The Transfer Weekly

Hello to you all, Barka da Sallah in arrears to my Muslim readers, our 1st post-Ramadan Post will be the 1st in our "Transfer Weekly" series, which will be giving insight into transfer moves completed all over the globe, money involved and the expected impact to both the buying/selling club and the market in general. The transfer window has officially been open for 3 weeks now, therefore it has 6 weeks remaining (the official window is from the 1st of July to 31st of August).

This been the 1st post, we will talk about all major transfer from the 1st of July up to date

DONE DEALS
A number of deals were reached before the window was actually open such as the £25m purchase of Depay by Manchester United, the Danny Ings free transfer to Liverpool, to the £17m capture of the Atlético Madrid centre-forward Mario Mandzukic by Juventus.

BOSMAN MOVES
Otherwise known as Free Transfers (this is a case were when a player's contract expires, he is free to agree a contract from any other club, named after the first player to accomplish this Jean-Marc Bosman)
Top on the List of those who have completed free transfers is James Milner

Top 10 Bosman Moves

MAIN MOVES
The club with the most significant purchases in the premier league - in my opinion - has to be Manchester United with the signing of the "Sch duo" (Morgan Schneiderlin from Southampton Undisclosed and Bastian Schweinsteiger from Bayern Munich for £14m ) Matteo Darmian (from Torino for £12m) and Depay as earlier stated. The close to £100m outlay by the club shows they are serious about finishing higher than their 4th place finish last season(17 points behind the Champions).

Unveiling the "Sch duo" and Darmain

 Liverpool have also been busy with the signing of Firmino (from Hoffenheim for £29m), Nathaniel Clyne (from Southampton for £12.5m), Joe Gomez (from Charlton Athletic for £3.5m) and the free transfers of Milner,Ings and Bogdan

Manchester City's foray into the transfer market has been mainly to makeup for there almost non-existent Home grown quota, they have signed Fabian Delph (from Aston Villa for £8.0m), Patrick Roberts (from Fulham for £12.0m) and the major one Raheem Sterling(for a whooping £49.0m from Liverpool)

Arsenal's only purchase so far is the Goalkeeper Petr Cech (from Chelsea for £10.0m) and Chelsea's deals have all been reactionary (replacement) purchases Asmir Begovic (from Stoke City for £8m) to replace Petr Cech and Radamel Falcao (on loan from Monaco) to replace Drogba.

Major deals in Italy include Paulo Dybala (to Juventus from Palermo for a fee of £32m), Carlos Bacca (to Milan from Sevilla for a fee of £30m), Geoffrey Kondogbia (Inter from Monaco for a fee of £30m), Andrea Bertolacci (to Milan from Roma for a fee of £20m), Mario Mandzukic (to Juventus from Atletico Madrid for a fee of £19m), Brazilian forward Luiz Adriano (to Milan from Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee of £8m)

The high profile signings in Spain include Jackson Martinez ( To Atletico Madrid from Porto for a fee of £36.7m), Danilo ( To Real Madrid from Porto for a fee of £31.5m), Alvaro Negredo ( permanenting his stay at Valencia from Manchester City for a fee of £30m), Yannick Ferreira Carrasco ( To Atletico Madrid from Monaco for a fee of £20m). Despite the Transfer ban on Barcelona, they have signed Turkish midfielder Arda Turan from Atletico Madrid for a fee of £34m and Defender Aleix Vidal from Sevilla for a fee of £17m.

No much major transfers in Germany, the stand out one is Douglas Costa's move to Bayern Munich from Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee of £30m, Johannes Geis joined Schalke 04 from Mainz for a fee of £12, and Max Kruse joined Wolfsburg from Borussia Monchengladbach for a fee of £12m.

Surprisingly, Turkey has seen an influx of high profile names albeit in the twilight of their careers, names such as Robin Ver Persie (the 31 year old joined Fenerbahce from Manchester United), Nani (the 28 year old joined Fenerbahce from Manchester United) and Podolski (The 30 year old joined Galatasaray from Arsenal).

RVP in Fenerbahce's colours

SPECULATIONS
Deals that could be completed this week are:

• Di Maria to PSG - Possibility of happening 70%
• Arturo Vidal to Bayern Munich - Possibility of happening 85%
• Benzema to Arsenal or Manchester United - Possibility of happening 45%
• John Stones to Chelsea - Possibility of happening 80%
• Benteke to Liverpool or Manchester United - Possibility of happening 90%
• Ramos to Manchester United - Possibility of happening 70%
• Pogba to Barcelona - Possibility of happening 55%
• Jonny Evans to Everton - Possibility of happening 65%
• Arda Turan out on Loan - Possibility of happening 40%
• Otamendi to Manchester United - Possibility of happening 65%
• Filipe Luiz to Ath. Madrid - Possibility of happening 90%
• Baba Rahman to Chelsea - Possibility of happening 80%
• Pedro to Chelsea, Man. United - Possibility of happening 75%

This is all from me for this week, next week we'll see how many of my predictions came to be:-)