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Remember Gyan Asamoah?

Asamoah had a good season at Sunderland to the extent some bigger clubs in the PL reportedly wanted him and in the prime of his career went there. He has a cristiano ronaldo-esque rate of scoring goals for his club (apparently 90 in 74 games). He's scored 18 goals at international level in the last 2 years too. Such a waste going there at 25.

Harry Redknapp ‏@Redknapp  34m34 minutes ago
Heard Swansea are close to signing Andre Ayew from Marseille. He's on the way there with his agent Mark Mackay to do the deal. Good player.

'Arry the ITK  😆
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Sam ‏@samuelJayC
Jackson Martinez's agent confirms striker will leave @FCPorto this week after "top European club" activated £25.8m release clause.

HomeSteak wrote:

Sam ‏@samuelJayC  
Jackson Martinez's agent confirms striker will leave @FCPorto this week after "top European club" activated £25.8m release clause.

Not us.

Have a lot of respect for what Juve are doing. Their summer is two days old and they've already bagged Khedira and Dybala. Khedira could be a replacement for Vidal, but they've sorted their team out quickly.

Pirlo is going to MLS, Pogba is wanted by Barca. No wonder they need additions. Same goes for their forward line - there's talks of Tevez wanting to leave and Real using their buyback clause for Morata.

Bild say Tottenham have bid £7.5m for Stuttgart striker Timo Werner.

Gunner89 wrote:

Think Danilo was their first choice though.

Quite surprised that Madrid signed him.

I hope one of Danilo/Cavajal gets sick of being on the bench and we sign him.

Ballague claims that Barca's first choice was Danilo, but he was too expensive for them.

marv3llous wrote:

Not us.

On twitter heard a few rumours the team in question is Valencia.

JazzG wrote:
marv3llous wrote:

Not us.

On twitter heard a few rumours the team in question is Valencia.

Makes sense, since Milan apparently want Negredo.

What's doing the rounds is Valencia have an obligation to pay 32m euros for Negredo but he had some serious injury and came back and has been awful and he's 30 in August so they want to sell him and understand they will get a significant loss.

JazzG wrote:
marv3llous wrote:

Not us.

On twitter heard a few rumours the team in question is Valencia.

That seems legit, given that Peter Lim manages Martinez's agent company.

He is using his connections to sign alot of Portugese League players and earning a profit from the agent fees.

From The Sun.

Manchester United want Atletico Madrid striker Mario Mandzukic, 29, a year after he joined the Spanish club from Bayern Munich for £18.5m.

Simeone knows Vietto well having signed the player from Estudiantes while he was in charge of Argentinian side Racing Club in 2011.

"Vietto is one of our aims," Simeone said. "We are close to signing him.

"I hope we can have him with us next season because he is a player that has extraordinary characteristics."

Apparently he's costing about 14.5m pounds