Saturday, September 1, 2007

31st of August Scramble

31st of August for a couple of Leagues in the Uefa region means that the transfer window will close until January. Usually at this time, managers make panic buys trying to improve their teams before they can do nothing about them for the next 3 months.

This season, the panic buys are not very impressive. Seems like there was no panic involved, and no team feels in a rush to secure another player.

List of player transfers on the transfer dateline.

TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY
Player From To Fee
Caleb Folan Wigan Athletic Hull City £1,000,000
Dejan Stefanovic Portsmouth Fulham £1,000,000
Mohamed Shawky Al-Ahly Middlesbrough £650,000
Stephen Hughes Leicester City Motherwell Undisclosed
Glen Johnson Chelsea Portsmouth Undisclosed
Mikele Leigertwood Sheffield United Queens Park Rangers Undisclosed
Alan Martin Motherwell Leeds United Undisclosed
Lee Bradbury Southend United AFC Bournemouth Free
Jason Euell Middlesbrough Southampton Free
Santiago Aloi River Plate Watford Loan
Marcus Bent Charlton Athletic Wigan Athletic Loan
Chris Birchall Coventry City St Mirren Loan
Curtis Davies West Bromwich Albion Aston Villa Loan
Amdy Faye Charlton Athletic Rangers Loan
Paul Gallagher Blackburn Rovers Preston North End Loan
Andy Gooding Coventry City Burton Albion Loan
Lewis Grabban Crystal Palace Motherwell Loan
Evan Horwood Sheffield United Gretna Loan
Dan Kirkup Carlisle United Clyde Loan
Larrys Mabiala Paris St Germain Plymouth Argyle Loan
David Martot Le Havre Brighton & Hove Albion Loan
David McGoldrick Southampton Port Vale Loan
George O'Callaghan Ipswich Town Brighton & Hove Albion Loan
Eric Odhiambo Leicester City Southend United Loan
Adam Rooney Stoke City Chesterfield Loan
Sam Sodje Reading Charlton Athletic Loan

Elsewhere in Europe, Kluivert moves to lille, and Arouna Kone moves to Sevilla