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Who is Where? A Guide to EPL Completed Transfer

Published

7 years ago

July 27, 2017

It is 15 days to the kick-off of the 2017/18 English Premier League, the world’s most followed domestic football league. The transfer market has been bubbling. Speculations and rumours are rife of players who have either changed clubs are suspected to be anticipating moves. In alphabetical order, we bring to you all completed moves as at the morning of Thursday July 27. The only English Premiership club without a new signing as at Thursday is Tottenham Hotspur.

1. AFC BOURNEMOUTH

ARRIVAL:

Asmir Begovic (Chelsea) £10m

Nathan Ake (Chelsea) £20m

Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) Free

Connor Mahoney (Blackburn) Free

DEPARTURE:
Ryan Allsop (Blackpool) Loan

Callum Buckley (Released)

Jake McCarthy (Released)

Matthew Neale (Released)

Lewis Grabban (Sunderland) Loan

ARSENAL

ARRIVAL:
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) £45m

Sead Kolasinac (Schalke) Free

DEPARTURE:
Marc Bola (Bristol Rovers) Loan

Stefan O’Connor (Newcastle) Free

Stefan O’Connor (Released)

Kristopher da Graca (Released)

Kostas Pileas (Released)

Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus) £10m

Chris Willock (Benfica) Undisclosed

Kaylen Hinds (Wolfsburg) Undisclosed

Takuma Asano (Stuttgart) Loan

Yaya Sanogo (Toulouse) Free

Glen Kamara (Dundee) Free

BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION

ARRIVAL:
Markus Suttner (Ingolstadt) Undisclosed

Mathew Ryan (Valencia) Undisclosed

Pascal Gross (Ingolstadt) Undisclosed

Josh Kerr (Celtic) Undisclosed

DEPARTURE:
Christian Walton (Wigan) Loan

David Stockdale (Birmingham) Free

Rob Hunt (Oldham) Undisclosed

Jordan Maguire-Drew (Lincoln) Loan

Elvis Manu (Genclerbirligi) Free

BURNLEY

ARRIVAL:

Jonathan Walters (Stoke) £3m

Charlie Taylor (Leeds) Tribunal Fee

Jack Cork (Swansea) £10m

DEPARTURE:
Joey Barton (Released)

George Green (Released)

RJ Pingling (Released)

Christian Hill (Released)

Taofiq Olmowewe (Released)

Paul Robinson (Retired)

Michael Keane (Everton) £25m

Josh Ginnelly (Lincoln City) Loan

George Boyd (Sheffield Wednesday) Free

Michael Kightly (Southend) Free

Rouwen Hennings (Fortuna Dusseldorf) Free

CHELSEA

ARRIVAL:
Ethan Ampadu (Exeter) Undisclosed

Willy Caballero (Manchester City) Free

Tiemoue Bakayoko (AS Monaco) £39.7m

Antonio Rudiger (Roma) £34m

Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid) £60m

DEPARTURE:
Nathan Ake (AFC Bournemouth) £20m

Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) £17m

Asmir Begovic (AFC Bournemouth) £10m

Bertrand Traore (Lyon) £8.8m

Christian Atsu (Newcastle) £6.2m

Dominic Solanke (Liverpool) Compensation

Mukhtar Ali (Vitesse) Undisclosed

Bradley Collins (Forest Green) Loan

Charlie Colkett (Vitesse) Loan

Ike Ugbo (Barnsley) Loan

Jay Dasilva (Charlton) Loan

Kurt Zouma (Stoke) Loan

Lucas Piazon (Fulham) Loan

Marco van Ginkel (PSV Eindhoven) Loan

Ola Aina (Hull City) Loan

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Crystal Palace) Loan

Tammy Abraham (Swansea) Loan

Todd Kane (Groningen) Loan

Alex Kiwomya (Doncaster) Free

John Terry (Aston Villa) Free

Alex Davey (Released)

