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22/12 Lionel Messi receives 2009 World Footballer of the Year award

 

22/12 Scotland appoints Craig Levein as new manager

 

20/12 Record breaking Barcelona wins 6th trophy in World Club Cup

 

20/12 Man City sacks manager Mark Huges, appoints Roberto Mancini

 

17/12 USA forward Landon Donovan agrees to join Everton on loan

 

13/12 Monterrey clinches the Mexican Apertura title

 

13/12 Banfield wins first ever Argentine league title

 

10/12 Ronaldinho named as World Player of Decade

 

10/12 Colo Colo wins record 29th Chilean championship

 

08/12 Portsmouth defender Linvoy Primus retires from professional football

 

07/12 Flamengo clinches the Brazilian League Championship

 

07/12 Struggling Stuttgart sacks rookie coach Marcus Babbel

 

04/12 Allen Iverson reverses retirement plan to play for 76ers again

 

03/12 Roberto Carlos agrees to go back to Brazil for Corinthians

 

26/11 NBA guard Allen Iverson retires from professional basketball

 

17/11 Memphis Grizzlies waives unhappy star Allen Iverson

 

12/11 New Orleans Hornets fires coach Bryon Scott after dismal start

 

10/11 German international goalkeeper Robert Enke committed suicide

 

10/11 West Ham striker Dean Ashton forced to retire from professional football

 

30/10 Wigan sacks disgraced striker Marlon King

 

29/10 Swedish legend Henrick Larsson retires from professional football

 

21/10 Middlesbrough sacks manager Gareth Southgate

 

16/10 David Beckham is set to rejoin AC Milan on loan in Jan 2010

 

16/10 Sunderland signs former Dutch winger Boudewijn Zenden on a free

 

30/09 Former Leeds United striker Michael Bridges moves to A-League

 

23/09 Sol Campbell dumps Notts County after only one game

 

20/09 Spain wins their first ever European Basketball Championship

 

17/09 Luca Neil leaves West Ham to join Everton for free

 

17/09 Former Man City forward Darren Huckerby retires from soccer

 

10/09 Allen Iverson continues NBA career in Memphis Grizzlies

 

06/09 Middlesbrough's flop Afonso Alves leaves to play in Qatar

 

04/09 San Antonio Spurs' defender Bruce Bowen retires from basketball

 

04/09 Former Man Utd great Dwight Yorke retires from football

 

02/09 Hull City snaps up Dutch striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink for free

 

01/09 Aston Villa reinforces defense with West Ham's James Collins

 

01/09 Portsmouth swoops Tal Ben-Haim from Man City for free

 

01/09 Ajax loans Brazilian youngster Kerlon from Inter

 

01/09 John Heitinga joins Everton from Atletico Madrid for 6.2m

 

01/09 Tottenham signs Nico Kranjcar at a bargain price from Portsmouth

 

31/08 Zdravko Kuzmanovic joins Stuttgart from Fiorentina for 7m

 

31/08 Juventus buys Italian left back Fabio Grosso for 2.6m

 

31/08 Ediur Gudjohnsen leaves Barcelona for French club Monaco

 

31/08 Sunderland signs Hull City's defender Michael Turner

 

30/08 Chelsea flop Andriy Shevchenko returns to former club Dynamo Kiev

 

29/08 Barcelona claims second trophy in the UEFA Super Cup

 

28/08 Aston Villa adds another defender in Stephen Warnock for 8m

 

28/08 Pascal Chimbonda joins Blackburn for first team football

 

28/08 Manchester City dumps captain Richard Dunne to Aston Villa

 

28/08 Stoke City swoops Robert Huth and Tuncay Sanli from Middlesbrough

 

28/08 Everton buys Portsmouth's Sylvain Distin as Lescott's replacement

 

28/08 Real Madrid sells Arjen Robben to Bayern Munich for 22m

 

28/08 Celtic's Massimo Donati returns home for Bari

 

27/08 Wesley Sneijder leaves Real Madrid for Inter Milan for 14m

 

27/08 Fiorentina snaps up Italy U21 right back Lorenzo De Silvestri for 4.8m

 

26/08 Notts County scoops veteran defender Sol Campbell

 

