Major Transfers

Major transfers in English Premier League

Arsenal

French defender Mickael Silvestre from Manchester United; French midfielder Amaury Bischoff from Werder Bremen; French midfielder Samir Nasri from Marseille for a fee of €14.5m; Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey from Cardiff City; Mexican forward Carlos Vela (loan return) from Osasuna.

Aston Villa

Midfielder James Milner from Newcastle United for a fee of €12.5m; Spanish defender Carlos Cuellar from Glasgow Rangers for a fee of €10m; Defender Luke Young from Middlesbrough for a fee of €6.4m; Defender Nicky Shorey from Reading for a fee of €4.4m; American goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Blackburn Rovers for a fee of €2.5m; American goalkeeper Brad Guzan from CD Chivas for a fee of €1m; Midfielder Steve Sidwell from Chelsea for a fee of €6.2m; Defender Curtis Davies from West Brom for a fee of €10m.

Blackburn

Goalkeeper Mark Bunn from Northampton; Australian midfielder Vince Grella from Torino for a fee of €5.5m; Defender Danny Simpson on loan from Manchester United; Paraguayan forward Julio Santa Cruz from Cerro Porteno; Chilean midfielder Carlos Villanueva on loan from Audax Italiano; Chilean midfielder Carlos Villanueva from Audax Italiano for a fee of €1m; Forward Robbie Fowler on a free transfer from Cardiff City; Goalkeeper Paul Robinson from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of €4.4m.

Bolton

Polish forward Ebi Smolarek on loan from Racing Santander; Nigerian defender Daniel Shittu from Watford; Dutch forward Mustapha Riga from Levante; Swedish forward Johan Elmander from Toulouse for a fee of €12.6m; Midfielder Fabrice Muamba from Birmingham City for a fee of €6.5m.

Chelsea

Portuguese midfielder Deco from Barcelona for a fee of €10m; Portuguese midfielder Bosingwa from Porto for a fee of €20m.

Everton

Goalkeeper Carlo Nash from Wigan Athletic; Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini from Standard for a fee of €18.5m; French forward Louis Saha from Manchester United; Ecuadorian midfielder Segundo Castillo on loan from Red Star Belgrade; Danish defender Lars Jacobsen on a free transfer from Nurnberg; South African midfielder Steven Pienaar (permanent signing) from Borussia Dortmund for a fee of €2.6m.

Fulham

Midfielder Julian Gray on loan from Coventry City; Nigerian midfielder Dickson Etuhu from Sunderland; Forward Andy Johnson from Everton for a fee of €13.2m; Forward Andy Johnson from Everton; Swedish defender Fredrik Stoor from Rosenborg; Swiss goalkeeper Pascal Zuberbuhler on a free transfer from Xamax; Forward Bobby Zamora from West Ham United for a fee of €4.1m; Ghanaian defender John Paintsil from West Ham United for a fee of €3.8m; Iranian midfielder Andranik Teymourian on a free transfer from Bolton Wanderers; Hungarian forward Zoltan Gera from West Bromwich Albion; Goalkeeper David Stockdale from Darlington; Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer on a free transfer from Middlesbrough.

Hull City

Gabon forward Daniel Cousin from Glasgow Rangers; Jamaican forward Marlon King on loan from Wigan Athletic; Goalkeeper Mark Oxley from Rotherham United; Defender Anthony Gardner (permanent signing) from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of €3.1m; Hungarian midfielder Peter Halmosi from Plymouth; Goalkeeper Tony Warner on a free transfer from Fulham; French defender Bernard Mendy on a free transfer from Paris St. Germain; Dutch midfielder George Boateng from Middlesbrough for a fee of €1.3m; Brazilian midfielder Geovanni from Manchester City; Forward Craig Fagan (permanent signing) from Derby County.

Liverpool

Spanish midfielder Albert Riera from Espanyol; Hungarian goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi (permanent signing) from MTK Budapest; Brazilian forward Vitor Flora on a free transfer from Botafogo; Irish forward Robbie Keane from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of €25m; French forward David Ngog from Paris St. Germain for a fee of €1.5m; Brazilian goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri from Palmeiras for a fee of €4.4m; Danish forward Nikola Saric from Herfolge; Italian defender Andrea Dossena from Udinese for a fee of €9m; Swiss defender Philipp Degen from Borussia Dortmund.

