Press has also linked Shane Long with a £7m move to Sunderland. £7m for a Championship player with only a year left on his contract. Madness.
Oguchi Onyewu has joined Sporting Lisbon on a free transfer. (Would have been an excellent signing for Celtic)
Domenico Criscito has signed for Zenit.
Palermo have signed from Eran Zahavi from Hapoel Tel Aviv. You might remember him as the guy who scored that wonderful overhead kick against Lyon in last seasons CL.
Lille have signed Dimiti Payet from St. Etienne.
Strong suggestions from Italy that Marek Hamsik will move to Napoli who will replace him with Javier Pastore. It has came about after Hamsik said he would love a move to Milan and Napoli’s president has said he would let him leave in an ‘indecent’ offer came in for him. Palermo’s president, Zamparini, has also stated that he would allow Pastore join Napoli if the price was right.
Celtic supporter Dries Mertens along with Kevin Strootman are both close to joining PSV from Utrecht in a combined €13m deal.
Are Palermo not looking for £40m or so for Pastore?
Mourino has offered 50mill for Fabregas
:lol: He’s some messer
Shay Given to Aston Villa
Not the worst move for Ireland to have him playing regularly behind Dunne and Clark.
+1 Gotta love José. Pisses Barca off, ups the price a little and shur, worst case scenario, would it be that bad if they were to get him? 
de Gea has signed for MUFC, believed to be 18M.
Oh he’s just the funniest guy ever is Jose. A gas ticket
Mauro Zamparini has claimed Palermo have received a €50m offer from a foreign club for Javier Pastore.
+1 would be the best move for Villa too.
Though I suspect the vastly overrated Ben Foster or the horrible hun cunt McGregor are higher in McLeishs thoughts.
Man City are close to finalising a €7m move for Alessio Cerci from Fiorentina. This ia very surprising move, Cerci never really got a look in at Roma and wouldn’t even have been a guaranteed starter at Fiorentina last season.
Hmmm, not quite the stellar start to the transfer window I imagined :unsure:
Sunderland have signed Conor Wickham for 9M rising to 12M.
Cerci is a left footed winger who likes to play on the right side, maybe they are moving Adam Johnson on?
Liverpool please,
I’ve heard these rumours before about Johnson but why would they want to do that? he’s not complained, they’re not had problems with him, there’s no squad restrictions, and there’s no shortage of money?
There’s really no reason to move him on unless he and Roberto have had a falling out. Would be very sad to see him go, would like to see him in the UCL.
Adam Rooney has joined Birmingham on a free transfer. Hopefully will be a good move for him. Had a very good season with Inverness last year.
United seem to have done their business early with the signings of Jones, Young and De Gea. Hopefully there is a central midfielder on the way in and a few out like Gibson, Kuszczak and Brown.