Premier League
Who is Where? A Guide to EPL Completed Transfer as at This Weekend
It is barely one week to the new English Premiership League season and all the 20 clubs have virtually taking shape, shedding loads and infusing new blood. Nigeria’s Kelechi Iheanacho was one of the players whose transfers were concluded this week.
He moves from Manchester City to team up with fellow Super Eagles players in Leicester City. While he joins Winfred Ndidi and Ahmed Musa, his other compatriot and defender, Taofiq Olomowewe was released by his club, Burnley. Another player of Nigerian extraction, Ike Ugbo is sent on loan to Barnsley from Chelsea. Henry Onyekuru transferred to Everton from Eupen but is immediately sent on loan to Anderlecht in the Netherlands.
Another Nigerian player, Taiwo Awoniyi leaves Liverpool on loan to Belgian Pro League side, Royal Excel Mouscron.
Olajuwon Bamidele “Ola” Adeyemo and Ogo Obi are players of Nigerian roots. In the current transfer market, they were released by Watford. Expectedly across Europe, there was more money spent this summer transfer market than before. Could this mean that football is immune from the global economic recession?
Courtesy 90min, we bring to you, in alphabetical order, all concluded transfers as at Friday night.
1. AFC BOURNEMOUTH
IN:
Nathan Ake (Chelsea) £20m
Asmir Begovic (Chelsea) £10m
Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) Free
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn) Free
OUT
Lewis Grabban (Sunderland) Loan
Ryan Allsop (Blackpool) Loan
Callum Buckley (Released)
Jake McCarthy (Released)
Matthew Neale (Released)
2. ARSENAL
IN:
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) £45m
Sead Kolasinac (Schalke) Free
OUT:
Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus) £10m
Chris Willock (Benfica) Undisclosed
Kaylen Hinds (Wolfsburg) Undisclosed
Takuma Asano (Stuttgart) Loan
Marc Bola (Bristol Rovers) Loan
Emi Martinez (Getafe) Loan
Stefan O’Connor (Newcastle) Free
Yaya Sanogo (Toulouse) Free
Glen Kamara (Dundee) Free
Stefan O’Connor (Released)
Kristopher da Graca (Released)
Kostas Pileas (Released)
3. BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION
IN:
Pascal Gross (Ingolstadt) Undisclosed
Mathew Ryan (Valencia) Undisclosed
Josh Kerr (Celtic) Undisclosed
Markus Suttner (Ingolstadt) Undisclosed
Mathias Normann (FK Bodo/Glimt) Undisclosed
Steven Alzate (Leyton Orient) Undisclosed
Ales Mateju (Viktoria Plzen) Undisclosed
Izzy Brown (Chelsea) Loan
OUT:
Rob Hunt (Oldham) Undisclosed
Jordan Maguire-Drew (Lincoln) Loan
Christian Walton (Wigan) Loan
Oliver Norwood (Fulham) Loan
Ben White (Newport County) Loan
David Stockdale (Birmingham) Free
Elvis Manu (Genclerbirligi) Free
4. BURNLEY
IN:
Jack Cork (Swansea) £10m
Jonathan Walters (Stoke) £3m
Charlie Taylor (Leeds) Tribunal Fee
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) Undisclosed
OUT:
Michael Keane (Everton) £25m
Josh Ginnelly (Lincoln City) Loan
Aiden O’Neill (Fleetwood Town) Loan
George Boyd (Sheffield Wednesday) Free
Michael Kightly (Southend) Free
Rouwen Hennings (Fortuna Dusseldorf) Free
Joey Barton (Released)
George Green (Released)
RJ Pingling (Released)
Christian Hill (Released)
Taofiq Olomowewe (Released)
Paul Robinson (Retired)
5. CHELSEA
IN:
Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid) £60m
Tiemoue Bakayoko (AS Monaco) £39.7m
Antonio Rudiger (Roma) £34m