Manchester City

Brazilian forward Robinho from Real Madrid for a fee of €40m; Brazilian defender Glauber Berti from Nurnberg; Argentinean midfielder Zabaleta from Espanyol; Midfielder Shaun Wright-Phillips from Chelsea; Belgian defender Vincent Kompany from Hamburger; Israeli defender Tal Ben Haim from Chelsea for a fee of €6.4m; Brazilian forward Jo from CSKA Moscow for a fee of €24m.

Manchester United

Bulgarian forward Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of €38m; Angolan forward Manucho (loan return) from Panathinaikos Athens.

Middlesbrough

Defender Justin Hoyte from Arsenal London for a fee of €3.8m; Dutch forward Marvin Emnes from Sparta Rotterdam for a fee of €4m; French forward Didier Digard from Paris St. Germain for a fee of €5m.

Newcastle

Uruguayan midfielder Ignacio Gonzalez on loan from Valencia; Spanish forward Xisco from Deportivo La Coruna for a fee of €7m; Argentinean defender Fabricio Coloccini from Deportivo La Coruna for a fee of €13m; Midfielder Danny Guthrie from Liverpool for a fee of €4.3m; Argentinean midfielder Jonas Gutierrez from Mallorca for a fee of €6.3m.

Portsmouth

Algerian defender Nadir Belhadj on loan from Lens; French defender Armand Traore on loan from Arsenal; Midfielder Jerome Thomas (permanent signing) from Charlton Athletic; Midfielder Jerome Thomas on loan from Charlton Athletic; French defender Younes Kaboul from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of €7.7m; Forward Peter Crouch from Liverpool for a fee of €13.8m; Israeli forward Ben Sahar on loan from Chelsea; Midfielder Glen Little on a free transfer from Reading.

Tottenham

Forward Fraizer Campbell on loan from Manchester United; Croatian defender Vedran Corluka from Manchester City for a fee of €10.5m; Spanish goalkeeper Cesar from Zaragoza; Forward David Bentley from Blackburn Rovers for a fee of €19m; Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes from PSV Eindhoven; Brazilian defender Giovani dos Santos from Barcelona for a fee of €6m; Croatian midfielder Luka Modric from Dinamo Zagreb for a fee of €21m.

West Brom

Swedish defender Jonas Olsson from Nijmegen for a fee of €1m; Dutch defender Ryan Donk on loan from AZ Alkmaar; Spanish midfielder Borja Valero from Mallorca for a fee of €6m; Ivory Coast defender Abdoulaye Meite from Bolton for a fee of €2.5m; Goalkeeper Scott Carson from Liverpool for a fee of €4.1m; Slovakian defender Marek Cech from Porto for a fee of €1.8m; Scottish forward Graham Dorrans from Livingston; Dutch defender Gianni Zuiverloon from Heerenveen for a fee of €4m; South Korean midfielder Do-Heon Kim from Seongnam Ilhwa.

West Ham

Czech goalkeeper Jan Lastuvka on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk; Swiss midfielder Valon Behrami from Lazio for a fee of €6m.

Wigan

Midfielder Lee Cattermole from Middlesbrough for a fee of €4.5m; French midfielder Olivier Kapo from Birmingham City; Egyptian forward Amr Zaky on loan from Zamalek; Dutch midfielder Daniel De Ridder on a free transfer from Birmingham City.

Man. Utd. 2.9 : Manchester United have completed the signing of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur on the final day of English football's summer transfer window. The Bulgaria striker has signed a four-year contract with the English champions, with United paying an undisclosed fee, thought to be around €38m. Berbatov will wear the No. 9 shirt that was freed after United sold Louis Saha to Everton.

As part of the deal, 20-year-old United striker Fraizer Campbell will spend the rest of the campaign with Tottenham. Berbatov, who joined the Spurs from Bayer Leverkusen in 2006, scored 23 goals in 52 appearances last season. With the transfer window now closed, 27-year-old Berbatov was the only major addition to a squad that won last season's UEFA Champions League and Premier League.

Man. City 2.9 : Manchester City beat Chelsea to the signing of Brazil striker Robinho by agreeing to pay Real Madrid a British-record €40m transfer fee. On a remarkable day at Eastlands, City also confirmed that owner Thaksin Shinawatra had agreed to sell the club to the Abu Dhabi United Group. The takeover fee is believed to be worth up to €247m. Robinho has signed a four-year contract with Manchester City after the Spanish champions rejected Chelsea's initial €32m bid.

