The "Signings from around Europe" thread.

Mikeyt086

Just watching the Champions League highlights and during the Sporting vs Fiorentina game i noticed Matias Fernandez taking a free kick. I thought "wtf i never heard about that!"

Fact is, Sky dont really care about anything other than the English football leagues, so unless its a big Eto'o to Inter type deal we rarely hear about it.

So this thread is for people to post some significant transfers others might not have heard about untill they pop up in a Champions League game.

Matias Fernandez, Villarreal to Sporting Lisbon.
Bafatembi Gomis, St. Ettienne to Lyon.
Mario Gomez, Stuttgart to Bayern Munich.

The only ones i can think of off the top of my head. Got any yourself?

Eire-Dearg

Wholeheartedly agree, a lot of players have slipped under the radar as they are simply not reported on Sky or anywhere else.

Diego to Juventus
Lisandro Lopez to Lyon
Yoann Gourcuff to Bordeaux

Mr Maroon

Cannavaro to Juve
Huntelaar to AC Milan
Crespo to Genoa
Maxwell to Barcelona

Gillington

Gabriel Heinze Real Madrid-Marseille
Lucho Gonzalez Porto-Marseille
David Rozehnal Lazio-Hamburg
Maxwell Inter-Barca
Olof Mellberg Juventus-Olympiakos
Javier Saviola Real Madrid-Benfica

They're a few I can think of with Premiership experience or biggish names that went under the radar

Royale with Cheese

Lukas Podolski back to FC Köln.

Woooooo

thusspakeblixa

Pogrebnyak to Stuttgart
Diego to Juve
Sneijder to Inter (tonight)
Rafinha to Juve (tonight- unconfirmed afaik)
Olic to Bayern
Morientes to Marseille

redzerdrog

paul keegan to bohs happened a while ago but dont think i seen it on sky sports news!

Eire-Dearg

Mr Maroon wrote: »

Cannavaro to Juve
Huntelaar to AC Milan
Crespo to Genoa
Maxwell to Barcelona

Didn't know that

Headshot

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

Pogrebnyak to Stuttgart
Diego to Juve
Sneijder to Inter (tonight)
Rafinha to Juve (tonight- unconfirmed afaik)
Olic to Bayern
Morientes to Marseille

well marca are saying that's off ?

Redzer7

Cristiano Ronaldo To Real Madrid, Pretty Sure Sky Sports Didn't Pick Up On That

:rolleyes:

Mr. Presentable

Redzer7 wrote: »

Ronaldo To Real Madrid

:rolleyes:

Pretty sure he's too old to go back to Real now, even if they'd want him.

Eire-Dearg

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11854_5515516,00.html

Nothing confirmed yet.

JPA

Headshot wrote: »

well marca are saying that's off ?

That is so this afternoon.

Headshot

JPA wrote: »

That is so this afternoon.

a **** it anyway

Vokes

Quagliarella - Udinese to Napoli
De Sanctis - Sevilla to Napoli
De Silvestri - Lazio to Fiorentina
C. Zanetti - Juve to Fiorentina
Tymoschuk - Zenit to Munich

Napoli attack is beginning to look fearsome.

Mr Maroon

Thiago Motta - Genoa to Inter
Oguchi Onyewu - Standard to AC Milan

dor83

Diego Milito - Genoa to Inter
Julio Cruz - Inter to Lazio
Marko Arnautovic - FC Twente to Inter
Nicolas Burdisso - Inter to Roma(Loan)
Nelson Rivas - Inter to Livorno
Arturo Lupoli - Fiorentina to Ascoli
Alberto Zapater - Real Zaragoza to Genoa
Rodrigo Palacio - Boca Juniors to Genoa
Marco Amelia - Palermo to Genoa
Olof Mellberg - Juventus to Olympiacos
Javier Pastore - Huracan to Palermo
Rubinho - Genoa to Palermo

DubDani

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

Rafinha to Juve (tonight- unconfirmed afaik)

According to Juve they are not interested as they don't have any Non-Eu places available in their squad.

German and Spanish media are reporting that Robben is moving today for 25. mil Euro from Real to Bayern. According to the reports in exchange (beside the 25. mil) Bayern offered Real first option on Ribery for next summer.

Mikeyt086

Jesus, Genoa are assembling a nice little squad. They will be a force to be reckoned with on Football Manager 2010 anyway.

eZe^

Lucho Gonzalez to Marseille has to be the biggest, he jumped ship to a team of roughly the same quality as Porto, strange that no big teams were in for, excellent player. He'd make United and Liverpools starting XI better imo.

anonymous_joe

eZe^ wrote: »

Lucho Gonzalez to Marseille has to be the biggest, he jumped ship to a team of roughly the same quality as Porto, strange that no big teams were in for, excellent player. He'd make United and Liverpools starting XI better imo.

Much bigger league though... Or at least potentially.

Didn't Lisandro Lopez leave Porto too?

eZe^

Yup, Lyon spent about 85% of the Benzema money on Lopez, bit weird really... Lyon are a strange fish this season, they could go either way, still reckon Marseille will win Ligue 1 though.

Warper

eZe^ wrote: »

Yup, Lyon spent about 85% of the Benzema money on Lopez, bit weird really... Lyon are a strange fish this season, they could go either way, still reckon Marseille will win Ligue 1 though.

I fancy Bordeaux to retain Ligue 1. Gourcuff is one of the best attacking midfielders in the world. When he is in top form, the team are in top form. The guy is just brilliant and is sure to become one of the best players in the world.

8-10

Arjen Robben - Bayern Munich....? http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/real-madrid-traspasa-robben-bayern/dasftb/20090827dasdasftb_7/Tes

JPA

Robben has joined Bayern and Sneijder has joined Inter.
Both officially confirmed.

Frisbee

dor83 wrote: »

Olof Mellberg - Juventus to Olympiacos

Hadn't heard about this. Odd one considering he only signed last year.

flahavaj

United should send someone to watch Gourcuff's every touch of the ball this season at Bourdeaux. He's EXACTLY the player they need to revitalise their midfield and lets face it hes not gonna be at Bourdeaux more than one season.

Soby

Ukrainian international Dmytro Chygrynskiy has arrived in Barcelona to undergo a medical ahead of completing a£22m

Jesus Barca and there transfers...First the money they gave Inter ontop of Eto now 22m for (maybe its just me) a player ive never heard of.

eZe^

Soby wrote: »

Ukrainian international Dmytro Chygrynskiy has arrived in Barcelona to undergo a medical ahead of completing a£22m

Jesus Barca and there transfers...First the money they gave Inter ontop of Eto now 22m for (maybe its just me) a player ive never heard of.

I take it you knew all about Vidic and his massive potential when he signed for Man Utd a few seasons ago then ya? Chygrynskiy is a very good defender who is regarded very very highly by the Eastern European fans I know, sure it's alot of money, but this transfer window has been consistently ridiculous in it's prices.

Soby

Ye its just the money im talking about.Sure Vidic signed for no more than 10 million i dont think

eZe^

Soby wrote: »

Ye its just the money im talking about.Sure Vidic signed for no more than 10 million i dont think

7 I believe...

Tom10

From what I remember United paid 10.5 million for Vidic and Evra. Its stuck in my head because Newcastle paid a similar fee for Luque.

22 million is a lot of money for any player, especially one with such a low profile outside of the east. But they barca did pay something like 16 for Martin Caceres who was pretty terrible and was shipped on last time I heard to Juventus on loan.