We all know that the end of May signifies the end of competitive football matches amongst clubs, at least in Europe. The English Premier League is over by the middle of May and the final of the Champions League is usually played towards the end of the month. But this is not the end of the football news. Namely, this is the period when the summer transfer windows begin and then the clubs and managers get in action, buying and selling players, securing funds, signing contracts and all the other transfer related activities. With the prices of football transfers soaring, every summer we have transfers more astonishing then the previous ones.
In 2015 we had a lot of great transfers. On the 8th of June, Spaniard Alvaro Negredo of Manchester City was transferred to Valencia for the sum of £22M. Only four days later, Man United signed PSV’s Memphis Depay. United paid for a staggering amount of £31M for the Dutchman. Liverpool paid £21.3M for young Brazilian Roberto Firmino, who played for Hoffenheim, but that was only the initial amount. The Merseyside Reds also brought in Joe Gomez from Charlton, an 18 year old defender, and a great hope for the future, as well as Nathaniel Clyne from Southampton, for an amount of £12.5M. Another player from Southampton, Frenchman Morgan Schneiderlin was sold to Manchester United, for £25M. Australian player and a member of the Australian national team- Socceroos, Jason Davidson joined Huddersfield Town for an undisclosed sum. Jason is the son of Alan Davidson, a former international player who was capped 79 times for the Socceroos. Another Australian, Chris Wood, was moved from Leicester City to Leeds United for a sum of £3m. Frenchman Yohan Cabaye left Paris- Sent-Germain and joined QPR. The London club paid £10m to bring the midfielder at Selhurst Park. Another London club, West Ham, paid £10m for Italian Angelo Ogbonna, who came from Juventus. Quite a few Dutchmen were sold to English clubs this season, with Newcastle United paying £14.5M for PSV Georginio Wijnaldum.
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One of the largest transfers of the summer 2015, was the long-awaited move of Raheem Sterling from Liverpool to Manchester City, for an amazing amount of £49 million. City went on a proper shopping spree and they also bought Patrick Rodgers from Fulham for £12M. Liverpool were quite active as well and they brought in the Belgian striker Christian Benteke from Aston Villa. The Scousers paid £32.5M making Benteke one of their most significant signings this season. Argentinian Angel di Maria left Man United and joined PSG, for an astonishing amount of £44.3M. Barcelona paid €34M for Turk Arda Turan, but they also sold Pedro for something less than €30M to Chelsea. Their rivals, Real Madrid spent over €60M for just two signings, Croat Mateo Kovačić from Inter Milan and Brazilian Danilo from Porto.
As you can see, amongst so many Brazilians, Spaniards, Argentinians, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Germans and Englishmen, one can see quite a few Australians being transferred from one club to another for smaller or larger amounts of money. Many people underestimate the Australian talents when it comes to football, but let us not forget that Tim Cahill, Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka were all Australian. Plus Australia has a lot of talented players abroad, some of whom may turn out to be great stars in the future.