Ethan Ampadu (Exeter) Undisclosed
Willy Caballero (Manchester City) Free
OUT
Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) £40m
Nathan Ake (Bournemouth) £20m
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) £17m
Asmir Begovic (Bournemouth) £10m
Bertrand Traore (Lyon) £8.8m
Christian Atsu (Newcastle) £6.2m
Dominic Solanke (Liverpool) Compensation
Mukhtar Ali (Vitesse) Undisclosed
Bradley Collins (Forest Green) Loan
Charlie Colkett (Vitesse) Loan
Ike Ugbo (Barnsley) Loan
Jamal Blackman (Sheffield United) Loan
Jay Dasilva (Charlton) Loan
Kurt Zouma (Stoke) Loan
Lucas Piazon (Fulham) Loan
Marco van Ginkel (PSV Eindhoven) Loan
Michael Hector (Hull City) Loan
Ola Aina (Hull City) Loan
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Crystal Palace) Loan
Tammy Abraham (Swansea) Loan
Todd Kane (Groningen) Loan
Tomas Kalas (Fulham) Loan
Mario Pasalic (Spartak Moscow) Loan
Izzy Brown (Brighton) Loan
Matt Miazga (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan
Alex Kiwomya (Doncaster) Free
John Terry (Aston Villa) Free
Alex Davey (Released)
6. CRYSTAL PALACE
IN:
Jairo Riedewald (Ajax) £7.9m
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) Loan
OUT:
Steve Mandanda (Marseille) £1.8m
Kwesi Appiah (AFC Wimbledon) Free
Luke Croll (Exeter) Free
Zeki Fryers (Barnsley) Free
Frazier Campbell (Hull City) Free
Corie Andrews (Released)
Jonathan Benteke (Released)
Mathieu Flamini (Released)
Ryan King-Elliott (Released)
Joe Ledley (Released)
Randell Wiliams (Released)
Ben Wynter (Released)
7. EVERTON
IN:
Michael Keane (Burnley) £25m
Jordan Pickford (Sunderland) £25m
Davy Klaassen (Ajax) £23.6m
Henry Onyekuru (Eupen) £7m
Sandro Ramirez (Malaga) £5.25m
Josh Bowler (QPR) £1.5m
Lewis Gibson (Newcastle) Undisclosed
Natangelo Markelo (FC Volendam) Undisclosed
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Undisclosed
Boris Mathis (Metz) Undisclosed
Cuco Martina (Southampton) Free
OUT:
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) £75m
Gerard Deulofeu (Barcelona) £10.6m
Tom Cleverley (Watford) Undisclosed
Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) Undisclosed
Courtney Duffus (Oldham) Undisclosed
Delial Brewster (Chesterfield) Free
Russell Griffiths (Motherwell) Free
Conor McAleny (Fleetwood) Free
Josef Yarney (Newcastle) Free
Arouna Kone (Sivasspor) Free
Henry Onyekuru (Anderlecht) Loan
Tyias Browning (Sunderland) Loan
Matthew Pennington (Leeds) Loan
Jack Bainbridge (Released)
Michael Donohue (Released)
Tyrone Duffus (Released)
Connor Hunt (Released)
Josef Yarney (Released)
James Yates (Released)
8. HUDDERSFIELD TOWN
IN:
Steve Mounie (Montpellier) £11.44m
Tom Ince (Derby) £8.5m
Aaron Mooy (Manchester City) £8m
Laurent Depoitre (FC Porto) Undisclosed
Mathias Jorgensen (FC Copenhagen) Undisclosed
Scott Malone (Fulham) Undisclosed
Jonas Lossl (Mainz) Loan
Kasey Palmer (Chelsea) Loan
Danny Williams (Reading) Free
OUT:
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Portsmouth) Loan
Joe Murphy (Released)
Flo Bojaj (Released)
Ronan Coughlan (Released)
Jamie Spencer (Released)
Sam Warde (Released)
Frank Mulhern (Released)
Owen Brooke (Released)
Harry Clibbens (Released)
Callum Elliott (Released)
Alfie Raw (Released)
9. LEICESTER CITY
IN:
Kelechi Iheanacho (Man City) £23.5m
Harry Maguire (Hull City) £17m
Vicente Iborra (Sevilla) £10.5m
Eldin Jakupovic (Hull City) £2m
Sam Hughes (Chester) Undisclosed
OUT
