What you missed while your foot was heading to Vancouver…
- U.S. Open Cup semifinal roundup: Chicago 2-1 Richmond Kickers, Seattle 1-0 FC Dallas.
- Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney credits his form revival to his hair transplants.
- Manchester City are looking to sign free agent midfielder Owen Hargreaves to a one-year contract; Man City’s physios are looking forward to working with him.
- Chelsea can’t loan Romelu Lukaku to Stoke City because Lukaku can’t play for three clubs in one transfer period per Premier League rules.
- Arsenal have signed South Korean striker Park Chu-young from Monaco.
- Arsenal MAY have signed Werder Bremen centerback Per Mertesacker; Werder Bremen says the deal’s done, but Arsenal haven’t announced it as of yet.
- Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko wants regular first team football and may push to move to Sunderland to get it; interestingly enough, Sunderland manager Steve Bruce wants another striker.
- Liverpool midfielder Joe Cole has joined Lille on a season long loan.
- Liverpool have confirmed the signing of Nacional centerback Sebastian Coates for about £7 million; Coates claims that fellow Uruguayan Luis Suarez convinced him to sign up at Anfield.
- Liverpool have accepted a bid from Evian for midfielder Christian Poulsen.
- Bolton may have signed Liverpool striker David N’Gog.
- Bolton midfielder Stuart Holden returned to action for the first time in six months last night, playing 80 minutes in a reserve team match that saw Bolton lose 7-0 to Fulham.
- Fulham have signed FC Twente midfielder Bryan Ruiz for £10.6 million.
- Newcastle have signed Inter fullback Davide Santon to a five year deal; the transfer fee is rumored to be about £5 million.
- QPR and Sunderland have agreed to a fee for centerback Anton Ferdinand.
- Brighton & Hove Albion may make a move to sign former Valencia winger Vicente on a free transfer; Vicente’s contract expired this summer.
- Borussia Mönchengladbach midfielder Michael Bradley could move to Chievo.
- Hamburg winger Eljero Elia has joined Juventus on a four year deal.
- Wolfsburg defender Simon Kjaer has joined Roma on a season-long loan.
- Hoffenheim midfielder Fabian Johnson won’t make his debut for the U.S. national team in September due to a paperwork issue.
- PSG’s summer spending shot up to €83 million with the capture of Diego Lugano from Fenerbahce.
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Spurs announced the signing of Scott Parker.
Sad to see Parker go, but we knew it was coming and I wish him the best. Been a pleasure watching him, even when everything around him was awful. Now we’ll see if Sam can actually bring in the midfield help he’s been talking about for two weeks. And yes, I realize no one else cares about West Ham.
And now Arsenal sign a bunch of guys. I guess they wait till they don’t have enough players to put on the pitch before raiding the money jar.
Since when was Fabian Johnson an American?