List of English football transfers summer 2006

This is a list of English football transfers for the 2006–07 season. Only moves from the Premiership and Championship, as well as any other prominent moves from the lower leagues are listed.

Michael Ballack's arrival at Chelsea was one of the most high-profile transfers of the summer.

The summer transfer window ran from the end of the 2005–06 season, with a few transfers taking place prior to the season's complete end, the first prominent move went through on 2 May. The window closed on 31 August. The mid-season transfer window opened on 1 January 2007, and ran for the entire month, until 31 January. Players without a club may join one, either during or in between transfer windows. Clubs below Premiership level may also sign players on loan at any time. If need be, clubs may sign a goalkeeper on an emergency loan, if all others are unavailable.

Chelsea broke the record for the highest transfer fee paid by an English club, as well as their own transfer record when they paid £30 million for Andriy Shevchenko, slightly eclipsing the £29.1 million Manchester United paid for Rio Ferdinand in 2002.[1] It also became the sixth highest costing transfer of all time.[1] Dietmar Hamann's transfer to Bolton Wanderers became the shortest in English footballing history, with him only being at the club for one day, before having a "change of heart" and joining Manchester City the following day.[2] In total, Premiership clubs spent the highest amount on transfers in the summer since the transfer window system was introduced.[3]

Summer transfer window edit

  • Clubs are English unless noted
Date Name Nat Moving from Moving to Fee
2 May 2006 Grzegorz Rasiak   Tottenham Hotspur Southampton £2m
6 May 2006 DJ Campbell   Brentford Birmingham City £2m
8 May 2006 Jimmy Bullard   Wigan Athletic Fulham £2.5m
15 May 2006 Michael Ballack     Bayern Munich Chelsea Free
23 May 2006 Tomáš Rosický     Borussia Dortmund Arsenal £6.8m
24 May 2006 David Sommeil   Manchester City Sheffield United Free
25 May 2006 Robert Pires   Arsenal   Villarreal Free
26 May 2006 Paul Dickov   Blackburn Rovers Manchester City Free
30 May 2006 Andrew Johnson   Crystal Palace Everton £8.6m
30 May 2006 Salomon Kalou     Feyenoord Chelsea Undisclosed
31 May 2006 Andriy Shevchenko     A.C. Milan Chelsea £30m[1][4]
31 May 2006 Cameron Jerome     Cardiff City Birmingham City £3m
1 June 2006 Henrique Hilário     Nacional Madeira Chelsea Free
1 June 2006 Andy Gray   Sunderland Burnley £750k
2 June 2006 Mikel John Obi   Manchester United Chelsea £16m[5]
6 June 2006 Juan Sebastián Verón   Chelsea   Estudiantes Two-season long loan
8 June 2006 Lee Bowyer   Newcastle United West Ham United £3.5m
14 June 2006 Michael Chopra   Newcastle United   Cardiff City £500k
14 June 2006 Joleon Lescott   Wolverhampton Wanderers Everton £5m
14 June 2006 Claude Davis   Preston North End Sheffield United £3.5m
14 June 2006 Eiður Guðjohnsen   Chelsea   Barcelona £8m[4]
15 June 2006 Jonathan Spector   Manchester United West Ham United £500k
19 June 2006 Jiri Jarosik   Chelsea   Celtic Undisclosed
21 June 2006 Ousmane Dabo     Lazio Manchester City Free
22 June 2006 Craig Bellamy   Blackburn Rovers Liverpool £6m
26 June 2006 Danny Pugh   Leeds United Preston North End £250k
26 June 2006 Jason Brown   Gillingham Blackburn Rovers Free
26 June 2006 Fitz Hall   Crystal Palace Wigan Athletic £3m
26 June 2006 John Hartson     Celtic West Bromwich Albion Undisclosed
26 June 2006 Stephen Kelly   Tottenham Hotspur Birmingham City £750k
26 June 2006 Glen Johnson   Chelsea Portsmouth Season-long loan
26 June 2006 Aki Riihilahti   Crystal Palace   Kaiserslautern Free
29 June 2006 Colin Cameron   Wolverhampton Wanderers Coventry City Free
30 June 2006 Bruno Cheyrou   Liverpool   Rennes Undisclosed
30 June 2006 Leon Cort   Hull City Crystal Palace £1.25m
30 June 2006 Chris Powell   Charlton Athletic Watford Free
30 June 2006 Didier Zokora     Saint-Étienne Tottenham Hotspur £8.2m
1 July 2006 Gabriel Paletta     Banfield Liverpool Undisclosed
1 July 2006 David Bellion   Manchester United   Nice Undisclosed