Ron-Robert Zieler (VfB Stuttgart) £2.5m
Bartosz Kapustka (SC Freiburg) Loan
Marcin Wasilewski (Released)
Michael Cain (Released)
David Domej (Released)
Brandon Fox (Released)
Cedric Kipre (Released)
Matty Miles (Released)
Kairo Mitchell (Released)
10. LIVERPOOL
IN:
Mohamed Salah (Roma) £34m
Andrew Robertson (Hull City) £8m rising to £10m
Dominic Solanke (Chelsea) Compensation
OUT:
Kevin Stewart (Hull City) £8m
Lucas Leiva (Lazio) £5m
Andre Wisdom (Derby) Undisclosed
Adam Phillips (Norwich) Free
Ryan Fulton (Hamilton) Free
Shamal George (Carlisle United) Loan
Connor Randall (Hearts) Loan
Pedro Chirivella (Willem II) Loan
Taiwo Awoniyi (Royal Excel Mouscron) Loan
Tom Brewitt (Released)
Jake Brimmer (Released)
Jack Dunn (Released)
Madger Gomes (Released)
Kane Lewis (Released)
Adam Phillips (Released)
Alex Manninger (Retired)
11. MANCHESTER CITY
IN:
Benjamin Mendy (AS Monaco) £51m
Kyle Walker (Tottenham) £50m
Bernardo Silva (AS Monaco) £43m
Danilo (Real Madrid) £26.9m
Ederson (Benfica) £34.7m
Douglas Luiz (Vasco da Gama) £10m
OUT:
Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) £23.5m
Nolito (Sevilla) £8m
Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield) £8m
Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma) £4.5m
Fernando (Galatasaray) £4.5m
Olivier Ntcham (Celtic) £4m
Enes Unal (Villarreal) Undisclosed
Bruno Zuculini (Verona) Undisclosed
Angus Gunn (Norwich) Loan
Ashley Smith-Brown (Hearts) Loan
Bersant Celina (Ipswich) Loan
Joe Hart (West Ham) Loan
Aleix Garcia (Girona) Loan
Douglas Luiz (Girona) Loan
Marlos Moreno (Girona) Loan
Pablo Zabaleta (West Ham) Free
Willy Caballero (Chelsea) Free
Gael Clichy (Istanbul Basaksehir) Free
Joe Coveney (Nottingham Forest) Free
Jesus Navas (Released)
Bacary Sagna (Released)
Callum Bullock (Released)
Thomas O’Brien (Released)
Kane Plummer (Released)
12. MANCHESTER UNITED
IN:
Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) £40m
Romelu Lukaku (Everton) £75m
Victor Lindelof (Benfica) £31m
OUT:
Adnan Januzaj (Real Sociedad) £9.8m
Wayne Rooney (Everton) Undisclosed
Josh Harrop (Preston) Undisclosed
Devonte Redmond (Scunthorpe) Loan
Regan Poole (Northampton) Loan
Dean Henderson (Shrewsbury) Loan
Sam Johnstone (Aston Villa) Loan
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Released)
13. NEWCASTLE UNITED
IN:
Jacob Murphy (Norwich) £12m
Florian Lejeune (Eibar) £8.7m
Christian Atsu (Chelsea) £6.2m
Javi Manquillo (Atletico Madrid) £4.5m
Mikel Merino (Borussia Dortmund) Loan
Stefan O’Connor (Arsenal) Free
Josef Yarney (Everton) Free
OUT:
Daryl Murphy (Nottingham Forest) £2m
Yoan Gouffran (Goztepe) Undisclosed
Florian Thauvin (Marseille) Undisclosed
Kevin Mbabu (BSC Young Boys) Undisclosed
Lewis Gibson (Everton) Undisclosed
Matz Sels (Anderlecht) Loan
Alex Gilliead (Bradford) Loan
Tom Heardman (Bury) Loan
Adam Armstrong (Bolton) Loan
Sean Longstaff (Blackpool) Loan
Vurnon Anita (Leeds) Free
Haris Vuckic (FC Twente) Free
Lubomir Satka (DAC 1904) Free
Sammy Ameobi (Bolton) Free
Steven Taylor (Released)
Jamie Cobain (Released)
Louis Johnson (Released)
Adam Laidler (Released)
Ben Pollock (Released)
Lewis Suddick (Released)
Jake Trodd (Released)
14. SOUTHAMPTON
IN:
Jan Bednarek (Lech Poznan) Free
OUT:
Jay Rodriguez (West Brom) £12m
Jason McCarthy (Barnsley) Undisclosed
Lloyd Isgrove (Barnsley) Free
Olufela Olomola (Yeovil) Loan
Harrison Reed (Norwich) Loan
Harry Lewis (Dundee United) Loan
