Aston Villa signs Lille midfielder as Liverpool loses another "target"

                             Lille midfielder Idrissa Gueye is all set to join Aston Villa in a deal worth £9m. The Birmingham basedclub is looking to improve from last season where they were absolutely disappointing in their performance. The Senegal international, 25, is the third signing of manager Tim Sherwood after defender Micah Richards and forward Scott Sinclair. Gueye has made 134 appearances for the Ligue 1 club and has been capped 18 times for his country.

                                  AC Milan has signed Colombia international striker Carlos Bacca. Initially Liverpool was leading the race to sign Carlos Bacca but AC Milan were prepared to pay Bacca's £21million buy-out clause. As a result Liverpool loses another transfer target.Bacca, 28, joined Sevilla from Club Brugge in 2013 and has scored 34 goals in 71 appearances for the Andalusian outfit.  

Stoke City breaks club record and Atletico Madrid signs Porto "Goalscoring Machine".

                         Stoke City have signed Switzerland international midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, from Inter Milan for a club record fee of about £12m. The 23 year old only joined Inter last January from Bayern Munich. He scored 3 goals in 20 appearances for Inter. However he is a more prolific goalscorer for his country as he netted 17 times in 46 games for Switzerland. It is a huge success for Stoke manager Mark Hughes to be able to sign such a talented creative midfielder, as he has been trying to change the style of football Stoke plays for the last few years.

  

                      Porto's Colombia striker Jackson Martinez, have signed for Atletico Madrid in a £24.8m deal. The Colombia striker was a target of Arsenal, but Atletico agreed to match the release clause. Martinez has been a regular goalscorer for Porto, as he netted 67 goals in 90 games and finishing as the Primeira Liga's top scorer in each of his three seasons.

Martinez joined Porto from Chiapas from the Liga MX for$11m. 

Liverpool signs Clyne and Bayern gets Costa.

                      England right-back Nathaniel Clyne have signed for Liverpool for £12.5m. The former Southampton man signed a five year deal. An earlier bid of £12.5m by Liverpool was rejected by Southampton. There was lot of speculation going on that Clyne is being targeted by Manchester United from last season but with Ashley Young emergence as a wing-back last season, the Red Devils did not show any interest in Clyne this summer. Liverpool endured a disappointing 2014-15 campaign, as they finished sixth and missed out on Champions League qualification, having been runners-up the previous season.

                        Douglas Costa has joined Bayern Munich from from Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee of £21m. The 24 year old has signed a five year deal with the Bundesliga champions.Costa scored 29 goals in 149 league games for Shakhtar, where he won the title five times. The signing of the Brazilian midfielder has increased the possibility of  Bastian Schwensteiger leaving for Manchester United.The Germany international only played 20 league games in 2014-15. his lowest ever for the club in a single season.

Goalkeeping legend joins Arsenal

                     A transfer saga which seems to be going on for ages at last came to an end when Chelsea legend Petr Cech joined Premier League rival Arsenal. Speculation about the transfer had been going on for a long time as Cech lost his place in the starting eleven of Chelsea, to Thibaut Courtois last season, and with Arsenal looking for a World class goalkeeper, having failed to replace their own goalkeeping legend David Seaman. 

                       While at Chelsea Petr Cech won 13 trophies including one Champions League and four Premier League titles. He played more than 400 club games in 11 seasons at Stamford Bridge.He also set a club goalkeeping record of 228 clean sheets in all competitions. Arsenal paid almost £10m. for Cech, who has signed a four-year contract.

Ted 2 dissapoints as Jurassic World breaks another record

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                   This week the box office fight was between three movies, "Ted 2" , which was a new release and two hold overs, "Inside Out" and "Jurassic World". While most predictions showed all the movies to earn more than $50 million dollar, Ted 2 fell short by quite a large margin. The sequel to the surprisingly leggy original Ted, Ted 2 earned “just” $33 million in its debut weekend. That includes $2.6m worth of Thursday previews, same as the original Ted, and a $13.2m opening day (compared to Ted‘s $20m Friday). The original Ted opened to a whopping $54.4 million weekend off a $20.5m opening day. It was the biggest R-rated opening for an original “not based on anything” film.

                    In holdover news, Jurassic World went pass the $500 million mark this Sunday. It become the fastest movie to do so. It took just 17 days while the previous record holder "The Avengers" took 23 days. Its third weekend was the third biggest of all time behind The Avengers ($55.6m) and Avatar ($68m). It has earned $1.238 billion worldwide in around 19 days of global release becoming the eighth-biggest grossing movie of all time worldwide.
                    Inside Out also earned $52.13 million in its second weekend.Its 42% drop is less than  Wall-E   and Brave and more than Finding Nemo and Up. Till Sunday it has earned $184.95 million in ten days, which is more than any Pixar movie had earned in that time frame except Toy Story 3.