25/08 Man City finally lands their hand on Joleon Lescott for 22m

 

25/08 Barcelona buys Ukraine defender Dmytro Chygrynskiy for 26m

 

25/08 Man City snaps up former Arsenal and Barcelona left back Sylvinho

 

24/08 Messi leads Barcelona to first trophy of new season in Spanish Super Cup

 

21/08 WBA captain Jonathan Greening joins Fulham on loan

 

21/08 Real Madrid's young striker Alvaro Negredo joins Sevilla

 

20/08 Liverpool reinforces backline with Greek defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos

 

20/08 Blackburn takes in former Real Madrid great Michel Salgado

 

19/08 Chelsea's reject Claudio Pizzaro rejoins Werder Bremen

 

18/08 Fulham poaches 4m-rated Damien Duff from troubled Newcastle

 

18/08 Chelsea snaps up Serbia U21 midfielder Nemanja Matic

 

17/08 Danish outfit Odense signs former Man Utd goalie Roy Carroll

 

14/08 Cleveland Cavaliers signs young Leon Powe from Boston Celtics

 

13/08 Sunderland signs England U21 Lee Cattermole from Wigan for 6m

 

11/08 Fiorentina buys veteran Christian Zanetti from Juventus for 1.7m

 

10/08 Portsmouth snaps up former Newcastle striker Mark Viduka

 

09/08 Chelsea beats Man Utd in penalty shootout to claim the Community Shield

 

08/08 Ben Wallace returns to Detroit Pistons to play for another year

 

08/08 Lazio upsets Inter to win the Italian Super Cup

 

08/08 Aston Villa poaches Senegal right back Habib Beye from Newcastle

 

07/08 Sunderland splashes record 15m for Tottenham's Darren Bent

 

07/08 Juventus loans young defender Martin Caceres from Barcelona

 

07/08 Tottenham snaps up Sebastian Bassong from Newcastle for 8m

 

06/08 Liverpool's Xabi Alonso realises his Real Madrid dream with a 30m move

 

05/08 Liverpool buys Italian midfielder Alberto Aquilani from Roma for 20m

 

05/08 Real Madrid releases veteran right back Michel Salgado

 

04/08 Aston Villa snaps up 8m-rated youngster from Leeds

 

03/08 Stuttgart signs Russian international Pavel Pogrebnyak

 

03/08 Blackburn midfielder Aaron Mokoena moves to Portsmouth

 

02/08 Portsmouth signs former Liverpool right back Steven Finnan

 

01/08 Lazio snaps up Julio Cruz on a free transfer from Inter

 

01/08 Former Italian defender Christian Panucci leaves Roma for Parma

 

01/08 9m-rated Obafemi Martins leaves Newcastle for Wolfsburg

 

31/07 England great Sir Bobby Robson passed away at 76

 

31/07 Parma loans Man City's young striker Valeri Bojinov

 

31/07 Alexandra Hleb snubs Inter to go on loan at Stuttgart instead

 

31/07 Marseille signs Argentine defender Gabriel Heinze from Real Madrid

 

31/07 Man City's Elano moves to Galatasaray for 8m pounds

 

30/07 Real Madrid signs full back Alvaro Arbeloa from Liverpool

 

30/07 Lyon continues spree by signing striker Bafetimbi Gomis for 12.8m

 

30/07 Man City reinforces squad with capture of 16m-Kolo Toure from Arsenal

 

28/07 Barcelona trades Samuel Eto'o and 43m for Inter's Zlatan Ibrahimovic

 

27/07 Tottenham signs Portsmouth's Peter Crouch for 9m pounds

 

26/07 Mexico thumps USA 5-0 to lift the Gold Cup

 

26/07 Marseille snaps up former Spanish striker Fernando Morientes

 

25/07 Villarreal breaks club record in signing Brazilian striker Nilmar

 

25/07 Former Spanish striker Diego Tristan moves to Cadiz

 

25/07 Bolton adds two new defenders to reinforce squad

 

23/07 Barcelona buys Brazilian sensation Keirrison for 13.7m

 

22/07 Notts County surprises all by appointing Sven Goran Eriksson as manager

 

