Premier League clubs have spent £922m and counting with just seven days remaining until the transfer window closes. Yet for the first time in more than a decade, they look set to be usurped from the top of the spending table by La Liga's summer spree, which has already passed the £1bn mark for the very first time. After Spain's dominance in Europe was broken last season, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have all flexed their financial muscle by pulling off three of the 10 biggest transfers of all time. That has pushed spending by Spanish top-flight clubs to £1.06bn as of midday on 1 August, and with more than a month to go until their transfer window closes, they could close in on the Premier League's record spend of £1.4bn from 2017. Eden Hazard, Joao Felix and Antoine Griezmann are three of those to head to Spain but other than Arsenal and ...
Barcelona and Sevilla have reached an agreement for the transfer of Aleix Vidal, Sport reports. The Spanish outlet claims the teams have been negotiating for weeks and have finally struck an accord on a deal worth somewhere in the region of €8.5 million (£7.5m/$10m), plus €2m in variables. The full-back is now expected to leave Barcelona's tour of the United States, while, coincidentally, Bayern Munich's Arturo Vidal is set to travel to Catalunya.
The Sweden international has hinted at leaving RB Leipzig by airing his dream of playing for one of "the strongest clubs in the world" Emil Forsberg has offered hope to the likes of Arsenal , Liverpool and Roma by hinting that he could be on his way out of RB Leipzig this summer. The Sweden international is under contract in Germany until 2022, but has suggested that a move elsewhere could be on the cards. Having impressed over the course of four years with Leipzig, interest in the 26-year-old has been building steadily . Leading sides in England and Italy are said to be plotting big-money moves, with Forsberg conceding that he hopes to be turning out for one of “the strongest clubs in the world” in the not too distant future. He told Fotbollskanalen : “I'm ready for the next big step. That's going to be very interesting. “I am in dialogue with RB and always had a good relationship with the c...
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