Confirmed Transfers

[MaSsiVe]

Hector Quiñones (Junior Barranquilla) -> Porto

 

[Coruja]

Hulk [porto] --> Zenit

http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=350685

Official, in Zenit's website

 

[MaSsiVe]

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Anxious to know about the fee

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€60M it seems...good enough I guess.

 

[Deisler]

Wow. That came out of nowhere.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Wow! God the Champions League is gonna have some quality matches in years to come...

And it's only 50m Euros, not 60.

 

[Back Door Skip]

"Only"

 

[MaSsiVe]

I don't buy that, a few days ago our president said that for €50M he wouldn't leave us.

Let's wait for the official announcement of the fee to get this cleared up.

 

[Master Pi a Gi]

Axel Witsel (SL Benfica) to Zenit

 

[Sir Calumn]

My understanding was that 50 was always the price (£38-9m), and that the only reason he didnt go to Chelsea is because Roman refused to go above £32m.

 

[Coruja]

axel witsel (sl benfica) to zenit

40 m €

 

[MaSsiVe]

Sir_Didier_Drogba I was talking about an offer from Zenit last week, worth €50M.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Yeah but I dont see why they would set that as the price for Chelsea then not accept it from Zenit (well, actually, I kind of do I guess as he wouldnt have been so eager personally for a move to Russia), but ALL the reports I am reading are saying €50m.

Anyway makes very little difference to me really!

 

[MaSsiVe]

yeah, whichever the fee is I'm still gonna have to keep paying for my beer too


Landing Witsel is another spectacular move by Zenit, great player.

 

[Arnau]

is arshavin still at zenit or back to arsenal?

 

[MaSsiVe]

He doesn't feature in Zenit's squad at their site, so he might be back at Arsenal.

Officially €40M for Hulk, for 85% of his sporting rights. Meh!

 

[Sir Calumn]

What does 85% of his sporting rights mean? Does that mean you've retained 15% of his future fees, or is there some third party ownership thing going on?

Arshavin is back at Arsenal, surprised they didnt try harder to offload him.

 

[MaSsiVe]

A third party still retains 15% of his sporting rights, so we got €40M for the 85% we held.

 

[Sir Calumn]

I see. Oh well, to be honest I think that's closer to his genuine value.

 

[MaSsiVe]

yeah, he's no James Rodríguez.

 

[MaSsiVe]

Still concerning the Hulk deal, latest word is that Zenit paid a grand total of €60M for him: 40M to Porto, 11M to that third party, 9M to Hulk and his agent.