Ryan Seager (MK Dons) Loan
Cuco Martina (Everton) Free
Lloyd Isgrove (Released)
Harley Willard (Released)
Martin Caceres (Released)
15. STOKE CITY
IN:
Tre Pemberton (Blackburn Rovers) Undisclosed
Josh Tymon (Hull) Undisclosed
Kurt Zouma (Chelsea) Loan
Darren Fletcher (West Brom) Free
OUT:
Jonathan Walters (Burnley) £3m
Marko Arnautovic (West Ham) Undisclosed
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) Undisclosed
Daniel Bachmann (Watford) Free
Shay Given (Released)
Liam Edwards (Released)
Harry Isted (Released)
Joel Taylor (Released)
George Waring (Released)
16. SWANSEA CITY
IN:
Roque Mesa (Las Palmas) £11m
Cian Harries (Coventry City) £500k
Erwin Mulder (Heerenveen) Free
Tammy Abraham (Chelsea) Loan
OUT:
Jack Cork (Burnley) £10m
Bafetimbi Gomis (Galatasaray) £2.5m
Modou Barrow (Reading) £1.45m
Alex Samuel (Stevenage) Free
Liam Edwards (Hull) Free
Josh Vickers (Lincoln) Free
Liam Shephard (Peterborough) Free
Daniel James (Shrewsbury) Loan
Borja Baston (Malaga) Loan
Jordi Amat (Real Betis) Loan
Connor Roberts (Middlesbrough) Loan
Keston Davies (Yeovil) Loan
Franck Tabanou (Released)
Gerhard Tremmel (Released)
Marvin Emnes (Released)
Owain Jones (Released)
Tom Dyson (Released)
Tom Holland (Released)
17. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
IN:
NONE
OUT:
Kyle Walker (Manchester City) £50m
Nabil Bentaleb (Schalke) £16.8m
Clinton Njie (Marseille) £8m
Luke McGee (Portsmouth) Undisclosed
Federico Fazio (Roma) Undisclosed
Connor Ogilvie (Gillingham) Loan
Josh Onomah (Aston Villa) Loan
Filip Lesniak (Released)
Tom McDermott (Released)
Joe Muscatt (Released)
Charlie Owens (Released)
Zenon Stylianides (Released)
18. WATFORD
IN:
Will Hughes (Derby) £8m
Tom Cleverley (Everton) Undisclosed
Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea) Undisclosed
Daniel Bachmann (Stoke) Free
Kiko Femenia (Alaves) Free
OUT:
Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord) Undisclosed
Mario Suarez (Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng FC) Undisclosed
Dennon Lewis (Crawley) Loan
Rene Gilmartin (Colchester) Free
Mathias Ranegie (Released)
Ola Adeyemo (Released)
Charlie Bannister (Released)
Ogo Obi (Released)
Rhyle Ovenden (Released)
Juan Carlos Paredes (Released)
19. WEST BROMWICH ALBION
IN:
Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) £12m
Yuning Zhang (Vitesse) Undisclosed
Ahmed Hegazi (Al Ahly) Loan
OUT:
Darren Fletcher (Stoke) Free
Sebastien Pocognoli (Standard Liege) Free
Yuning Zhang (Werder Bremen) Loan
Daniel Barbir (Released)
Zachary Elbouzedi (Released)
Callam Jones (Released)
Jack Rose (Released)
Andre Wright (Released)
20. WEST HAM UNITED
IN:
Javier Hernandez (Bayer Leverkusen) £16m
Marko Arnautovic (Stoke) Undisclosed
Pablo Zabaleta (Man City) Free
Joe Hart (Man City) Loan
OUT:
Ashley Fletcher (Middlesbrough) £6.5m
Enner Valencia (Tigres) £5m
Darren Randolph (Middlesbrough) £4m
Havard Nordtveit (Hoffenheim) Undisclosed
George Dobson (Sparta Rotterdam) Undisclosed
Reece Oxford (Borussia Monchengladbach) Loan
Stephen Hendrie (Southend) Free
Reece Burke (Bolton) Loan
Josh Cullen (Bolton) Loan
Sam Howes (Released)
Sam Ford (Released)
Kyle Knoyle (Released)
Sam Westley (Released)
Alvaro Arbeloa (Retired)
Thomas Partey, who formerly played for English Premier League soccer club Arsenal, has been charged with rape and sexual assault, London’s Metropolitan Police said on Friday.