Robinho had repeatedly spoken of his desire to leave Real Madrid for Chelsea, but City, boosted by a windfall from an imminent takeover by a United Arab Emirates business group, made a huge offer for the 24-year-old. Spanish media reported that that City will pay Robinho €6m per season, about three times what he reportedly earned in Madrid. Robinho had spent the last three years with Real, making 101 Primera Division appearances and scoring 25 times.

Newcast. 2.9 : Valencia have signed Uruguayan international midfielder Ignacio "Nacho" Gonzalez from Danubio and immediately loaned the player to Newcastle United. So, Gonzalez, who has put pen to paper on a four-year deal with the Spanish club, will spend the 2008/09 campaign in England's Premier League. Newcastle have also landed striker Xisco in a reported €7m transfer from Deportivo La Coruna. The 22-year-old has accepted a five-year contract with the Premiership club.

Tottenh. 31.8 : Tottenham Hotspur have completed the signing of Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow for a fee reported to be in the region of €17m. Further contract details for the 26-year-old have not been released. Pavlyuchenko should provide a significant boost to Tottenham, who have struggled in the opening weeks of the season following the sale of Robbie Keane to Liverpool and a lengthy impasse over Dimitar Berbatov's likely transfer to Manchester United. Pavlyuchenko scored 69 goals in 141 league games for Spartak.

Man. City 31.8 : Manchester City added two South American defenders to their squad, signing Pablo Zabaleta and Glauber Berti for undisclosed fees. Argentinian international Zabaleta, 23, who can also play in midfield, has agreed a five-year deal after spending three seasons at Spanish side Espanyol. Brazilian centre-back Glauber, 25, arrives from Greman club Nurnberg and has signed a one-year contract at City.

Ast. Villa 30.8 : Midfielder James Milner, 22, from Newcastle has returned to Aston Villa. He has signed a four-year deal for a reported €12.4 million. Milner made his Premier League debut for Leeds when he was 16. Leeds was relegated in 2004 and Milner joined Newcastle, but was sent to Aston Villa on loan for the 2005/06 season. "James has got a great spirit about him and I definitely think his best years are in front of him," Villa manager Martin O'Neill said. "It was disappointing two years ago not to sign him when we thought the deal was done and dusted but it is nice to have got it all sorted this time."

Everton 30.8 : Everton have signed French international striker Louis Saha from Manchester United for an undisclosed fee. the 30-year-old has agreed a two-year contract with the option of a further season, subject to a medical. Saha scored 42 goals in 124 appearances for United since joining from Fulham in 2003, but has struggled with injuries in the past two season. He has scored 106 goals in 278 appearances in English football.

Man. City 29.8 : Shaun Wright-Phillips has left Chelsea to rejoin Manchester City on a four-year contrcat. The 26-year-old England winger is looking for a fresh start after three faltering years at Stamford Bridge. After switching to the London club in 2005, Wright-Phillips struggled to command a place in the team, starting just 43 matches. Chelsea, who signed him for €30.5m, is thought to have recouped less than half that amount, although financial terms were not disclosed.

Everton 28.8 : Everton have secured the services of Ecuador defensive midfielder Segundo Castillo on a season-long loan from Red Star Belgrade. Everton hope they will receive international clearance for the 26-year-old to play on Saturday against Portsmouth. Castillo and Danish defender Lars Christian Jacobsen were the English Premier League club's only offseason signings.

Blackburn 28.8 : Blackburn Rovers have signed Australia midfielder Vince Grella from Torino on a five-year contract. The 28-year-old arrives at Ewood Park in a deal worth in the region of €5.5m. Grella made 28 Serie A appearances last season as the side staved off the threat of relegation. He joins Australia teammate Brett Emerton at Blackburn.

Portsm. 28.8 : Midfielder Niko Kranjcar will be out of action for at least two months after undergoing ankle surgery. The 24-year-old sustained a knock in Croatia's friendly with Slovenia last week and had an operation to repair a ruptured ankle ligament. Kranjcar will be unable to put any weight on the injured leg for three weeks before beginning rehabilitation work, ruling him out of a crucial period for club and country.