Football Transfer News September 12: Tiri Signs With ATK MB; Arteta Sets Sight on Housem Aouar

Football Transfer News September 12: Kerala Blasters have reportedly secured the signing of A-League forward Gary Hooper from Wellington Phoenix, The Bridge reports. Earlier, Odisha FC announced the signing of defender Jacob Tratt on a one-year deal. Meanwhile, Jose Luis Espinosa, or Tiri, returns to Kolkata to join ATK Mohun Bagan. The Daily Star, reports that Manchester United won’t be held to ransom over their pursuit of Jadon Sancho and will focus on other targets if Dortmund does not lower their valuation of 108 million pounds. The Mirror reports that Gareth Bale trained away from his Real Madrid teammates on Friday. ESPN says, Houssem Aouar has become Arsenal’s primary transfer target for the remainder of the window.

Follow the News18 Sports live blog for all the transfer news and gossip from both Indian football and European transfer market. The Indian football transfer window is open till October 20, 2020 while the European transfer window is open for 10 weeks – from July 27 to October 5. This year has been an exception for the football transfer window as well due to coronavirus pandemic with the dates extended and altered according to season end. This year, the Indian football transfer market has seen a lot of buzz as well with clubs trying to make smart buys in limited budgets.

In the Indian football transfer window, ATK Mohun Bagan, FC Goa and Odisha FC have been the most active ones while Jamshedpur FC, Chennaiyin FC and Hyderabad FC have had coach changes lately as well. While FC Goa appointed Juan Ferrando as their coach early on and hit the market, Chennaiyin and Hyderabad FC have only just found their coaches. Hyderabad, who had Albert Roca as their coach, had to be changed after the Spaniard got an offer from FC Barcelona and moved on. In the European football market, Chelsea have been on a spending spree buying extremely talented youngsters to make up a formidable squad.

In Europe, the biggest of the latest transfer deals have been the signing of Kai Havertz by Chelsea from Bayer Leverkusen for 71m pounds and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United getting the signature of Donny van de Beek from Ajax Amsterdam. Among the women, Pernille Harder became the most expensive female footballer in the world when she signed with Chelsea.