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After seeing three different mega deals turned down, Chelsea finally landed Romelu Lukaku, its primary transfer target, late into the summer transfer window in a £97.5m deal. The player’s wages at Stamford Bridge are within the region of £325,000 per week and could rise to £450,000 with bonuses. However, the European champions had no problems splashing the cash for the Belgian international. It really was a case of the problem identified; problem-fix identified, problem-fix targeted; problem-fix secured.

Cristiano Ronaldo is making his Manchester United debut these days after sealing an emotional return to the club late in the summer transfer window of 2021. Ronaldo’s Manchester United signing was the final act in a spectacular turn of events that took everyone in the football world by surprise and almost saw the Portuguese megastar break scores of Red Devil hearts. Ultimately, to the relief of the Red half of Manchester, the 5-time Ballon D’Or winner opted to head back to where his glittering European career first took off 18 years ago.

Summer is always a fascinating time for European football fans, where the top leagues and teams bid for the top talent. But more than ever, this year’s summer transfer window blew a hole in fans’ minds and teams’ budgets. An avalanche of deals saw undisputed football gods like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo move to different leagues altogether. Antoine Griezmann returned to Atletico after a lot of noise and speculation. And in the UK, Romelu Lukaku and Jack Grealish were amongst seven transfer deals totaling nearly £1 billion.

Euro 2020 was a devastating blow for English football fans, whose dreams of football coming home were crushed. The England team lost to Italy on penalties, and later, players were subject to horrific racial abuse. It’s been a rough few days for English football. Luckily, the beautiful game has a unifying nature. League football is finally back on the horizon, and fans across the country have united as they count down the days left until the Premier League has captured our complete attention.

All you need to know about the recently concluded European Championships. After a breathtaking month of football, the whistle has finally blown on the Euro 2020 championships. In the last few days, football fans have tried to adapt to life after the Euros, but it hasn’t proved to be the easiest of tasks. This was a competition that delivered remarkable moments from the first minute down to the last.

Copa America is always one of the most hotly anticipated dates in South American football, and it is a fantastic competition to check out if you want to see some of the best football in the world at play. There is the largest football competition in South America, and features some of the best players in the world playing for their national teams. 

So where is football going? Home? Rome? Nobody knows for sure. The one certain thing is that it can only go either way.

The hugely exciting 2020 European Championship inches ever closer to the finish line. The semi-finals are here, and they bring with them a slightly underwhelming note as fans around the world start to contemplate inevitable thoughts of the moment they’ll have to wave goodbye to what’s undoubtedly been the most thrilling summer of football we’ve had in a while.

Drama, thrill, entertainment, wonder goals, last-ditch goal-mouth tackles, dying minute equalizers, stoppage time winners – the Euro 2020 round of 16 was international football at its finest. Any fears that matches would turn out as cagey affairs were dispelled after Denmark’s resounding four-to-nil victory over Wales, a match that set the tone for the superbly entertaining attack-first (in some cases attack-only) nature of the rest of the last-16 fixtures.