CRYSTAL PALACE

ARRIVAL:

Jairo Riedewald (Ajax) £7.9m

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) Loan

DEPARTURE:

Jonathan Benteke (Released)

Mathieu Flamini (Released)

Ryan King-Elliott (Released)

Joe Ledley (Released)

Steve Mandanda (Marseille) £1.8m

Kwesi Appiah (AFC Wimbledon) Free

Luke Croll (Exeter) Free

Zeki Fryers (Barnsley) Free

Frazier Campbell (Hull City) Free

Corie Andrews (Released)

Randell Wiliams (Released)

Ben Wynter (Released)

EVERTON

ARRIVAL:
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Undisclosed

Michael Keane (Burnley) £25m

Jordan Pickford (Sunderland) £25m

Davy Klaassen (Ajax) £23.6m

Henry Onyekuru (Eupen) £7m

Sandro Ramirez (Malaga) £5.25m

Josh Bowler (QPR) £1.5m

Natangelo Markelo (FC Volendam) Undisclosed

Boris Mathis (Metz) Undisclosed

Cuco Martina (Southampton) Free

DEPARTURE:
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) £75m

Gerard Deulofeu (Barcelona) £10.6m

Tom Cleverley (Watford) Undisclosed

Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) Undisclosed

Courtney Duffus (Oldham) Undisclosed

Delial Brewster (Chesterfield) Free

Russell Griffiths (Motherwell) Free

Conor McAleny (Fleetwood) Free

Josef Yarney (Newcastle) Free

Arouna Kone (Sivasspor) Free

Henry Onyekuru (Anderlecht) Loan

Tyias Browning (Sunderland) Loan

Matthew Pennington (Leeds) Loan

Jack Bainbridge (Released)

Michael Donohue (Released)

Tyrone Duffus (Released)

Connor Hunt (Released)

Josef Yarney (Released)

James Yates (Released)

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN

ARRIVAL:

Steve Mounie (Montpellier) £11.44m

Tom Ince (Derby) £8.5m

Aaron Mooy (Manchester City) £8m

Laurent Depoitre (FC Porto) Undisclosed

Mathias Jorgensen (FC Copenhagen) Undisclosed

Jonas Lossl (Mainz) Loan

Kasey Palmer (Chelsea) Loan

Danny Williams (Reading) Free

DEPARTURE:
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Portsmouth) Loan

Joe Murphy (Released)
Flo Bojaj (Released)

Ronan Coughlan (Released)
Jamie Spencer (Released)
Sam Warde (Released)
Frank Mulhern (Released)

Owen Brooke (Released)
Harry Clibbens (Released)
Callum Elliott (Released)
Alfie Raw (Released)

LEICESTER CITY

ARRIVAL:
Harry Maguire (Hull City) £17m

Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) £10.5m

Eldin Jakupovic (Hull City) £2m

Sam Hughes (Chester) Undisclosed

DEPARTURE:
Ron-Robert Zieler (VfB Stuttgart) £2.5m

Bartosz Kapustka (SC Freiburg) Loan

Marcin Wasilewski (Released)

Michael Cain (Released)

David Domej (Released)

Brandon Fox (Released)

Cedric Kipre (Released)

Matty Miles (Released)

Kairo Mitchell (Released)

LIVERPOOL

IN
Mohamed Salah (Roma) £34m

Andrew Robertson (Hull City) £8m rising to £10m

Dominic Solanke (Chelsea) Compensation

DEPARTURE:

Kevin Stewart (Hull City) £8m
Lucas Leiva (Lazio) £5m

Andre Wisdom (Derby) Undisclosed

Ryan Fulton (Hamilton) Free

Tom Brewitt (Released)

Jake Brimmer (Released)

Jack Dunn (Released)

Madger Gomes (Released)

Kane Lewis (Released)

Adam Phillips (Released)

Alex Manninger (Retired)