22/07 Turkish club Ankaragucu snaps up Darius Vassell for free

 

18/07 Man City buys third new striker in 25m-rated Emmanuel Adebayor

 

18/07 Lyon continues spree by signing left back Aly Cissokho for 12.9m

 

18/07 Birmingham snaps up former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson

 

18/07 Hamburger signs Swedish U21 Marcus Berg for 9m pounds

 

17/07 12m-rated Stewart Downing leaves Boro for Aston Villa

 

17/07 Inter Milan signs Lucio from Bayern Munich

 

17/07 Lyon splashes 15.5m on left winger Michel Bastos

 

16/07 Bobby Zamora of Fulham joins Hull for 5m pounds

 

16/07 Barcelona makes first buy in Inter's left back Maxwell

 

15/07 25m-rated Carlos Tevez swtiches City in Manchester

 

13/07 Sunderland strengthens squad with Paraguay captain Paulo da Silva

 

13/07 Marseille buys Rennes' Stephane Mbia for 10.4m

 

11/07 Sunderland signs England U21 striker Fraizer Campbell for 6m

 

11/07 Everton loans Jo from Man City again

 

10/07 Rasheed Wallace leaves the Pistons for the Celtics

 

10/07 Zaragoza signs Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant on a free

 

09/07 Juventus buys Felipe Melo in cash-plus-player dea with Fiorentinal

 

09/07 Bordeaux signs Czech midfielder Jaroslav Plasil from Osasuna

 

09/07 Dallas Mavericks reinforces team with forward Shawn Marion

 

08/07 Sevilla swoops midfielder Didier Zokora from Tottenham

 

07/07 Lyon splashes 20.7m on Argentine striker Lisandro Lopez

 

07/07 AC Milan signs US international defender Oguchi Onyewu

 

06/07 Inter Milan snaps up Brazilian starlet Kerlon

 

06/07 Chelsea spends 18m pounds on Russian international Yuri Zhirkov

 

04/07 Hedo Turkoglu leaves Orlando Magic for Toronto Raptors

 

04/07 Man Utd snaps up free agent Michael Owen in pay-as-you-play deal

 

04/07 LA Lakers swaps Ron Artest with Trevor Ariza from Houston Rockets

 

04/07 Hamburger snaps up veteran midfielder Ze Roberto for free

 

03/07 Inter trades midfielder Thiago Motta from Genoa

 

02/07 Real Madrid continues spree in signing 30m Karim Benzema from Lyon

 

02/07 Detroit Pistons signs Ben Gordon from the Chicago Bulls

 

02/07 Roma striker Vincenzo Montella retires from professional football

 

01/07 Man Utd buys Wigan's Antonio Valencia for 16m pounds

 

01/07 Marseille signs Lucho Gonzalez from Porto for 15m pounds

 

01/07 Bolton snaps up midfielder Sean Davis from Portsmouth for free

 

 

30/06 Inter Milan signs Argentine striker Diego Milito from Genoa

 

29/06 Brazil beats the United States to lift the Confederations Cup

 

27/06 Real Madrid breaks world record again for 80m pounds' Cristiano Ronaldo

 

27/06 Benfica signs Javier Saviola from Real Madrid for 4.25m pounds

 

26/06 Orlando Magic trades for Vince Carter from New Jersey Nets

 

26/06 Cleveland Cavaliers acquires Big Shaq from Phoenix Suns

 

26/06 Real Madrid finally signs a defender in Raul Albiol from Valencia

 

25/06 Marseille's Djibril Cisse moves to Greek outfit Panathinaikos

 

25/06 Chelsea snaps up Daniel Sturridge from Man City for a tribunal

 

23/06 Liverpool signs Glen Johnson from Portsmouth for 17m pounds

 

22/06 Espanyol signs Japan star Shunsuke Nakamura on a free

 

21/06 Man City signs Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz for 18m pounds

 

19/06 Bordeaux buys Yoann Gourcuff from AC Milan for 12.7m pounds

 

19/06 Arsenal signs Belgian utility man Thomas Vermaelen from Ajax

 

17/06 Lyon's freekick master Juninho Pernambucano leaves for Qatar

 

