottenham for £11m
Rumoured that owner Roman Abrimovich (not coach Jose Mourinho) wants to buy Roberto Carlos from Real Madrid. IT sounds like dodgy stuff to me.
Liverpool
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The Reds have already bought Craig Bellamy and a series of tabloid rumours have mention players like Juve’s David Trezuguet, Real Madrid’s Guti and Feyenoord’s Dirk Kuyt.
Perhaps the most likely buy is Sevillas Brazillian full back Daniel Alves – but Liverpool do not want to pay the £12m asking price.
Liverpool are also bound up in rasing finances for a potential 60,000 seat stadium at Stanley Park. The latest estimate is €190m and rapidly growing every month.
Arsenal
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Bought Tomas Rosicky from Borussia Dortmund for €8m before the world cup.
Released both Robert Pires and Sol Campbell, and likely to sell Ashley Cole for around £16m who thinks that he is a martyr after being fined for illegally talking to Chelsea last season.
May bid for West Brom’s Curtis Davis but he only moved to West B rom in January for £3m (from Luton) and is now being priced at £10m by over-optimistic owners.
Others
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Bolton have picked up Dietmar Harmann on a free transfer, while veteran striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink will be playing for Charlton Athletic this season.
Tottenham paid £11m for Dimitar Berbatov and another £8m for Didier Zakora so we’ll have to wait and see whether this was good spotting of talent or a waste of money.
Add comment July 17th, 2006