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3 September 2008

Last month marked the end of Michel Der Zakarian’ career with French Ligue 1 team Nantes, and this week the management appointed his replacement: Elie Baup. With this season marking their first since being re-promoted to top flight, it’s been a journey of sad disappointments; the club has managed to earn only one point in four games. They remain at the very bottom of the lists. The new 53-year old coach left Toulouse at the end of last season, and brings with him experience of coaching teams such as Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne. He has signed a contract with Nantes for the next two years.

Newcastle United has acquired two new players as the ‘08/’09 season. 22 year old Striker Xisco and international midfielder Ignacio “Nacho” Gonzalez. Xisco is coming in on the tails of signing a five year contract within the premiership club, to the tune of a reported €7 million. He’s arriving from Deportivo La Coruna. Uruguayan Gonzalez of Danubio was signed to Valencia for 4 years and then immediately lended to Newcastle.

Vedran Corluka has transferred again, keeping the Croatian defender on the move. Last year the 22 year old came to Manchester City from Dinamo Zagreb and scored once in 38 games during the season. Now the right back will be moved to London’s Tottenham Hotspur to play with teammate Luka Modric. Though officially, the details of the move have been kept confidential, unconfirmed resources have claimed the fee is as high as €10.5 million. Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has been transferred to Tottenham for the next 5 years for a fee of €17 million. He arrives this weekend from Spartak Moscow.

A number of changes for the Manchester City club. Owner Thaksin Shinawatra has confirmed to the press his agreement with the Abu Dhabi United group to sell the club for a fee as much as €247 million. With that move comes as well the acquisition of striker Robinho as the city beat out Chelsea’s bids for the Brazil player with what would be a British record fee of €40 million. He comes from Real Madrid by signing a 4 year deal and rejecting Chelsea’s offer of €32 million. Some have been taken by surprise by Robinho’s change of heart, considering his rather public expression to leave Real Madrid for Chelsea. Seems the pending, now confirmed, deal with Abu Dhabi group bolstered  liquid funds enough for the €40 million fee and the extra funding swayed his preference. According to reports, the 24 year old will be earning €6 million per season, approximately three times as much as he was accruing in Madrid. During his time with the club he appeared in 101 Premiera games and scored 25 times.

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