MANCHESTER CITY

ARRIVAL:
Douglas Luiz (Vasco da Gama) £10m

Danilo (Real Madrid) £26.9m

Ederson (Benfica) £34.7m

Bernardo Silva (AS Monaco) £43m

Kyle Walker (Tottenham) £50m

Benjamin Mendy (AS Monaco) £51m

DEPARTURE:
Nolito (Sevilla) £8m
Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield) £8m

Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma) £4.5m

Olivier Ntcham (Celtic) £4m

Enes Unal (Villarreal) Undisclosed

Bruno Zuculini (Verona) Undisclosed

Angus Gunn (Norwich) Loan

Ashley Smith-Brown (Hearts) Loan

Bersant Celina (Ipswich) Loan

Joe Hart (West Ham) Loan

Pablo Zabaleta (West Ham) Free

Willy Caballero (Chelsea) Free

Gael Clichy (Istanbul Basaksehir) Free

Joe Coveney (Nottingham Forest) Free

Jesus Navas (Released)

Bacary Sagna (Released)

Callum Bullock (Released)

Thomas O’Brien (Released)

Kane Plummer (Released)

MANCHESTER UNITED

ARRIVAL:

Romelu Lukaku (Everton) £75m

Victor Lindelof (Benfica) £31m

DEPARTURE:

Wayne Rooney (Everton) Undisclosed

Adnan Januzaj (Real Sociedad) £9.8m

Josh Harrop (Preston) Undisclosed

Regan Poole (Northampton) Loan

Dean Henderson (Shrewsbury) Loan

Sam Johnstone (Aston Villa) Loan

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Released)

NEWCASTLE UNITED

ARRIVAL:

Jacob Murphy (Norwich) £12m

Florian Lejeune (Eibar) £8.7m

Christian Atsu (Chelsea) £6.2m

Javi Manquillo (Atletico Madrid) £4.5m

Stefan O’Connor (Arsenal) Free

Josef Yarney (Everton) Free

DEPARTURE:

Daryl Murphy (Nottingham Forest) £2m

Yoan Gouffran (Goztepe) Undisclosed

Florian Thauvin (Marseille) Undisclosed

Kevin Mbabu (BSC Young Boys) Undisclosed

Matz Sels (Anderlecht) Loan

Alex Gilliead (Bradford) Loan

Tom Heardman (Bury) Loan

Adam Armstrong (Bolton) Loan

Sean Longstaff (Blackpool) Loan

Vurnon Anita (Leeds) Free

Haris Vuckic (FC Twente) Free

Lubomir Satka (DAC 1904) Free

Sammy Ameobi (Bolton) Free

Steven Taylor (Released)

Jamie Cobain (Released)

Louis Johnson (Released)

Adam Laidler (Released)

Ben Pollock (Released)

Lewis Suddick (Released)

Jake Trodd (Released)

SOUTHAMPTON

ARRIVAL

Jan Bednarek (Lech Poznan) Free

DEPARTURE:

Jay Rodriguez (West Brom) £12m

Jason McCarthy (Barnsley) Undisclosed

Lloyd Isgrove (Barnsley) Free

Olufela Olomola (Yeovil) Loan

Harrison Reed (Norwich) Loan

Harry Lewis (Dundee United) Loan

Ryan Seager (MK Dons) Loan

Cuco Martina (Everton) Free

Lloyd Isgrove (Released)

Harley Willard (Released)

Martin Caceres (Released)

STOKE CITY

ARRIVAL:

Josh Tymon (Hull) Undisclosed

Kurt Zouma (Chelsea) Loan

Darren Fletcher (West Brom) Free

DEPARTURE:

Jonathan Walters (Burnley) £3m

Daniel Bachmann (Watford) Free

Shay Given (Released)
Liam Edwards (Released)
Harry Isted (Released)
Joel Taylor (Released)
George Waring (Released)

SWANSEA CITY

ARRIVAL:

