Thursday, August 27, 2009

[football] Chygrinsky, Sneijder, Robben on Way For New Clubs

The transfer market finally sprang up a few big names after a few almost eventless days. Now standing at the end of the transfer window, which closes on 31st August, the clubs are either offloading their extras or just putting finishing touches to their lineup.
Dmytro Chygrynsky is a name that had been linked the European champions Barcelona for a long time but his club Shakhtar Donetsk had resisted the attempt so far. But finally the deal goes through and the announcement is likely to be made by saturday. Ironically Chygrynsky is going to play his last match for Shakhtar on friday in the European Super Cup match against Barcelona. The deal is believed to be around 25 million euros.
After long resistence, Real Madrid duo Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben are almost forced out of the squad as they go to Italy and Germany respectively. Sneijder will join Italian champions Inter Milan and Robben will go to Bayern Munich. It is believed Sneijder was transferred for 15 million euro and Robben for 25 million euro.
The transfer of Robben to Bayern seems to be done to increase the chances of Real landing Bayern star Franck Ribery in future.
In a move in England, Manchester City captain Richard Dunne is being sold to Aston Villa. City, who signed high costing central defenders in Kolo Toure and Juleon Lescott claimed that they would keep Dunne as the captain for this season too. However Dunne may not lose the captain's armband as it is believed that Aston Villa may make him the captain after Gareth Barry was transferred to Manchester City. Their current captain, Petrov, may have to let Dunne takehis position.
One of Real Madrid's new signings Alvaro Negredo was sold to Sevilla earlier this week.

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