With the SPANISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE title in one pocket REAL MADRID travelled to the Middle-East to fill the other pocket with 3M€ with a "Friendly-Exhibition" game against the KUWAIT National Football Team. CR7 The Spanish Club took 22 players & all 22 played during the 90th mins with 2 distinct line-ups in each half.

Newcastle signed Yohan Cabaye last summer, for the amount in his release clause in his contract which was a meager €5M. Yohan Cabaye great first season on Tyneside At the time that translated to about £4.3M, and he became another bargain buy for Newcastle, and we hope to see more of those type of deals [.

We have been linked today with Colombian winger Juan Pablo Pino, who is currently on the books of Galatasaray. Juan Pablo Pino - Columbian International winger In July of 2010, Galatasaray announced that Pino had joined the team on a three-year contract, for a transfer fee of €3M, from French club Monaco, which is around [.

Mars is set to launch a £4.3m multimedia marketing campaign to promote its official partnership with the England football team during UEFA Euro 2012.

Top Spurs story in the news today comes courtesy of the Evening Standard who claim that the club's Chairman Daniel Levy is preparing to make Harry Redknapp a personal offer he can't refuse while throwing in a £50m transfer fund to strengthen the squad for next season.

The article by James Olley is an interesting read but this is probably the essence of it,

"Redknapp's contract with Spurs expires at the end of next season and negotiations have begun on a new four-year deal on an increased salary from his present £3m a year before bonuses.

Chelsea fire Andre Villas Boas as Abramovich backs player power - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Roman Abramovich has sacked André Villas-Boas after a string of poor results that has left Chelsea fifth in the league table. Saturday's 1-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion left Chelsea three points behind Arsenal with 11 games to go.

One of the tricks of the transfer rumour mills seems to be to find a big money potential signing and then follow that up with a cheaper alternative should the main target fall through.

Just like Eden Hazard, Omar El Kaddouri is 21 years old. He also plays in midfield and he is a Belgian international – albeit at under 21 level for now.

Dutch Coach Guus Hiddink has signed an 18 month contract with cash strapped Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala. Makhachkala are expected to make the official announcement within the next 24 hours however, sources close to the club have revealed that the contract as very 'lucrative'.

Reports in his native Holland suggest that Hiddink is expected to earn €10 million-a-year (£8.

List of football clubs around the world according to revenue, prepared by Deloitte.

Top 20 clubs in 2010-11 Deloitte Football Money League.
1. Real Madrid (£433m)
2. FC Barcelona (£407m)
3. Manchester United (£331.4m)
4. Bayern Munich (£290.3m)
5.

Spanish club Real Madrid has for the seventh consecutive year topped the football rich list this is according to auditing and financial advisory firm Deloite &Touche. Madrid posted a turnover of £433m for the 2010/2011 season to finish first ahead of arch rivals and fellow Spanish side Barcelona who came in second with revenues of £407m.

Another young SPANISH FOOTBALL pearl leaves for foreign shores to build upon his talents & hopefully begin a solid Football career. This time English Premier League Club MANCHESTER CITY has paid 3M€ to REAL MADRID for POZO . The U-17 Spanish International is in England but cannot play due to the fact that he is only 15 years old & needs to wait until he reaches 16 years according to English FA

Here we go again. Last day of the transfer window and we're all waiting for at least a striker after offloading Vokes as a loan and sold Keogh. Surely 3M must bring in at least one striker, and hopefully one with som class and skills?! Well, that's very important of course, but of more immediate [...

PSG has already pulled the plug, and it appears Inter is doing the same.

"Inter have recovered their champions and there is no need to have him or another, even if Tevez remains a great champion."

City does not want Milan's loan deal. For now it appears Argentinian want-away will remain at the Etihad where with each passing day of not playing having already cost him £9.

There is a report in the Daily Mirror that Newcastle's opening bid for Watford center-back, 25 year-old Adrian Mariappa, was £750K. Adrian Miappa first bid was £750K That was the first offer, and the reports suggest that a later bid was made and was anywhere from £2M to £3M, but it's more likely to be around £2M and that [.

The Sunday Sun is reporting today that Newcastle will be signing a defender from the Championship within the next week. Adrian Mariappa Newcastel will pay £3M for this player It seems that Newcastle are after 25-year-old Watford central defender Adrian Mariappa, and the club are willing to pay £3M for him.

Papa Babacar Diawara (alias BABÁ ) has been signed in this "Transfer Winter Market" by Spanish Football Club SEVILLA FC from the Portugueses Football League. The player signs over from the "SuperLiga" & Club MARITIMO DE FUNCHAL & has scored 10 goals this season which has caught the eye of Sevilla FC.

Liverpool is reportedly considering a move for Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud as they bid to solve their profligacy in front of goal.
The Reds have managed just 1.2 goals per Premier League game this season, only scoring more than two goals in a match on two occasions so far.
Their top league goalscorer, Luis Suarez, only has five goals, and is of course currently serving an eight match suspension.

Twitter (Follow me on @_Wrighty7) and the interweb is buzzing like a bumble bee today that Chelsea man Salomon Kalou could be on the move to Arsenal.
Now I believe this is the sort of deal that will be like Marmite to Gooners. Some will like it, and some will hate it.
I happen to think that Kalou would be a very good signing for the club.

Newcastle may lodge a £3M bid for Sheffield United's outstanding 18 year-old center-back, Harry Maguire. Harry Maguire outstanding young 18 year-old center-back That was a story in the Sun late last month, and certainly the youngster looks an excellent player in the making, and already stands 6'3″ tall, and is still growing.

