Monday, August 18, 2014

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Transfer deals - July 2014

Transfer deals - July 2014 The summer transfer window is open until 23:00 BST on Monday, 1 September. Visit our manager ins and outs page for a list of all the current bosses in the top five leagues in England and the Scottish Premiership. To read the day's transfer rumours, visit our gossip column. Biggest British signing so far: Alexis Sanchez - Barcelona to Arsenal for about £35m. Busiest clubs this summer: Shrewsbury Town have signed 16 players. Busiest Premier League clubs: Burnley and Newcastle have signed six players each. 26 JULY Jobi McAnuff [Reading - Leyton Orient] Free Jeroen Tesselaar [Kilmarnock - St Mirren] Free 25 JULY Ben Alnwick [Unattached - Peterborough] Free Koby Arthur [Birmingham - Cheltenham] Loan Calvin Andrew [York - Rochdale] Free Bobson Bawling [Watford - Crawley] Free Bebe [Manchester United - Benfica] £2.4m Jake Cassidy [Wolves - Notts County] Loan Didier Drogba [Galatasaray - Chelsea] Free Ashley Grimes [Bury - Walsall] Free Magaye Gueye [Everton - Millwall] Free George Long [Sheffield United - Oxford] Loan Michael Smith [Bristol Rovers - Peterborough] Undisclosed Matt Taylor [Bradford City - Cheltenham] Free Patrick van Aanholt [Chelsea - Sunderland] Undisclosed

Monday, July 21, 2014

Drogba to chelsea

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Didier Drogba: Chelsea re-sign club legend on free transfer Striker Didier Drogba has re-signed for Chelsea on a one-year deal. The Ivorian, 36, won 10 trophies at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012 and was a free agent after leaving Galatasaray. Manager Jose Mourinho had earlier said the forward "belongs" at Stamford Bridge - but that any deal would be made "in a non-emotional way". Drogba told Chelsea's official site: "It was an easy decision - I couldn't turn down the opportunity to work with Jose again." He said: "Everyone knows the special relationship I have with this club and it has always felt like home to me. "My desire to win is still the same and I look forward to the opportunity to help this team. I am excited for this next chapter of my career."

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Jose Mourinho: Signing Luke Shaw would have "killed" Chelsea

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Jose Mourinho: Signing Luke Shaw would have "killed" Chelsea Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho claims he pulled out of a bid to sign left-back Luke Shaw this summer because his wage demands would have "killed" the club. Shaw became the fourth-most expensive defender in history when Manchester United signed him earlier this month from Southampton for £27m. Mourinho says Shaw's reported wages of around £100,000 a week were too large. "If we pay to a 19-year-old boy what we were being asked for, to sign Luke Shaw, we are dead," said Mourinho. "We would have killed our stability with financial fair play and killed the stability in our dressing room, because when you pay that much to a 19-year-old kid - a good player, fantastic player - but when you pay that amount of money, the next day, we would have had players knocking on our door. "They would have been saying, 'How is it possible I play 200 games for this club, won this and that, yet a 19-year-old comes here and gets more money than I get?"