15/06 LA Lakers wins the NBA title 2009; Kobe Bryant wins Finals MVP

 

09/06 Ambitious FC Bunyodkor appoints Scolari as new manager

 

09/06 Kaka joins Real Madrid for world record fee of 59m pounds

 

09/06 Philadelphia 76ers signs three-point master Jason Kapano

 

04/06 Former Brazilian star Denilson joins Vietnamese club

 

03/06 Birmingham breaks transfer record in signing 9m-pound Christian Benitez

 

02/06 Aston Villa's Gareth Barry makes a shock move to Man City

 

02/06 Real Madrid appoints Zinedine Zidane as President's top advisor

 

02/06 Italy striker Fabio Quagliarella signs for Napoli from Udinese

 

02/06 Real Madrid appoints Manuel Pellegrini as new manager

 

02/06 Chelsea appoints Carlo Ancelotti as new manager

 

01/06 AC Milan terminates Carlo Ancelotti's contract; appoints Leonardo

 

01/06 Paolo Maldini retires from professional football

 

01/06 Luis Figo retires from professional football

 

01/06 Pavel Nedved leaves Juventus, ponders retirement

 

31/05 Girondins Bordeaux wins the French Ligue title

 

29/05 Former Croatian captain Niko Kovac retires from soccer

 

29/05 Genoa signs Hernan Crespo from Inter Milan

 

28/05 Barcelona wins the Champions League and completes treble

 

26/05 Mario Gomez signs for Bayern Munich for 26.3m pounds

 

25/05 Diego signs for Juventus for 21.5m pounds

 

24/05 Wolfsburg and Rangers win titles in their leagues

 

21/05 Shakhtar Donetsk wins the last UEFA Cup

 

20/05 Fabio Cannavaro set to return to Juventus in the summer

 

17/05 Man Utd, Inter and Barcelona wins titles in their leagues

 

15/05 Villa's Danish defender Martin Laursen retires from professional soccer

 

14/05 Bayern Munich appoints Louis van Gaal as new manager

 

07/05 Free agent Adriano signs for ex-club Flamengo

 

05/05 Liverpool defender Hyypia set to join Leverkusen at end of season

 

23/04 42-year-old Mutombo retires from NBA after serious knee injury

 

19/04 AZ Alkmaar wins the Dutch Eredivisie since 1981

 

01/04 Newcastle appoints Alan Shearer as the caretaker manager

 

01/04 Sacramento Kings retires Vlade Divac's no 21 jersey

 

 

27/02 Boston Celtics gambles on Ex-Knicks' star Stephon Marbury

 

13/02 Raptors exchanges Jermaine O'Neal for Heat's Shawn Marion

 

10/02 Chelsea sacks manager Luiz Feilipe Scolari and appoints Guus Hiddink

 

03/02 Ex-Liverpool God Robbie Fowler joins Australian A-League

 

03/02 Arsenal finally gets Andrei Arshavin for 16.5 million pounds

 

01/02 Inter loans Portuguese winger Quaresma to Chelsea

 

01/02 Robbie Keane returns to Tottenham after only 6 months at Liverpool

 

01/02 Newcastle's faithful goalkeeper Shay Given finally leaves for Man City

 

01/02 N'Zogbia gets his wish to leave Newcastle and joins Wigan

30/01 Bolton captain Kevin Nolan joins Newcastle for 4m pounds

 

26/01 Tottenham signs Chelsea's backup keeper Cudicini

 

26/01 Pascal Chimbonda goes back to Tottenham for 3m pounds

 

23/01 Hull City signs Jimmy Bullard from Fulham for 5m pounds

 

23/01 Villa signs Heskey from Wigan; Wigan loans Boro's Mido for replacement

 

21/01 Tottenham signs Palacios from Wigan for 14m pounds

 

21/01 Man City continues spree by signing Nigel de Jong from Hamburg

 

19/01 Bellamy joins Man City for 14m pounds

 

19/01 Podolski decides to go back to former club Cologne in July 2009

 

19/01 France right back Willy Sagnol retires from professional soccer

 

06/01 Jermaine Defoe returns to Tottenham for 15m pounds

 

03/01 Wayne Bridge joins cash rich Man City for 10m pounds