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Just a summary of transfers within the past week: Blaise Matuidi (Paris St-Germain to Juventus) Gabriel Paulista (Arsenal to Valencia) Jese Rodriguez (Paris St-Germain to Stoke) (Loan) Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City to Everton) Gareth Barry (Everton to West Brom) Sofiane Feghouli (West Ham to Galatasaray) In Week 2 of the EPL, Manchester united grabbed a well deserved victory against Swansea city and maintained their lead at the top of the table. Liverpool grabbed a win against Crystal Palace, while Arsenal lost to Stoke City. Tomorrow, Sunday, August 20, Tottenham takes on Chelsea. In La liga, Barcelona takes on Real Betis while Deportivo La Coruna takes on Real Madrid.

The long wait is finally over. The EPL is back! Eight games has gone down so far, with the result confirming Wins for Arsenal, Burnley, Huddersfield, Everton, West Bromwich Albion and Manchester City. Watford, Liverpool, Southampton, and Swansea City settled for Draws, while Leicester City, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Stoke City, AFC Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion settled for Losses. Biggest Win so far goes to the newly promoted Huddersfield who beat Crystal Palace with a three goal margin, and tops the EPL table. They would remain top if the results from Manchester United vs West ham and Tottenham vs Newcastle games doesn't produce any higher Win range. Both games comes up tomorrow, August 13. ********** A summary of some completed transfers within the week: Friday, August 11: Bruno Martins Indi (Porto to Stoke) £7m Lewis Baker (Chelsea to Middlesbrough) Loan Thursday, August 10: Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Manchester United to Crystal Palace) Loan Wednesday, August 9...

Its been an interesting week in the world of football. For the past few days, and many days to come, the world will be talking about Neymar Jr. Photo Credit: metro.co.uk 25 years old Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior became the world most expensive football player after Paris Saint-Germain made a payment of €222 million (about £200 million) to Barcelona, which is the value of the release clause in Neymar's contract. The deal was completed on Thursday, August 3, and would keep him at PSG till 2022. Many thought it was all rumours till it became official. The deal makes Neymar Jr the second highest paid player in the world (£515,000-per-week) after Carlos Tevez (Shanghai Shenua, £615,000-per-week). Neymar takes the number 10 Jersey, which was handed over to him by Javier Pastore. Neymar would definitely do great in PSG. Let's hope he wins the champions league with them and the balon d'or soon. There were a number of other completed transfers within the week. Let ...

On Sports, I'll highlight some completed transfers over the past week. • On Thursday, July 27: Chelsea loaned three of their players: Jamal Blackman (Sheffield United), Michael Hector (Hull City) and Tomas Kalas (Fulham). • On Tuesday, July 25: Izzy Brown was also loaned to Brighton from Chelsea. • On Monday, July 24: West Ham completed a £16m signing of Javier Hernandez from Bayern Leverkusen. Manchester City completed a £52m signing of Benjamin Mendy from Monaco. Juventus completed a £35m signing of Federico Bernardeschi from Fiorentina. Mason Mount was loaned by Chelsea to Vitesse Arnhem. • On Sunday, July 23: Manchester City completed a £26.5m signing of Danilo from Real Madrid. • On Saturday, July 22: West Ham completed the signing of Marko Arnautovic from Stoke City. Middlesbrough completed a £5m signing of Darren Randolph from West Ham. Roma completed a £4.5m signing of Aleksandar Kolarov from Manchester C...

The transfer market is still on and the market has been busy. Today, we look at some outstanding transfers over the past week. On Saturday, July 15: • Tiemoue Bakayoko completed a transfer from Monaco to Chelsea, a five year deal worth about £40m On Sunday, July 16: • Nolito signed a three year contract with Sevilla, completing a transfer from Manchester City • Chelsea loaned Marco van Ginkel to PSV Eindhoven On Tuesday, July 18: • Manchester City loaned Joe Hart to West Ham • Lucas Leiva completed a £5m transfer from Liverpool to Lazio On Wednesday, July 19: • Wojciech Szczesny completed a £10m transfer from Arsenal to Juventus On Friday, July 21: • Alvaro Morata completed a transfer from Real Madrid to Chelsea. He becomes Chelsea's record signing (transfer is worth about £60m) surpassing Fernando Torres' transfer from Liverpool. • Chelsea loaned Kurt Zouma to Stoke City. • Kevin Stewart completed a...

On Sports this weekend, we look at some completed transfers over the past week. Photo Credit to Wikipedia • On Friday, 14 July: Kyle Walker completed a £45m transfer from Tottenham to Manchester City. The right back signed a 5 year contract. Sammy Ameobi also completed a free transfer from Newcastle to Bolton. Chelsea loaned Lucas Piazon to Fulham. • On Thursday, 13 July: Watford Signed Nathaniel Chalobah from Chelsea, for an undisclosed fee. Tigres signed Enner Valencia from West ham, for an undisclosed fee. • On Wednesday, 12 July: Chelsea loaned Ruben Loftus-Cheek to Crystal Palace. Dani Alves completed a free transfer from Juventus to Paris St-Germain. He signed a 2 years contract. Adnan Januzaj completed a £9.8m transfer from Manchester United to Real Sociedad. • On Tuesday, 11 July: Dominic Solanke completed a move from Chelsea to Liverpool for an undisclosed fee. Jack Cork completed a £10m trabsfer from Swansea to ...