Partey, a Ghana international, was charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, with the charges relating to three women and the offences reported to have taken place between 2021 and 2022, the statement said.
Partey’s management did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
He is due to appear at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Aug. 5.
Partey, 32, was signed by Arsenal from Atletico Madrid for 50 million euros ($59 million) in October 2020 and became a key member of Arsenal’s first team.
He was first arrested in July 2022, though he was not named at the time and continued to play for Arsenal while investigations were ongoing.
-Reuters
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Five players including England forward Marcus Rashford and Argentina winger Alejandro Garnacho have informed Manchester United that they wish to explore a future away from the Premier League side, a club source said on Friday.
Brazilian midfielder Antony, Dutch defender Tyrell Malacia and England international Jadon Sancho are also looking to leave the club, the source added.
Rashford, who has made more than 400 senior appearances for United, has fallen out of favour with manager Ruben Amorim, played for Aston Villa on loan while United had their worst-ever Premier League campaign, finishing 15th in the standings.
Amorim had called Rashford’s work rate into question, saying he would rather put a goalkeeper coach on the bench than a player not giving their all.
Rashford said he was feeling fitter and better since joining Villa, where he scored two goals in 10 league appearances.
United also failed to qualify for the Champions League as they lost the Europa League final 1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur. Garnacho, who was a late substitute in the final, voiced his displeasure on social media after the loss.
“Up until the final, I played every round helping the team, and today I play 20 minutes, I don’t know,” he wrote in a post . “The final will influence (my decision), but the whole season, the situation of the club.”
Sancho was on loan at Chelsea, where he made 31 league appearances last season. Antony, who joined United from Ajax Amsterdam in 2022 for a reported initial transfer fee of more than $100 million, scored five goals in 17 LaLiga appearances on loan at Real Betis.
Malacia joined Dutch side PSV Eindhoven on loan in February.
-Reuters
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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes turned down the opportunity to join Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal in order to keep playing “at the highest level”, he said on Tuesday.
The Portuguese midfielder admitted that he had considered the move, which media reports said was worth four times his current salary, after being contacted by Al-Hilal’s president.
“There was that possibility, the president of Al-Hilal called me a month ago to ask me about it,” Fernandes, who is preparing to face Germany with Portugal, told reporters on Tuesday.
“It was a big offer, very ambitious. There was a waiting period for me to think about the future.”
Fernandes ultimately decided to stay at United and said he was motivated by his desire to continue playing at the top level and encouraged by his family and the club’s coach Ruben Amorim.
“I would be willing to do it if Manchester United thought so,” Fernandes added. “I spoke to the coach Ruben Amorim who really tried to talk me out of it. The club said they would not be willing to sell me, only if I wanted to leave.
“I spoke to my wife and family, and she asked me what my personal goals were in my career.
“It would have been easy to move there but I want to keep myself at the highest level, playing in the big competitions and I feel capable of it. I am happy with my decision.”
The 30-year-old Fernandes scored 19 goals and provided 19 assists in 57 appearances across all competitions for United last season, winning the club’s Player of the Year award for the fourth time.
However, it was a season to forget for the team, as they finished 15th in the Premier League, their lowest league finish in half a century, and lost the Europa League final to Tottenham Hotspur.
-Reuters
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