Newcastle have today been linked with Chelsea's Brazilian International center-back Alex, but we wonder if there's any truth to the story. Alex - experienced Brazilian International available for £3M? Certainly it didn't take long for somebody to link the transfer listed Alex with Newcastle, whether it's actually true or not.

Newcastle have today been linked with Chelsea's Brazilian International center-back Alex, but we wonder if there's any truth to the story. Alex - experienced Brazilian International available for £3M? Certainly it didn't take long for somebody to link the transfer listed Alex with Newcastle, whether it's actually true or not.

News in the People today that Newcastle are set to sign 19 year-old Crystal Palace striker/winger Wilfried Zaha. Wilfried Zaha -- Crystal Palace winger/striker The young England U19 player, who was born in the Ivory Coast, is also interesting Stoke City and the transfer fee is said to be £3M. Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman turned down an approach [.

News in the Daily Mail today that Newcastle will again go after Dutch International left back Erik Pieters in January. Erik Pieters to arrive in January? The news is the Newcastle are hoping to seal a £3M deal for the Dutchman in January, but we're not sure if this is just a made-up story because [.

After Roberto Mancini made it clear that Argentine striker Carlos Tevez would never play for City as long as he was still the coach, the 27 year old has surprisingly emerged as a key transfer target for Italian giants AC Milan.

Tevez however, will not be sold cheap and if the unconfirmed rumours doing the rounds are to be believed, then Milan will have to part with £25 million to bring the striker to the San Siro.

A look at the Liverpool's goals for column, despite spending £57.3m on two strikers, doesn't make the happiest reading for Liverpool fans. Profligate against Stoke, unable to finish off Manchester United and a draw at home with Norwich means we currently sit ten points behind City and have scored the least goals of clubs in the top six.

He's come a long way since he joined the ranks of Newcastle United as a £10.3M Centre Back under the control of Kevin Keegan. It's probably debateable whether Keegan even wanted him in, but I don't remember there being too much dissent when he transferred. We all knew of him through his days playing for [.

Newcastle fans have not seen much at all of new £5.3M signing from Inter-Milan, Italian International Davide Santon. Davide Santon plays tonight for the Reserves And the good news is that he knows he will have to fight for his place in the Newcastle first team, and he seems only too willing to do just that.

Well that's what we are to believe if you read this headline from the article posted here which caught my attention last night.
I do not believe for one second that Roman Abramovich has "ordered" AVB to play the kids or has told him to do it in a way the press are making out at all.
For me it would be in his remit for when he took the job.

Well that's what we are to believe if you read this headline from the article posted here which caught my attention last night.
I do not believe for one second that Roman Abramovich has "ordered" AVB to play the kids or has told him to do it in a way the press are making out at all.
For me it would be in his remit for when he took the job.

So the dust has settled on the summer transfer of August 2011 and while it was a busy day at Spurs Lodge, was it a satisfactory one?

Five of our fringe players have left the club, albeit two are on loan with seemingly no future at the Lane and while Harry Redknapp said at the weekend that fresh faces were needed, we only ended up with one – Scott Parker who arrived from West Ham.

With several players still linked with Spurs as we head towards the last 24 hours of this transfer window, it looks like being a far busier day for Tottenham than it was 12 months ago.

Meanwhile, there is much hope that some of the deadwood will be off the books and the first to leave could be Wilson Palacios with news of an £8m deal to Stoke expected very shortly.

Arsenal are on the verge of signing South Korean forward Park Chu-Young.

Gunners officials have confirmed to BBC Sport, that the club will be paying £3m to AS Monaco for the 26-year old although the figure could eventually rise to £5m.

Chu-Young is the captain of the South Korean national team, and is able to play on either wing and up front.

Arsenal are on the verge of signing South Korean forward Park Chu-Young.

Gunners officials have confirmed to BBC Sport, that the club will be paying £3m to AS Monaco for the 26-year old although the figure could eventually rise to £5m.

Chu-Young is the captain of the South Korean national team, and is able to play on either wing and up front.

Arsenal have hi-jacked Lille's deal to sign Monaco striker Park Chu-Young.

Park was due to undergo the second part of a medical with Lille after completing the first part yesterday, the thing is during that time Arsenal seem to have had a bid accepted by Monaco and they in turn granted Wenger permission to speak to the player.

1992-93: Blackburn £8.11m (4th); ­champions Manchester United £2.3m.

1993-94: Blackburn £8.65m (2nd); champions Manchester United £3.75m.

1994-95: Everton £10.9m (15th); champions ­Blackburn £6.8m.

1995-96: Newcastle £14.

New Liverpool signing Jose Enrique is determined to make the most of his opportunity to play at a "big" club and has set his sights on winning the Premier League.
The Spanish left-back completed his £6 million move from Newcastle in time to be considered for today's season-opener at home to Sunderland.

Liverpool complete £6m signing of José Enrique from Newcastle United

• Spaniard says he is fit enough for Sunderland match • Defender says he 'hopes to win things here' Liverpool have completed the signing of the Spanish defender José Enrique from Newcastle United.

" I'm so out of here!"

There are reports emerging out of Spain that Arsenal have agreed to Barca's offer of £25.4m for Fabregas with an additional £5.3m to be paid in performance related bonuses.

Cesc does not go untouched however as he pays his way out with a contribution of £4.

Newcastle were hoping they could loan out their former captain, Alan Smith, to his former club Leeds United for next season, but that will not happen. Alan Smith his high wages are preventing a loan move to Leeds It turns out that Leeds cannot afford to pay the £1M of Alan's £3M in wages, [...]

Agent of Porto defender Alvaro Pereira invites £26.3m bid for the reported Liverpool & Chelsea target

According to the player's representative, the talented left-back could leave the Portuguese giants before the transfer window shuts if a club matches his release clause

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