It has been an interesting week in the world of football. A couple of transfers were done, and we'll see those involving popular stars and some top clubs. Before we get to that, I want to say a big Congrats to Germany for their victory as the Confederations Cup Champions. Many didn't see that victory coming from the beginning when the team selection was announced. The young players did a good job proving themselves, and I can't wait to see Germany's World Cup squad. Let's now look at the completed transfers within the past 7 days: • Yesterday, July 7, Jonathan Walters, 33, completed a transfer from Stoke City to Burnley, on a two year deal worth £3m. • On Thursday, July 6: Vincent Iborra completed a move to Leicester City from Sevilla. The value of the deal is undisclosed though a fee of about £10.5m is reported. The contract is for 4 years. Vurnon Anita, also competed a free transfer from Newcastle to Leeds. He signed a 3 year contract. • On Wednesday,...

The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup is just less than 48 hours to be done with. It's been an interesting week with the two interesting semi final games played on Wednesday, June 28, and Thursday, June 29. After Portugal qualified as Group winners of Group A, they booked a semi final encounter with Chile, runners up of Group B, on Wednesday. It was the most interesting game of the cup so far, with the winner decided by penalties. Claudio Bravo, the Manchester City and Chilean goalkeeper and captain turned hero as he saved all three penalties, taken by Ricardo Quaresma, João Moutinho and Nani, while Chile scored all three of theirs. The other encounter between Group B winners, Germany and Group A runners up, Mexico ended in a convincing win for Germany as they put four goals past Ochoa, the Mexican goalkeeper while Mexico could only reply with a goal, though a stunning and long distance one by Marco Fabian, from a free kick. Germany and Chile both booked a first Confederation...

The 2017 FIFA confederations cup has been interesting so far. The group stage is still on with a game to go for each of the teams. For the two games played, none of the teams won both games. In Group A, Mexico tops, followed by Portugal. Both teams have same point (four points), but Mexico has scored four goals against three scored by Portugal. Russia comes third with three points and New Zealand comes last with zero point. In Group B, Chile tops with a higher goal difference, but same point (four points). Germany comes second, Australia and Cameroon comes third and last, respectively, with a point each. Last Group A games comes up today, Group B, tomorrow. ********* On the transfer market, there was a significant transfer. Mohamed Salah (25) agreed a transfer to Liverpool from Roma in a deal of £34m. He will wear the number eleven jersey and becomes Liverpool's first ever Egyptian player. ********** Happy Birthday to Lionel Messi as he turns 30 today! Photo Credit: W...

The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup begins today, June 17, and ends on Sunday, July 2. The tournament is made up of 8 countries from 6 confederations with Russia, qualifying automatically as the 2018 FIFA World Cup host. Other countries includes the winners of the FIFA confederation championship (Australia, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal) and the 2014 FIFA World Cup Winner, Germany. Russia takes on New Zealand, this evening. Photo Credit: Wikipedia ********** The English Premier League fixtures for the 2017/2018 season was released on Wednesday, 14 June. League champions, Chelsea, hosts Burnley at Stamford bridge. Other fixtures for the top six teams last season are: Newcastle vs Tottenham Brighton vs Manchester City Watford vs Liverpool Arsenal vs Leicester Manchester United vs West ham Everton has the toughest opening five fixtures, with consecutive games from the second week of the league against Manchester city, Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester Unite...

The transfer window has been on since the first day of the month and there have been interesting signings by some European clubs. On Sports this week, we highlight some of the significant transfers... Two days ago (8th), Ederson Moraes completed a £35m transfer from Benfica to Manchester City. Let's hope the 23-year old Brazilian displaces Claudio Bravo as first choice goalkeeper in his new club. Four days ago (6th), Sead Kolasinac completed a free transfer from Schalke 04 to Arsenal FC. The Bosnian left-back will be hoping to seal a starting eleven spot. On the first day of the transfer window, Darren Fletcher completed a free transfer from West Brom to Stoke city. A lot of big transfers should be happening in the coming weeks of the transfer window. Away from transfers, some well know players have been released by their clubs. These players include: Yaya Sanogo (Arsenal); Joseph Barton (Burnley) who received an 18 month ban from football (on the 26th of April) after admit...

It's the d-day so many football lovers have been waiting for! It's happening at Cardiff!! Juventus vs Real Madrid! Let's recall that Juventus got here by eliminating Porto, Bacelona and AS Monaco; and Madrid got here after eliminating Napoli, Bayern Munich and Atlético Madrid after the group stages. It's gonna be an interesting game. I hope Juve takes it home... Who do you think will come out champion?