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Financial strife fails to dim smiles at high-flying Rayo Vallecano

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Hertha Berlin and the Skibbe saga – a depressing tale

Perhaps, in a few decades time, some German writer will transform Michael Skibbe's excruciatingly br...

Transfers

Graeme Le Saux (defender) Blackburn Rovers to Chelsea (pounds 5m); Paolo Di Canio (forward) Celtic to Sheffield Wednesday (pounds 3m); Jose Dominguez (forward) Sporting Lisbon to Tottenham (pounds 1.6m); Regi Blinker (forward) Sheffield Wednesday to Celtic (pounds 1.5m); Graham Fenton (forward) Blackburn to Leicester (pounds 1.1m); Deon Burton (forward) Portsmouth to Derby (pounds 1m); Carl Asaba (forward) Brentford to Reading (pounds 800,000); Orlando Trustfull (midfielder) Sheffield Wednesday to Vitesse Arnhem (Neth) pounds 800,000; Darren Barnard (defender) Bristol City to Barnsley (pounds 750,000); Stig Johansen (forward) Bodo-Glimt (Nor) to Southampton (pounds 600,000); Jon Ivar Hjelde (forward) Rosenborg Trondheim (Nor) to Nottingham Forest (pounds 600,000); Steve Torpey (forward) Swansea City to Bristol City (pounds 400,000); Ricky Gillies (midfielder) St Mirren to Aberdeen (pounds 350,000); John Aloisi (forward) Cremonese (It) to Portsmouth (pounds 300,000); Sean Flynn (midfielder) Derby to West Bromwich (pounds 260,000); Lee Howey (defender) Sunderland to Burnley (pounds 200,000); Mixu Paatelainen (forward) Bolton to Wolves (pounds 200,000); Kevin Cooper (midfielder) Derby to Stockport (pounds 150,000); Ken Charlery (forward) Stockport to Barnet (pounds 80,000); Tony Bird (forward) and Dave O'Gorman (forward) Barry Town to Swansea (pounds 60,000 joint fee); Vasilis Kalogeracos (forward) Perth Glory (Aus) to Stoke (pounds 60,000); Peter Swan (defender) Burnley to Bury (pounds 50,000); Danny Wilson (forward) Ashton Utd to Plymouth (pounds 40,000); Gijsbert Bos (forward) Lincoln to Rotherham (pounds 20,000); Steve Whitehall (forward) Rochdale to Mansfield (pounds 20,000); Ian Gray (goalkeeper) Rochdale to Stockport (tribunal fee); Martin Butler (forward) Walsall to Cambridge Utd (undisclosed fee); Stephen Tweed (defender) Ionikos (Gr) to Stoke (free); Roger Boli (forward) Le Havre (Fr) to Walsall (free); Earl Jean (forward) Rotherham to Plymouth (free); Dariusz Kubicki (defender) Sunderland to Wolves (free); Roger Joseph (defender) West Bromwich to Leyton Orient (free); Chris Beech (midfielder) Manchester City to Cardiff (free).

Loans/trials

Mikhail Kavelashvili (forward) Manchester City to Grasshopper Zurich (one-year loan plus pounds 40,000); Paul Crichton (goalkeeper) West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa; David Regis (forward) Barnsley to Scunthorpe; Kelvin Davis (goalkeeper) Luton to Hartlepool; Kim Grant (forward) Luton to Millwall; Neil Moss (goalkeeper) Southampton to Gillingham; David Seal (forward) Bristol City to Northampton; Michael Watt (goalkeeper) Aberdeen to Blackburn; Marek Lemsalu (defender) FSV Mainz (Ger) to Liverpool (trial); David Rainey (winger) Ballyclare Comrades (N Irl) to Port Vale (trial).

Managerial changes

Brentford: Out: David Webb (appointed chief executive)

Arbroath: In: David Baikie

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