Football transfer news

As we all know, Citizens are trying for a while to sign Inter’s problematic wonderkid Mario Balotelli, but they think that his price is to big. Rumours are saying that City has reduced the price from 30m€ to 25m€ with including Robinho, who doesnt want to return to Manchester, in a deal.

Inter would get 25m€ plus Robinho on loan for 1 year, and then if he fits fine in a team, Inter could buy him from City next year. Inter and Manchester City are playing friendly match today in Philadelphia, so it could happen that this saga will end today or maybe tomorrow.

We will inform you as soon as something happens.

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Cristiano Ronaldo wishes to wear number 7 shirt which was used by Raul. The Real Madrid’s star used to wear this number in Manchester United which was his previous club, presently player wears number 9 in Real Madrid but the team has decided to give Rauls number to Ronaldo.

Ronaldo said, Raul will also feel happy if i would wear number 7 as the player knows about my ability and what i feel about it. Ronaldo is also confident about newly appointed coach Jose Mourinho, he said the coach is the best and players in the team are also at their best level.

After Portuguese teams disappointing performance at the South Africa 2010 World Cup finals, all are very confident of playing well at 2010-11 season. we are very eager to start the season and we are also not worried about our rival Barcelona and i am sure we will do better during the season and win, he added.

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Vfb Stuttgart announced that Sami Khedira is no longer their player. Khedira will sign with Real Madrid for 5 years. Stuttgart will get between 10 and 14 million euros. He will officialy sign after he passes his medical test. Khedira joined Stuttgart in 1995, when he was 8 years old and now 15 years later he became a Real Madrid player.

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After Roy Hodgson left Fulham for Liverpool, Fulham already found the replacement. New coach is Mark Hughes former Manchester city manager.

“Last two seasons under Roy Hodgson were two most successfull seasons in this clubs history. I am sure that with few reinforcements in our squad we can continue on this level,” said Mark Hughes to the english press.

Now that City is buying players like there is now tommorow and with Hughes saying that he will bring some new players, it could happen that Hughes will bring some of his former players to Fulham, especcialy those, who will not be happy with their status in Manchester City.

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A surprising news came from Portugal this morning. We found that Bruno Alves, the captain of Porto has signed with Zenit for a fee of €23m. Zenit also signed the serbian international and former Udinese defender, Aleksandar Lukovi?.

Alves was playing for Porto since 2001, and now 9 years later he is leaving the most sucessfull portuguese club in the last decade.

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-Inter offered €15m + Sulley Muntari for Javier Mascherano. We are waiting for Liverpool’s response.

-Khedira almost a galactico. Sami and Real reached an agreement, now Biancos have to offer enough money to Stuttgart and Sami will be free to go.

-Maicon is very close to Real Madrid, but if things with Maicon dont turn out as Real is expecting, they already have B plan. In worst case scenario they will try to get Thiago Silva from AC Milan.

-Maradona got sacked.

-Diego said he will stay in Juventus.

-Berlusconi: “There will be no more summer signings”

-Maxi Rodriguez could return to Spain, Liverpool are meanwhile trying to sign Luke Young from Aston Villa.

-Marcos Senna said, he is happy to hear, that Barcelona is interested in signing him.

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Real and Inter had agreed on a fee for Maicon’s transfer.  Only details are now separating Maicon to reunite with former coach at Inter, Jose Mourinho.

Balotelli on the other side, was also very close to Manchester City and he still is, but the negotiations are still undergoing, it is likely that he will sign with Citizens, but for now he is staying in Milano.

According to Gazzetta, possible replacement for Balotelli is Aguero. Inter is also very close to sign Mascherano form Liverpool.

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Diego Maradonas staying as Argentina coach is in questions after he met the federation president Julio Grondona. According to AFA & its president it is not been finalized yet about Maradona continuing as coach.

According to AFA reports Maradona had given his interests of taking care of the team, after the meeting the president had informed Maradona that this matter will be discussed with the members of the executive committee and will be decided. There are also reports that the assistant to Maradona was criticized very much after the loss at the World Cup quarter final, but the coach wants his entire staff to be with him.

If Maradona steps away, Sergio Batista the coach from the Under-20 team will take over Argentina in the upcoming match against Ireland on August 11. The team is yet to be announced, Cherquis Bialo said there are no possibilities of Maradona stepping away from coach as there are no other options, but there is back up only during emergencies.

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Sami Khedira, the german international, has only one year left on his contract with Stuttgart, and then he can leave as a free agent. So it is obvious that Stuttgart will sell him, but they are saying that transfer will happen, if only Real pays the right price.

“We would like to extend Sami Khedira’s contract, but it is up to him. We will hold talks in the coming days. If we do sell Khedira, the income will be invested in new players, but not on a like-for-like replacement. We don’t need that – we have three players in our squad who can play in his position. Certainly there will be some more players arriving though,” said Fredi Bobic, former Borussia Dortmund player who is now the new sporting director of VFB Stuttgart.

Rumuors from Germany are saying that it’s just a matter of days, until Khedira will become part of Jose’s Mourinho squad.

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After a meeting with Roy Hodgson and Javier Mascherano on Monday, Liverpool announced that Javier Mascherano can leave, if club (Inter) offers the right amount of money to Liverpool.

“Last year, he was asked to stay on for one more year, he agreed, so now it is time for him to go. It was all very pleasant and it is now a question of the two clubs who are interested in him making an acceptable offer to Liverpool,” said Roy Hodgson after the meeting.

It looks like that its just a matter of time before Mascherano signs for Inter, and with this, Liverpool will lose first and maybe not last of their main players.

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