Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that the £80m that Real Madrid paid us for Cristiano Ronaldo was a bargain. He has finally won the league with them this season, having won just one trophy in his first two years in Madrid.

Ronaldo has scored 145 goals in 143 games for Real Madrid (33 in 35 in the first year, 53 in 54 in his second and 59 in 54 this season), leading the manager to believe we could have charged a lot more with hindsight.

Given all the previous history between Barcelona and Arsenal it is no wonder that both teams are always trying to score points off each other in the transfer market. It doesn't look like that is going to change in the near future according to a report this morning in the Catalan newspaper Sport. They reveal [.

Everton is in dire need of attacking help, and once again turned to an American to try and help turn things around.

The Toffees have handed Edson Buddle a week-long trial, and will be hoping to find a goal-scoring bargain at a time the squad is struggling to generate goals.

Arsenal fans can relax about bringing in more attacking players apparently. Lukas Podolski has told reporters that Arsenal have got three players for the price of one by bringing him to the Emirates. If this proves true, then the price tag of around £11 million could be the bargain of the season. "In Cologne, I [.

News has broken this morning as the now the transfer window is open, that Alex will speak to QPR about a possible move to Loftus Road as early as today.
Some people have questioned with all our injury problems lately, as to why Alex has been frozen out and not called back into the squad but you have to give credit to AVB for sticking to his guns.

Liverpool has held talks with the representatives of Jaguares striker Jackson Martinez.
The Colombia international, 25, has also attracted strong interest from Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal but his club have raised the price since negotiations were opened in September.
He was originally available for a bargain £5.

Mail: Harry Redknapp: Demba Ba release clause is less than £10million

Newcastle striker Demba Ba could be offloaded for a bargain £5million according to Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp. Ba has scored 15 goals for the Magpies this season.

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Football at the moment is about money isn't it. All we are reading and hearing about at the moment is either player salaries or the size of transfer fee's. Chelsea are now a club that is constantly linked with big money moves in EVERY transfer window as AVB looks to rejuvenate our club out of the shadows of the Mourinho era.

Buy Belgian. Ho.

We talked yesterday about the club allegedly reentering talks with Racing Genk over the transfer of the young Belgium international Kevin De Bruyne. Those talks (gasp) are actually true.

This according to a spokesman for Genk:

Dirk Degraen is in London and the expectation is that it (the transfer of De Bruyne) will be finished this week.

Milan transfer guru Adriano Galliani definitely knows how to work a bargain. Since 1986, when he started his long and prosperous career at the Via Turati, the man known as Uncle Fester has been the man behind the scenes. The one who has engineered deals that have seen so many of the world's best players [.

Good morning and welcome to that most exciting of days. Tuesday.

Sorry, I mean Transfer Deadline Day. The day when all kinds of deals go down. Players are traded like cattle, Premier League slave ships buffet about in the choppy waters scouring for a bargain here or cast-off there, oh, the fun we'll have.

Gary Cahill made his long awaited debut for Chelsea against United last Sunday and I thought he did well and looked calm and composed. OK there is an argument that he was part of a defence that conceded three goals but two of them were penalties and you he is in no way at fault for the Hernandez header.

Garath McCleary, long renowned in player interviews as the most skilful player in the club since his bargain signing from Bromley what feels like a lifetime ago, has started played consistently well. We've seen glimpses of this in the past, epic arcing shots past disbelieving keepers, the odd stepover, occasional mazy runs and so on [.

By Chris Wright

On sale now in the Birmingham City club shop, cardboard 'Chris Hughton replica face masks.' Now you can look like your favourite mild-mannered Championship manager for the rock bottom price of just £3.50! (plus p&p)

Comes with free elastic string and pre-cut that's right, pre-cut eyeholes.

Sometimes, the Kansas City Royals actually spend money. They did so on Friday when they gave Alex Gordon a $37.5 million contract over the next four seasons. Gordan is one of the best players on the Royals and was one of the best hitters in the American League last season.

The contract calls for Gordan to make $6 million this year and then $9 million next year.

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 [.