Transfer Market

Transfer market has ended about a week ago now (September 1^st, 12:00am). Mainly, it was these 2 players, Robinho (L) and Dimitar Berbatov (R), that made most of the headlines.

In the beginning, I was really unsure on the capture of Berbatov, as he was frozen out from the first team in Tottenham, due to his pleas to be transferred to Manchester United (ManUtd). ManUtd is only willing to pay £25million to £27million for his services but Tottenham hold firm on wanting £30million for the striker. That made me wonder if he was REALLY that worthy...

However, at the stroke of midnight, on September 1^st, the incredible happened:
Dimitar Berbatov signed for ManUtd for a reported fee of £30.75million from Tottenham. He chose to don the colors of ManUtd instead of the wages offered by ManUtd's rival, Manchester City (ManCity) - who was trying to snatch him under the noses of ManUtd at £32million.

I'm glad that ManUtd finally captured Berbatov as I think he's technically better than Ruud van Nistelrooy. Hopefully he'll bang in goals for the Red Devils. ManUtd's young striker, Frazier Campbell, moved to Tottenham on a one-year loan deal.

Berbatov departure signaled the capture of Russia's Roman Pavlyuchenko to Tottenham (below) for £14million.
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ManCity did their part in the transfer market too - peeped Chelsea in the race to sign Brazilian ace, Robinho from Real Madrid for a British record £32.5million.

Wondering where did ManCity managed to get a huge figure of transfer fund, the club was taken over by Abu Dhabi United Group. Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim was the mastermind in the transfer market of ManCity. He even visioned and vowed to build his own "dream team", by promising manager Mark Hughes a staggering £500million transfer fund!!

Here are the players and the transfer bid of the doc is willing to pay to build his very own "dream team":
1. Cristiano Ronaldo (ManUtd) - £135million
2. Fernando Torres (Liverpool) - £50million
3. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) - £80million
4. Kaka (AC Milan) - £80million
5. Cecs Fabregas (Arsenal) - £80million

Now, the question is... "Can money buy success? Or failure?"

In my opinion, I shall evaluate ManCity's performance halfway through the season. Wonder how far can they go ;p