Soccer City FC will post on newsworthy items regarding Real Madrid's '09-10 transfer season(s). Please post tips, links, and leads in our comments section so that we can add your findings to our listing.

• A.C. Milan and Real Madrid: Transfer Rumours Eden Hazard Off To A Top Club?

According to Spanish Football and Sports -- Chelsea FC Halts In Last Minute Real Madrid And Kaka
Related -- Chelsea: Transfer Rumours 2009-10 Coverage Center, Real Madrid: Transfer Rumours 2009-10 Coverage Center, and A.C. Milan: Transfer Rumours 2009-10 Coverage Center

SoccerLens with a fantastic report on this recent development -- Real Madrid Firesale: Sneijder, Huntelaar, Robben, Diarra, Van der Vaart and Ruud for sale
Will City sign any of Real's Dutch contingent?

Juan Francisco Martínez Modesto, or simply, Nino, has taken Spain's second division by storm this year. He has guided CD Tenerife, a Canary Islands based club, to the edge of promotion. The last time Nino was in La Liga, with Levante UD, he only managed one goal. Will Nino continue to score should CD Tenerife qualify for the 2009-10 La Liga season?

Soccer City FC will post on newsworthy items regarding Espanyol's '09-10 transfer season(s). Please post tips, links, and leads in our comments section so that we can add your findings to our listing.

• Celtic - Espanyol: Transfer Rumours -- Shunsuke Nakamura To La Liga?

Former Celtic midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura looks ready to move to Spanish club Espanyol after negotiations with Japan's Yokohama Marinos faltered.
According to News of the World, he will sign a two-year contract with the Barcelona-based outfit estimated at £23,000-a-week with image rights included.

Spanish radio station Cadena Ser is reporting Kaka has signed a €65million (£56million) deal with Real Madrid. Kaka's camp has countered noting that while an approach is certain, the deal is not.
Kaka's father and agent, Bosco Leite, suggested that a deal was agreed following discussions between Real president Florentino Perez and AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani with Leite in attendance.

Confederations Cup hero Luis Fabiano has asked his club, Sevilla, to ok his transfer to A.C. Milan after the Italian giants sent an offer to the La Liga squad.
Fabiano's agent, Jose Fuentes, claimed that Milan made an official offer for the striker only days ago.
Fabiano hopes that Sevilla will accept the offer; speaking with ABC:

"I know that Milan have made an offer and I would like for Sevilla to consider it.

Wow, that would be rather interesting, The Independent noting that Real Madrid is ready to make a €30 million offer for the defender, Read On -- Real Madrid Target Manchester United Defender Vidic - Reports via Goal.com
Related -- Real Madrid: Transfer Rumours 2009-10 Coverage Center and Manchester United: Transfer Rumours 2009-10 Coverage Center

Newly-promoted Serie A club Livorno have completed the homecoming addition of former Amaranto favourite Cristiano Lucarelli from Parma on-loan for the entire season. The 33-year-old veteran striker returns to the Tuscan vicinity where he netted an impressive 92 goals between 2003 and 2007. Read On -- Lucarelli Leaves Parma To Rejoin Liverno via Goal.

Soccer City FC has been covering this for some days now -- Is Celtic's Nakamura Leaving? -- and it appears, according to the Japanese international's agent, that Nakamura could leave Celtic for La Liga side RCD Espanyol.
The free-kick specialist is free to leave Celtic next month as his current contract runs out.

Celtic accompany the mounting queue to acquire Venezuelan attacking midfielder Juan Arango, one of La Liga's most regular and impressive performers, from destitute Real Mallorca.

Attention has been widely acknowledged from Stoke City, Borussia Monchengladbach and Trabzonspor, but do the Bhoys possess the financial clout to meet Mallorca's €4m valuation?

The 26-year-old product of Barcelona's youth system flourished this season for Deportivo.
2008-09 La Liga stats follow -- 29 games started, 5 substitutions, 7 goals, 5 assists, 66 shots, 22 shots on goal.
A great shots on goal to goal percentage for the attacking midfielder as nearly one out of every three shots on goal found the score sheet.

Atletico Madrid have signed goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo from Real Valladolid on a four-year contract for a fee in the region of 5.5 million euros and the loan of striker Diego Costa for one season.

One of the many misconceived notions lingering around in the game is the interpretation that persisting with a young, relatively inexperienced, occupier of the goalkeeper gloves could be detrimental to both the player and the club.

Birmingham City may make a £1.5m bid for Espanyol's 24-year-old central midfielder Jordi Gomez. Gomez spent the 2008-09 campaign on loan at Swansea City and proved himself capable in the U.K.
Wigan Athletic is certainly also a possibility because Swansea's former manager Roberto Martinez is now at the JJB Stadium according to The People.

The 23-year-old Espanyol midfielder is a product of the club's famed youth system. Below is his first goal from last week's match against Almeria.
Via YouTube