Big shift in power in the blue half of Manchester as Pep Guardiola has taken control of Manchester City ’s recruitment strategy. After wasting a fortune in the transfer market over the last four years, there has been a significant shift in the way City handle deals. NowGuardiola has been given power to identify and […]
Transfers
Real Madrid have had their two transfer window ban on singing new players reduced to one allowing them to make new signings next summer. The Club World Champions had been banned from signing new players during the upcoming January 2017 transfer window and the transfer window next summer, but the Court of Arbitration in Sport […]
James Rodriguez has said he is considering asking for a move away from Real Madrid in the January transfer window. James, who joined for €80 million after the 2014 World Cup, has struggled for playing time in recent months. The 25-year-old Colombia international, under contract until 2018, spent the entirety of Madrid’s Club World Cup […]
Spending totals among Europe’s biggest clubs over the past six years have rocketed, with the threat of Financial Fair Play doing little to deter the richest in their quest for dominance. Cristiano Ronaldo’s £80 million move to Real Madrid from Manchester United in 2009 was surpassed by Gareth Bale’s £86m transfer to the same club […]
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has admitted he might have to reconsider his Arsenal future in a bid to play first-team football. The England international has failed to play more than 30 games in the Premier League in any of his five full seasons at the Emirates. While he has featured six times in the league this season, […]
Spending money does make a difference, it seems, as two of Arsenal’s big-money summer signings helped the Gunners into the fourth round of the league cuo. Granit Xhaka and Lucas Perez, £47 million worth of talent, scored either side of half-time to set up a routine win for Arsenal ahead of their crunch derby against […]
Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have lost their appeals to FIFA against one-year transfer bans for breaking rules protecting underage players. FIFA said on Thursday that the Madrid clubs are blocked from registering new players in the next two transfer windows – winter and summer in 2017. The FIFA appeals committee dismissed challenges filed by […]
A year Real Madrid fans were furious at President Florentino Pérez for bumbling the David de Gea transfer saga, failing to sign Spanish No.1 because of fax machine issues. Fast forward 12 months and this summer’s transfer window was surprisingly quiet, especially with the impending transfer ban for both Atletico and Real Madrid. Real Madrid’s […]
Despite leading the Premier League in net transfer spend over the past five seasons, Manchester City’s transfer approach has had a rather slapdash feel to it. That is not the case this summer where Pep Guardiola can be as happy with his club’s business as José Mourinho is with his at Manchester United. Manchester City […]