Last minute Transfers and upcoming Transfer predictions - Part 1
With only five days left in the transfer market, all the clubs are getting their last minute deals done and all the papers that have been ready for weeks are being filled.
The last week is always the most exciting week of the transfer season, with having almost equivalent activity as that of the whole transfer season. Like always all the deals that seemed blocked and next to impossible seem to be falling into place.
Some deals that were waiting to be signed at the last minute fall right into place and some just seem to fall through the cracks and never become a reality.
Now we will look over ten of the biggest transfer deals that have taken place in the last few years.
Real Madrid to Inter Milan: Wesley Sneijder
Sneijder came to Inter Milan from Lose Blancos, in the last five days of the transfer season and it was a definitely one of the biggest last minute deals of the summer.
The irony in this transfer was that Real Madrid did give away the midfielder in the transfer but Wesley Sneijder went on and literally led the club to the famous Inter Milan treble. This also was the year when he won the title of UEFA European Player of the Year and the most interesting factor was that he won this title exactly a year after his move to Inter Milan.
Wesley Sneijder was not sure about his move to Inter Milan in the start as he still wanted to stay with Real Madrid and had intended to fight for his spot. However with the club bringing in Kaka, Xabi Alonso and the famous Cristiano Ronaldo, the Dutch star was forced out to cover the expenses as Rolando’s transfer alone cost Eighty Million pounds which is the highest transfer fee to date.
Sneijder’s fifteen million pound deal was not one of the most interesting or astonishing deals of the summer but it did turn out to be a very smart one.
Real Madrid to Bayern Munich: Arjen Robben
For the die-hard Real Madrid fans, the summer of 2009 will always be the summer when the club acquired two of the best players in the world. Though it is also the summer when they lost two of their most prized assets as the second Dutchman to be sold off for transfer money was Arjen Robben.
In spite of being a very talented and brilliant player Robben never maintained his fitness and was put on the market with more or less, the same reasons why Sneijder was put there and that was to pay the transfer cost of bringing on the new players.
First it seemed like Bernabeu was going to bag Robben but in the end Bayern Munich signed Arjen Robben and his play with the new club made Real Madrid repent on their decision to sell him off in the first place.
Bayern Munich paid twenty five million pounds for the player and Robben reimbursed the team by scoring twenty three goals for the club that summer and lead the club to a domestic double and a spot in the Champions League final.
Tottenham Hotspur to Manchester United: Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Barbatov sealed the deal on his move to Manchester United in literally the final hours before the transfer window closed. Berbatov moved to Manchester United in the summer of 2008, the red devils got the Bulgarian centre forward services at their disposal.
However with Tottenham Hotspur not waving off one bit on the player’s price, Manchester United had to pay almost thirty one million Pounds for the player to move him away from White Hart Lane.
When Berbatov joined ‘The Red Devils’ there was a lot expected from him as he had such an amazing last summer while playing for the ‘Lily Whites’ and this was a major factor as to why his prices sky rocketed in the transfer season. While playing only two seasons fot the Spurs, Bebratov netted forty six goals and led the team to almost enter the Champions league.
It has been two years since Berbatov moved to Manchester United and still some fan and critics say that the club over paid for him.
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