1 July 2006 Kenny Miller   Wolverhampton Wanderers   Celtic Free
1 July 2006 Tim Howard   Manchester United Everton Season-long loan
1 July 2006 Dimitar Berbatov     Bayer Leverkusen Tottenham Hotspur £10.9m[6]
3 July 2006 Francis Jeffers   Charlton Athletic Blackburn Rovers Free
3 July 2006 Jason Roberts   Wigan Athletic Blackburn Rovers Undisclosed
4 July 2006 Chris Perry   Charlton Athletic West Bromwich Albion Free
4 July 2006 Mikele Leigertwood   Crystal Palace Sheffield United £600k
5 July 2006 Shaka Hislop   West Ham United   Major League Soccer
(FC Dallas)[7]
Free
5 July 2006 Bradley Wright-Phillips   Manchester City Southampton Undisclosed
5 July 2006 Stan Lazaridis   Birmingham City   Perth Glory Free
5 July 2006 Fábio Aurélio     Valencia Liverpool Free
5 July 2006 Fernando Morientes   Liverpool   Valencia £3m[4][8]
5 July 2006 Carlton Cole   Chelsea West Ham United Undisclosed
6 July 2006 Tyrone Mears   Preston North End West Ham United £1m
6 July 2006 Bruno Ngotty   Bolton Wanderers Birmingham City Free
6 July 2006 Li Tie   Everton Sheffield United Free
7 July 2006 Emile Heskey   Birmingham City Wigan Athletic £5.5m
11 July 2006 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink   Middlesbrough Charlton Athletic Free
11 July 2006 Chris Kirkland   Liverpool Wigan Athletic Six-month loan
11 July 2006 Seol Ki-Hyeon   Wolverhampton Wanderers Reading £1.5m
11 July 2006 Gabriel Zakuani   Leyton Orient Fulham £1.5m
11 July 2006 Mark Kennedy   Wolverhampton Wanderers Crystal Palace Free
11 July 2006 Paul Smith   Southampton Nottingham Forest £500k
11 July 2006 Dietmar Hamann   Liverpool Bolton Wanderers Free
12 July 2006 Dietmar Hamann   Bolton Wanderers Manchester City Free[9]
12 July 2006 Djibril Cissé   Liverpool   Marseille Season-long loan
12 July 2006 Damien Francis   Wigan Athletic Watford £1.5m
12 July 2006 Björn Runström     Hammarby Fulham Undisclosed
14 July 2006 Sam Sodje   Brentford Reading £350k
14 July 2006 Abdoulaye Méïté     Marseille Bolton Wanderers Undisclosed
14 July 2006 Dean Marney   Tottenham Hotspur Hull City Undisclosed
18 July 2006 Denny Landzaat     AZ Alkmaar Wigan Athletic Undisclosed
18 July 2006 Jay-Jay Okocha   Bolton Wanderers   Qatar Sports Club Free
19 July 2006 Kenny Cunningham   Birmingham City Sunderland Free
19 July 2006 Pedro Pelé     Belenenses Southampton Undisclosed
20 July 2006 Bernardo Corradi     Valencia Manchester City Undisclosed
20 July 2006 Gary Breen   Sunderland Wolverhampton Wanderers Free
20 July 2006 Barry Hayles   Millwall Plymouth Argyle £100k
21 July 2006 Kelvin Davis   Sunderland Southampton £1m
21 July 2006 David Livermore   Millwall Leeds United Undisclosed
22 July 2006 Damien Duff   Chelsea Newcastle United £5m
22 July 2006 Asier del Horno   Chelsea   Valencia £4.8m[4]
24 July 2006 Rob Hulse   Leeds United Sheffield United £2.2m
25 July 2006 James Scowcroft   Coventry City Crystal Palace £500k
26 July 2006 Sander Westerveld   Portsmouth   UD Almería Free
26 July 2006 Julio Arca   Sunderland Middlesbrough £1.75m
26 July 2006 Quinton Fortune   Manchester United Bolton Wanderers Free
26 July 2006 Jermaine Pennant   Birmingham City Liverpool £6.7m
26 July 2006 Kevin Nicholls   Luton Town Leeds United £700k
27 July 2006 Jay Bothroyd   Charlton Athletic Wolverhampton Wanderers Free
27 July 2006 Franck Queudrue   Middlesbrough Fulham Undisclosed
28 July 2006 Benni McCarthy     FC Porto Blackburn Rovers Undisclosed
28 July 2006 David Thompson   Wigan Athletic Portsmouth Free
28 July 2006 Ruud van Nistelrooy   Manchester United   Real Madrid £10.2m[4]
29 July 2006 Carl Fletcher   West Ham United Crystal Palace £400k
29 July 2006 Rudi Skácel     Hearts Southampton £1.6m
31 July 2006 Lee Croft   Manchester City Norwich City £600k
31 July 2006 Michael Carrick   Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United £18.6m
1 August 2006 Emmerson Boyce   Crystal Palace Wigan Athletic £1m
1 August 2006 John Paintsil     Hapoel Tel Aviv West Ham United £1m
1 August 2006 David Livermore   Leeds United Hull City Undisclosed
2 August 2006 Jamie Clapham   Birmingham City Wolverhampton Wanderers Free
2 August 2006 Danny Higginbotham   Southampton Stoke City £225k
