Counting Down To Transfer Madness

It’s only days away from the open­ing of the trans­fer win­dow — a time when much cash will be splashed and many sides will be re-shaped and benches re-inforced. Because there can be some major impact sign­ings, I am wait­ing to ana­lyze the match-ups in the Cham­pi­ons League Round of 16 and the Europa League Round of 32 until after the trans­fer win­dow closes. Those com­pe­ti­tions do not kick off again until Feb­ru­ary 16th. Here are a few arti­cles I’ve been check­ing out the past few days in antic­i­pa­tion of the spend­ing spree.

Real Madrid’s Sur­plus Goods List
Ful­ham are also doing some house clean­ing

Depend­ing who you want to believe, Valen­cia sniper David Villa is going to Man­ches­ter United, Chelsea, or Real Madrid. It looks like Villa will move either in Jan­u­ary or the sum­mer trans­fer win­dow as Valen­cia will likely have to sell two from Villa, David Silva and Juan Mata in a bid to cut down their £450m in debt.

Chelsea may be more inter­ested in a striker from another debt-laden Span­ish club, Atletico Madrid’s Kun Aguero.

Luca Toni will be another name fea­tur­ing in many head­lines with a return to Italy loom­ing. Will he land at Inter­nazionale?

Zenit St Peters­burg are said to be con­sid­er­ing a move for Fiorentina’s striker Adrian Mutu
after declin­ing on a pur­chase option on PSG for­ward Mateja Kežman.

Spe­cial Note: Be sure to check out Major League Soc­cer Talk as they will have the most in-depth cov­er­age of the Lan­don Dono­van loan spell with Everton.

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