Transfer Deadline Day Highlights

Transfer deadline day often fails to live up to its billing as the most exciting day of the summer session. The final day for clubs to roll the dice on new players ahead of the new season tends to come and go without intrigue.

Robinho Finally Pleases Everyone. In the summer of 2008, Sky Blues fans witnessed what they thought would be the first in a long line of victories over their Premiership rivals. Fending off the challenge of Chelsea for the £32 million talents of Robinho, Sheikh Mansour turned the football world on its head. Robinho‘s time in the North-West has been anything but a success and exactly two years on, the Brazilian winger has stolen the headlines again. Joining AC Milan on a four-year deal, Robinho departs England with a smile on his face and City fans thrilled to see the back of the lazy lump.

Arsene Knows? Over the past decade Arsene Wenger has fine-tuned the art of selling players at exactly the right time. Emmanuel Adebayor left for £25 million last summer and Manchester City couldn’t fetch hal

f that now. Alexander Hleb joined Barcelona for £14 million in the summer of 2008 and the Belarus midfielder has just resurfaced on loan at Birmingham. Unfortunately Arsene‘s sixth sense does not stretch to the goalkeeping department. A proven chink in Arsenal‘s title challenge, Arsene Wenger has thus far been unable to find an heir apparent to Jens Lehmann. Fulham‘s Mark Schwarzer and Manchester City‘s Shay Given were earmarked as potential goalkeeping solutions but in the end neither moved. The Gunners‘s old adage ‘Arsene Knows‘ is beginning to look transparent when held against the backdrop of Manuel Almunia between the sticks.

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