Arsenal and Liverpool also offloaded unwanted players on Wednesday. “And if he does get slaughtered by the Italians he won’t be able to understand it, will he?”
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Hart, 29, had been at City since joining as a youngster back in 2006, but looks more than likely to have played his final game for the club.
Of the 20 top-flight clubs, 13 broke their transfer records.
Minutes later the Premier League giants also confirmed the departure of Bony, having agreed a loan deal with Stoke.
Mangala has travelled to Valencia to agree a deal with the La Liga club. British media have reported Alonso will cost Chelsea 23 million pounds ($30.2 million).
“To have succeeded in signing him gives us all great satisfaction and attests for our ambitions of wanting to build an even better, more competitive squad”. “I always had a wonderful relationship with the fans and I am looking forward to wearing the blue shirt at Stamford Bridge once again”.
Joe Hart reflected on a hard few weeks in the “crazy game” of football after completing a loan move to Torino from Manchester City.
Argentine Willy Caballero has been rated highly by City’s new coach Pep Guardiola.
Bony cost City £25m ($32m) in 2015, when he joined on a four-and-a-half-year contract.
While Joe Hart cost City an eventual £1.5m following his arrival as a teenager from Shrewsbury Town 10 years ago, the club have allowed a goalkeeper worth at least £20m in today’s market to leave in order to complete an unexpected loan move to Torino, Serie A’s perennial under-achievers.
The goalkeeper reportedly turned down a move to stay in the Premier League by spending a season at Sunderland.
Bony has also found himself out of favour and is hoping the move to Stoke can revive a career that has stalled since his £28million move to City from Swansea in January previous year.
Due to a combination of worldwide call-ups, injuries, illness and poor form, the Ivory Coast forward never really got going at Eastlands.
Tottenham has signed goalkeeper Pau Lopez on loan from Spanish club Espanyol.
Newcastle United midfielder Moussa Sissoko has been granted permission by the French Football Federation to leave national team duty and complete a move away from St James’ Park. Goalkeeper Pau Lopez arrived on loan from Espanyol.
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Leicester City, England’s fairytale champions last season, were reported to be closing in on deals for Sporting Lisbon pair Islam Slimani and Adrien Silva. Middlesbrough signed Adama Traore from Aston Villa, while fellow winger Albert Adomah went in the opposite direction to the second-tier club.
