Napoli
Galatasaray’s former Italy national coach Cesare Prandelli built up his squad ahead of their Champions League campaign by signing Macedonian international striker Goran Pandev and Swiss midfielder Blerim Dzemaili from Serie A side Napoli on Monday.
According to the Italian media Galatasaray paid EU€4 million (Dh19.2m) for the duo.
Pandev, 31 and who has scored 26 goals in 75 international appearances, signed a one year contract with the option of extending it for another year and sees him leave Italy after 13 years which has seen him play for among other clubs Inter Milan and Lazio.
Dzemaili, 28 and a member of the Swiss squad for both the 2010 and 2014 World Cups scoring in the 5-2 group stage loss to France in this year’s edition, signed a three year contract.
Galatasaray have been drawn in Champions League Group D with English giants Arsenal, 2013 finalists Borussia Dortmund and Belgian champions Anderlecht.
FC Porto
Highly-regarded Brazilian teenage attacking midfielder Otavio signed for Portuguese side Porto on Monday from Internacional Porto Alegre for a fee reported to be €7m.
The 19-year-old, who had been with Internacional for three years, signed a five year contract with Porto which includes a buyout clause of €50m.
Otavio could find himself making his Champions League debut this month when the campaign begins with Porto drawn in Group H along with Ukraine’s 2009 Uefa Cup winners Shakhtar Donetsk, Spanish outfit Athletic Bilbao, making their first appearance in the group stage for 16 years, and Belarus minnows BATE Borisov.
Olympiakos
Former Argentina international Javier Saviola left Greek champions Olympiakos for Italian Serie A side Verona on Monday.
Olympiakos signed Serbian international midfielder Luka Milivojevic on loan from Belgian outfit Anderlecht while on a busy day for them they also saw their Greek international defender Avraam Papadopoulos sign for Turkish top tier side Trabzonspor.
They also sent French-born Malian international midfielder Sambou Yatabare on loan to French Ligue 1 side Guingamp.
Saviola, 32 and capped 40 times scoring 11 goals for the national side, played an important role in Olympiakos’s title win last term hitting the net 12 times in 26 appearances.
Milivojevic, 23, has played seven tiles for the Serbian national team and last season played in 19 games for Anderlecht.
Papadopoulos, capped 36 times since making his debut in 2008, has been at Olympiakos for six years scoring five goals.
AC Milan
AC Milan pulled the plug on a deal to sign Jonathan Biabiany from Parma on transfer deadline day but did snap up Giacomo Bonaventura from Atalanta.
Milan abandoned the move for Frenchman Biabiany after full-back Cristian Zaccardo refused to move in the opposite direction on loan, and after Biabiany had appeared on the club’s website in a Milan scarf.
However, the Rossoneri did wrap up a deal to take Bonaventura, 25, on a five-year deal.
His arrival caps a busy few days for Milan, who also brought in Chelsea pair Fernando Torres and Marco van Ginkel on loan deals.
Milan have also signed Real Madrid goalkeeper Diego Lopez, Paris Saint-Germain duo Alex and Jeremy Menez and Udinese’s Colombian full-back Pablo Armero this summer, while completing a permanent deal for France defender Adil Rami, who had been on loan from Valencia.
Milan started the new Serie A season with a 3-1 victory against Lazio on Sunday.
Marseille
Teenage Brazilian defender Doria has left Botafogo for Marseille on a five-year deal, the Ligue 1 club announced shortly before Monday night’s transfer deadline.
Capped once by Brazil, the 19-year-old arrives at the Stade Velodrome for a fee equivalent to that which OM received for selling another Brazilian defender, Lucas Mendes, to El Jaish in Qatar, the club said.
That means Marseille have spent around €5m for Doria, who said: “I am very pleased, honoured and proud to join OM. They are one of the biggest clubs in Europe, very well known in Brazil.”
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