{"id":479905,"date":"2011-09-01T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T05:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/09\/01\/meireles-and-arteta-in-late-moves\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T05:50:53","slug":"meireles-and-arteta-in-late-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/09\/01\/meireles-and-arteta-in-late-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Meireles and Arteta in late moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/55065000\/jpg\/_55065278_55063930.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"Raul Meireles has joined Chelsea from Liverpool\" \/> Meireles left Liverpool in one of the deadline&#8217;s dramatic and surprising moves<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Raul Meireles and Mikel Arteta swapped the city of Liverpool for London in dramatic deals on a busy transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n<p>Meireles moved from Liverpool to Chelsea, while Everton&#8217;s Arteta joined Arsenal along with Chelsea midfielder Yossi Benayoun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal<\/strong> also signed Germany defender Per Mertesacker and left-back Andre Santos from Fenerbahce for \u00a36.2m as Arsene Wenger reshaped his squad after <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/14606020.stm\">Sunday&#8217;s 8-2 defeat by Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester City<\/strong> completed the free transfer of ex-Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves and allowed out-of-favour forward Craig Bellamy to rejoin former club Liverpool.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>2010: Asamoah Gyan [Rennes &#8211; Sunderland] \u00a313m<\/li>\n<li>2009: Richard Dunne [Manchester City &#8211; Aston Villa] \u00a36m<\/li>\n<li>2008: Robinho [Real Madrid &#8211; Manchester City] \u00a332.5m<\/li>\n<li>2007: Glen Johnson [Chelsea &#8211; Portsmouth] \u00a34m<\/li>\n<li>2006: Ashley Cole [Arsenal &#8211; Chelsea] \u00a35m p\/e<\/li>\n<li>2005: Michael Owen [Real Madrid &#8211; Newcastle] \u00a317m<\/li>\n<li>2004: Wayne Rooney [Everton &#8211; Manchester United] \u00a327m<\/li>\n<li>2003: Claude Makelele [Real Madrid &#8211; Chelsea] \u00a316.6m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liverpool let two players depart for France, Joe Cole moving to Lille on a season-long loan and midfielder Christian Poulsen joining Evian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester United<\/strong> did not make any deadline-day deals, with Inter Milan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\/sneijder101010\">Wesley Sneijder revealing on Twitter<\/a> that he would be staying in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham and Stoke made major striker signings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fulham<\/strong> bought FC Twente attacker Bryan Ruiz for \u00a310.6m, beating off a late rival bid from Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stoke<\/strong> broke their transfer record to sign Tottenham&#8217;s Peter Crouch for \u00a310m, and added Wilson Palacios from Spurs for a fee believed to be around \u00a36m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spurs<\/strong> also let Jermaine Jenas and Alan Hutton move to <strong>Aston Villa<\/strong>, the latter opting for the West Midlands over a move to Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham winger David Bentley joined <strong>West Ham<\/strong> on a season-long loan.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs completed a deal for West Ham United&#8217;s Scott Parker, but failed to sign Bolton defender Gary Cahill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunderland<\/strong> ended their search for a striker when Nicklas Bendtner moved from Arsenal on a year-long loan deal.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal also let young striker Joel Campbell, who only signed last week, join French side Lorient on loan, following team-mate Gilles Sunu, who made a permanent switch to the Ligue 1 outfit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QPR<\/strong> added Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips and Sunderland&#8217;s Anton Ferdinand to their squad. Their move for Spurs defender Sebastien Bassong fell through due to Spurs&#8217; failure to sign Bolton&#8217;s Gary Cahill.<\/p>\n<p>As well as keeping hold of their prized defensive asset Cahill, <strong>Bolton<\/strong> added new faces by sealing a permanent deal for Liverpool striker David Ngog and a loan switch for Chelsea midfielder Gael Kakuta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackburn<\/strong> raided Goodison Park to sign striker Yakubu, and also completed moves for Birmingham defender Scott Dann and Sheffield United frontman Jordan Slew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everton<\/strong> made two loan signings: Real Madrid&#8217;s Royston Drenthe on loan and striker Denis Stracqualursi from Argentine side Tigres. 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