Roque Mesa (Las Palmas) £11m

Cian Harries (Coventry) £500k

Erwin Mulder (Heerenveen) Free

Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) Loan

DEPARTURE:

Jack Cork (Burnley) £10m

Bafetimbi Gomis (Galatasaray) £2.5m

Alex Samuel (Stevenage) Free

Liam Edwards (Hull) Free

Josh Vickers (Lincoln) Free

Liam Shephard (Peterborough) Free

Daniel James (Shrewsbury) Loan

Borja Baston (Malaga) Loan

Jordi Amat (Real Betis) Loan

Connor Roberts (Middlesbrough) Loan

Keston Davies (Yeovil) Loan

Franck Tabanou (Released)

Gerhard Tremmel (Released)

Marvin Emnes (Released)

Owain Jones (Released)

Tom Dyson (Released)

Tom Holland (Released)

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

ARRIVAL:

Nil

DEPARTURE:
Kyle Walker (Manchester City) £50m

Nabil Bentaleb (Schalke) £16.8m

Clinton Njie (Marseille) £8m

Luke McGee (Portsmouth) Undisclosed

Federico Fazio (Roma) Undisclosed

Connor Ogilvie (Gillingham) Loan

Filip Lesniak (Released)

Tom McDermott (Released)

Joe Muscatt (Released)

Charlie Owens (Released)

Zenon Stylianides (Released)

WATFORD

ARRIVAL:
Will Hughes (Derby) £8m

Tom Cleverley (Everton) Undisclosed

Daniel Bachmann (Stoke) Free

Kiko Femenia (Alaves) Free

DEPARTURE:

Mario Suarez (Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng FC) Undisclosed

Dennon Lewis (Crawley) Loan

Rene Gilmartin (Colchester) Free

Mathias Ranegie (Released)

Ola Adeyemo (Released)

Charlie Bannister (Released)

Ogo Obi (Released)

Rhyle Ovenden (Released)

WEST BROMWICH ALBION

ARRIVAL:
Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) £12m

Yuning Zhang (Vitesse) Undisclosed

Ahmed Hegazi (Al Ahly) Loan

DEPARTURE:

Darren Fletcher (Stoke) Free

Sebastien Pocognoli (Standard Liege) Free

Yuning Zhang (Werder Bremen) Loan

Daniel Barbir (Released)

Zachary Elbouzedi (Released)

Callam Jones (Released)

Jack Rose (Released)

Andre Wright (Released)

WEST HAM UNITED

ARRIVAL:

Javier Hernandez (Bayer Leverkusen) £16m

Pablo Zabaleta (Man City) Free

Joe Hart (Man City) Loan

DEPARTURE:
Enner Valencia (Tigres) £5m

Darren Randolph (Middlesbrough) £4m

Havard Nordtveit (Hoffenheim) Undisclosed

George Dobson (Sparta Rotterdam) Undisclosed

Reece Oxford (Borussia Monchengladbach) Loan

Stephen Hendrie (Southed) Free

Sam Howes (Released)

Sam Ford (Released)

Kyle Knoyle (Released)

Sam Westley (Released)

Alvaro Arbeloa (Retired)

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Manu Garba proud of Eaglets as team countenances Niger Republic

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May 17, 2024

Kunle Solaja

Coach Manu Garba has asserted that he is proud of the Golden Eaglets after Thursday’s scoreless encounter with their Burkina Faso counterparts in the Group B opener of the WAFU B U17 Championship.

Five-time champions Nigeria created several scoring chances particularly late in the game at the Accra University Stadium, but failed to utilise even one that could have earned them the three points and handed them early leadership of the pool.

However, Garba said the boys played a cohesive game in their first-ever international outing and deserve credit for their display.

“We are proud of our team’s performance. Although we didn’t secure the win that we hoped for, our players showed great teamwork and sportsmanship. We look forward to our next match and the opportunity to continue growing and improving.

