Summer European Transfer Window Report 20th July
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Alvaro Morata to join Chelsea
The Real Madrid striker is set to join Chelsea for a fee of 58 million pounds. Morata who won 4 trophies with Real Madrid scored 15 goals in 14 starts winning Madrid 13 points as they won a first league title since 2012 and also scored 3 Champions League goals as Madrid completed their first League and Champions League double since 1958. He also won 5 trophies during a 2-year stay at Juventus.
Javier Hernandez close to joining West Ham
West Ham is ready to activate the 13 million pound release clause of the former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker. Hernandez, who recently became Mexico’s all time goal scorer scored 59 goals in 157 appearances for Manchester United and will be joining West Ham from Bayer Leverkusen.
Manchester City is set to sign Real Madrid defender Danilo for 26.5 million pounds
The defender who signed from Porto for 30 million euros is on his way to Manchester City. He couldn’t carve a place for himself in Madrid as he had Dani Carvajal as his competition. The 26-year-old will be 2nd right back signed by City this window after they signed Kyle Walker from Tottenham for 50 million pounds.
PSG is rumored to have triggered Neymar’s 196 million pound transfer clause
If the rumors are true then all that is needed is for Neymar to agree to the deal, Barcelona will not be able to stop him from leaving. Neymar has scored 105 goals and had 59 assists in 186 games for Barcelona since joining from Santos in 2013. He has also scored 52 goals in 77 games for Brazil making him the 4th highest goal scorer in Brazil’s history. Neymar led his country to their first ever Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He was a joint highest goal scorer in the 2015 UEFA Champions League and was voted the 3rd best player in the world at the 2015 Ballon D’or.
Liverpool has had a 75 million pound bid for Naby Keita turned down by RB Leipzig
The 22-year-old midfielder is said to be very interested in joining the 5-time Champions League champions, but his club is not willing to sell the player who played a key role in their phenomenal season which saw them mount a title challenge.
AC Milan has made an offer for Torino’s Andrea Belotti
The striker, who has a 100 million euro release clause scored 28 goals in 38 games for Torino last season. AC Milan is offering 40 million euros plus M’baye Niang and Gabriel Paletta.
Fernando to join Galatasaray from Manchester City
the Brazilian defensive Midfielder has agreed a 3 year deal with the Turkish side. He will earn 2.2 million pounds per season. Fernando was signed from Porto in 2014 for 12 million pounds and made 101 appearances winning one trophy, the Football League Cup, in 2016.
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Wojciech Szczesny has signed a 4 year deal with Italian giants Juventus
The 27-year-old joined Arsenal in 2006 but was loaned out to Roma in 2015. He kept 14 clean sheets for Roma last season. He cost the club 12 million euros.
Leicester City has signed keeper Eldin Jakupovic from Hull City for an undisclosed fee
The 32-year-old Swiss spent 5 years at Hull City making 53 appearances. He will serve as back up to Kasper Schmeichel. He signed a 3-year contract.
OGC Nice has signed right-back Christophe Jallet from Lyon on a free transfer
The 33-year-old Frenchman spent 3 seasons at Nice and was part of the French team that got to the final of the 2016 European Championship
Joe Hart has joined West Ham on loan
The Manchester City goalkeeper, who spent last season on loan at Torino has now joined London side, West Ham. Hart joined City in 2006 and made 348 appearances winning 2 Premier League titles, 2 Football League titles and an FA Cup.
Sevilla has confirmed the signing of a forward Nolito from Manchester City on a 3-year deal
The 30-year-old joined Manchester City last season for a 13.8 million pound fee. He made just 9 starts scoring 4 goals and making 3 assists.
Lucas Biglia has joined AC Milan from Lazio for a 17 million euro fee on a 3-year contract
The 31-year-old midfielder made 127 appearances for Lazio and scored 16 times. He was a part of the Argentina team that finished as runners up in the 2015 and 2016 Copa America tournaments and the 2014 World Cup.
It has always being a busy transfer in the english premier league for years but thus time, from the way thungs are proceeding, even liverpool is trying to break the bank and make theur highest purchase in the club's histiry for keita. Some of the transfers too seems to be developing into those kind of transfers which will only happen at the last minute of the transfers. Transfers like the Neymar transfer to PSG and the Alexis Sanches move to manchester city and the coutinho move to Barcelona. I really cant wait for the season to start and i will be rooting for my team, manchester united
You missed Alexis Sanchéz to PSG. Seems like he is in Paris today to get a deal done.
What? Oh no!
Neymar at PSG?!? They can win the Champions League with him!
PSG sure has a lot of money to spend. But why would you spend all this money on just one player? Sure, Neymar is a wonderful talent but with this kind of money you can field a quality team. Even with Messi and Neymar on the same team, they didn't win the Champions league last year. I think it's a waste spending it on one player.
PSG has a good team right now, but that won't last forever. If they don't act now, soon they will have to start building another team. Besides, their owner seems fixated on a champions league, but for that, they're going to need a player who can make the difference. That player may well be Neymar, who is pretty much third best in the world right now and in two years he'll likely be second best only behind Messi.
It's a shit ton of money, yes, but If anyone can pay it without it making a dent on their finances it's PSG.
Nevertheless, it is a huge gamble, and it doesn't necessarily mean they'll win it. Just having the best players won't cut it.
You're right, they PSG do have a good team and maybe Neymar will get them over them hump and finally win a Champions League title. If I was Neymar, I would stay at Barca and continue to play alongside with Messi.
Thanks for sharing this with us!