Sports news making the rounds over the weekend.
Monday February 2nd was the deadline day for the January transfer window for the 2014/2015 football season in Europe. The transfer window saw a lot of deadline day moves.
Although prior to that there have been moves like Gabriel paulista, lucas silva,martin odegaard e.t.c however some clubs left their business till late in the window before making any purchases.
Below we bring you report on the transfers over the weekend and on deadline day.
Chelsea sign fiorentina Colombian winger Juan Cuadrado for a fee around 27million pounds. The deal was completed on deadline day subject to a medical and was later unveiled in the evening of deadline day
Southampton sign chelsea defender Ryan Bertrand on a permanent basis after a successful initial loan spell which saw him make 22 appearances for Southampton in all competitons.
Chelsea Egyptian winger mohammed salah joins fiorentina on loan till the end of the season
Wolfsburg sign chelsea german winger Andre schurrle for a fee around 22million pounds
Tottenham wonderkid Harry kane signs new five year contract
Olympique Marseille sign As Monaco argentine starlet Lucas Ocampos on loan till the end of the season
West bromich albion sign man utd erstwhile assistant captain Darren fletcher. He was given a two and half year contract.
Tottenham sign Mk dons wonderkid Dele Alli for a fee around 5million pounds
Manchester united have brought Bolton wanderers player Andy Kellett. the 21 year old joins man utd on loan till the end of the season
Man utd swiss youngster Saidy Janko joins Bolton from Manchester united on loan
Manchester united starlet Jesse Lingard joins derby county on loan
Hull city sign Lokomotiv Moscow Senegalese international Dame N’doye. He signed a two and half year contract, with option to extend for another one year
Crystal palace complete signing of wifried zaha from Manchester united for an undisclosed fee.
He goes back to the club that brought him into limelight, as he had an unsuccessful spell at old Trafford
Everton have signed Tottenham English winger Aaron Lennon on loan till the end of the season. He signed for everton in his bid to revive his career.
Crystal palace sign Bolton winger Lee Chung yong for and undisclosed fee.
Southampton sign benfica defender Filip Djuricic on loan till the end of the season
Australian legend Tim Cahill leaves New york red bulls and signs for Chinese top tier side Shanghai Shenhua.
Former Nigeria striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni joins Reading on free transfer after he left his former club Al-qattari
Sunderland greek winger Chris Mavrias joins panathinaikos on loan till the end of the season
Ac Milan sign parma defender Gabriel palletta for an undisclosed fee
Ac Milan sign genoa full back Luca Antonelli from genoa for an undisclosed fee
Newcastle defender David Santon joins Inter Milan on till the end of the season
Derby county loan hull city winger Thomas Ince till the end of the season.
In other news Manchester city new signing Wilfried Bony’s move from Swansea was noted as the most expensive move in this window all over Europe.
Australia were crowned winners of the 16th edition of the Asian cup. The tournament which was hosted by Australia saw a lot of thrilling action, however it was the Soccerros who came out on top defeating south korea by 2 goals to 1(aet)
We also continue our coverage of afcon 2015 in equatorial guinea as the tournament reaches it semi-final stages. The quarter finals saw favourites Algeria crash out.The results of the quarterfinal are below.
Algeria 1 vs Ivory coast 3
Ghana 3 vs Guinea 0
Congo 2 vs DR congo 4
Tunisia 1 vs equatorial guinea 2(aet)
The competion continues with the semifinals tomorrow as dr congo take on ivory coast and also on Thursday as Ghana take on hosts equatorial guinea. Do stay tuned as we keep you posted.
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