“The boys will get better with experience and exposure.”

Against the Burkinabes, the Eaglets showed flair and fluency, but a heavy downpour in the final 15 minutes of the game disrupted the general flow of play, with the pitch waterlogged and effective control and passing impossible.

The Golden Eaglets go up against their counterparts from the Niger Republic on Sunday evening (6pm Ghana time; 7pm Nigeria) with renewed hope and vigour to pick up the three points that will enhance their chances of a place in the last four.

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Paris to face major disruption ahead of Games opening ceremony, says police chief

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3 weeks ago

April 26, 2024

Kunle Solaja

Paris will face major disruption ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony along the Seine on July 26, as organisers ramp up security measures to safeguard the event, the city’s police chief said on Thursday.

Organisers hope the opening ceremony, in which 160 boats carrying athletes from around the world will travel a 6 kilometre route along the Seine river towards the Eiffel tower, will deliver a jaw-dropping spectacle. Some 300,000 spectators will watch from the banks of the Seine as a global audience tunes in on TV.

But the ceremony is also a major security headache, taking place against a backdrop of wars in Ukraine and Gaza. French President Emmanuel Macron has already floated the possibility of scrapping the river ceremony and reverting to at least two back-up plans if the security risks become untenable.

Paris residents with a view of the Seine can invite friends to watch the opening of the 2024 Summer Games from their balconies, but should prepare for heavy traffic and limited movement, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said at a press conference.

Adjacent metro stations, most river crossings and all water traffic will be halted in the week before the open-air ceremony, Nunez said, adding that some bridges will remain open “in order not to cut Paris in two halves.”

Everyone who wants to access the immediate surroundings of the Seine in the week before the Games will need to sign up on an online platform, Nunez said. Local residents hoping to access their homes, which are among the most prestigious addresses in France, will need to do the same.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, who also spoke at the event said the disruption would impact around 20,000 residents and business owners.

Asked about Macron’s comments earlier this month, Nunez said his teams were still working on the ‘Plan A’ of the river ceremony.

“As of today, we have no reason to be worried,” Nunez said.

-Reuters

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New dawn expected as Nigeria sports ministry partners with Yanga Games

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April 20, 2024

Kunle Solaja

Towards creating a new dawn for Nigerian Sports, the Federal Ministry of Sports has signed a landmark agreement with top lottery company Yanga Games to raise the revenue profile of the Ministry and ensure a new deal for the welfare of athletes.

Speaking during the unveiling of the partnership between the Ministry and Yanga Games in Lagos on Friday, Chairman/CEO of Yanga Games Derrick David Kentebe said: “we are so super excited by this opportunity to work with the Ministry of Sports Development to change the narrative about Sports in the country.

Continuing, he remarked: “We see opportunity for marketing our athletes and sports generally . We shall avail ourselves the best use of this unique and special partnership. We shall pursue this mandate with vigour, passion and unrivaled commitment to bring benefits to all the critical stakeholders.”

The agreement according to Kentebe will provide support for retired athletes, enhance grassroot sports Development and advance the potentials of special athletes.

He assured that ” Yanga Games has the capacity to raise funds on behalf of the Ministry of Sports for athletes Development, endorsement and sponsorship deals for athletes”.

Minister of Sports Senator John Owan Enoh assured that the Ministry has total and absolute confidence in Yanga Games to deliver on the given mandate.

“Gone are the era when we depended solely on government to fund sports development. We are partnering with Yanga Games to bring maximum benefits to the athletes and all critical stakeholders.

“We shall give institutional encouragement and support to the Management of Yanga Games to succeed in this onerous task of rebuilding our sports sub sector.”

Speaking further, Kentebe said ” We shall raise about 34 Billion in the next four years to assist athletes and improve sports in the country.

“We shall help to develop grassroot sports and sustain youth involvement through raffle draws, fund raiser and other avenues.