2 August 2006 Kevin Campbell   West Bromwich Albion   Cardiff City Free
2 August 2006 Willo Flood   Manchester City   Cardiff City Undisclosed
3 August 2006 Geoff Horsfield   Sheffield United Leeds United Five-month loan
3 August 2006 Mario Melchiot   Birmingham City   Rennes Free
3 August 2006 Antonio Valencia     Villarreal Wigan Athletic Season-long loan
3 August 2006 Jonatan Johansson   Charlton Athletic   Malmö FF Free
4 August 2006 Antonio Barragán   Liverpool   Deportivo La Coruña £680k
4 August 2006 Jhon Viáfara   Portsmouth Southampton Undisclosed
4 August 2006 Radhi Jaïdi   Bolton Wanderers Birmingham City £2m
4 August 2006 Ryan Smith   Arsenal Derby County Undisclosed
4 August 2006 Matthew Oakley   Southampton Derby County Free
4 August 2006 Sebastian Larsson   Arsenal Birmingham City Six-month loan
4 August 2006 Mario Lička     FC Slovácko Southampton Free
4 August 2006 Gerard Piqué   Manchester United   Real Zaragoza Season-long loan
6 August 2006 Danny Shittu   Queens Park Rangers Watford £1.6m
7 August 2006 Hernán Crespo   Chelsea   Inter Milan Two season-long loan[10]
8 August 2006 George McCartney   Sunderland West Ham United £600k
8 August 2006 Clive Clarke   West Ham United Sunderland Swap[11]
8 August 2006 Zesh Rehman   Fulham Queens Park Rangers Undisclosed
8 August 2006 Sol Campbell   Arsenal Portsmouth Free
8 August 2006 Amady Faye   Newcastle United Charlton Athletic £2m
8 August 2006 Djimi Traoré   Liverpool Charlton Athletic £2m
8 August 2006 Simon Charlton   Norwich City Oldham Athletic Free
9 August 2006 Tamás Priskin     Győri ETO Watford £1m
9 August 2006 Dexter Blackstock   Southampton Queens Park Rangers Undisclosed
10 August 2006 Tomasz Kuszczak   West Bromwich Albion Manchester United Season-long loan[12]
10 August 2006 Paul McShane   Manchester United West Bromwich Albion Swap[13]
10 August 2006 Luke Steele   Manchester United West Bromwich Albion Swap[13]
10 August 2006 Ben Foster   Manchester United Watford Season-long loan
10 August 2006 Hatem Trabelsi     Ajax Manchester City Free
11 August 2006 David James   Manchester City Portsmouth £1.2m[4]
11 August 2006 Hayden Foxe   Unattached Leeds United[14] Free
14 August 2006 Scott Carson   Liverpool Charlton Athletic Season-long loan
15 August 2006 Andreas Isaksson     Rennes Manchester City £2m
16 August 2006 Mo Camara     Celtic Derby County Free
16 August 2006 Robert Green   Norwich City West Ham United £2m
16 August 2006 Gary McSheffrey   Coventry City Birmingham City £4m
16 August 2006 Andy Reid   Tottenham Hotspur Charlton Athletic £3m
16 August 2006 Phil Bardsley   Manchester United   Rangers Season-long loan
17 August 2006 Nwankwo Kanu   West Bromwich Albion Portsmouth Free
17 August 2006 Jemal Johnson   Blackburn Rovers Wolverhampton Wanderers Loan[15]
18 August 2006 Dirk Kuyt     Feyenoord Liverpool £10m[4]
18 August 2006 Arturo Lupoli   Arsenal Derby County Season-long loan
21 August 2006 Khalid Boulahrouz     Hamburg Chelsea Undisclosed
21 August 2006 Anthony Le Tallec   Liverpool   Sochaux Season-long loan
22 August 2006 Jean-Alain Boumsong   Newcastle United   Juventus £3.3m[16]
22 August 2006 Kevin Phillips   Aston Villa West Bromwich Albion £700k
23 August 2006 Mathieu Berson   Aston Villa   Levante Undisclosed
23 August 2006 Tobias Hysen     Djurgårdens IF Sunderland £1.7m
23 August 2006 Andre Ooijer     PSV Eindhoven Blackburn Rovers Undisclosed
24 August 2006 Lee Naylor   Wolverhampton Wanderers   Celtic £600k
24 August 2006 Charlie Mulgrew     Celtic Wolverhampton Wanderers Swap[17]
24 August 2006 Obafemi Martins     Inter Milan Newcastle United £10.1m[18]
25 August 2006 Nicolas Anelka     Fenerbahçe Bolton Wanderers £8m
25 August 2006 Sam Parkin   Ipswich Town Luton Town £340k
25 August 2006 Ulises de la Cruz   Aston Villa Reading Free
25 August 2006 Kevin Kyle   Sunderland Coventry City Undisclosed
29 August 2006 Szilárd Németh   Middlesbrough   Alemannia Aachen Free
29 August 2006 Mido     A.S. Roma Tottenham Hotspur £4.5m[19]
29 August 2006 Andranik Teymourian     F.C. Aboomoslem Bolton Wanderers Undisclosed
30 August 2006 Junior Agogo   Bristol Rovers Nottingham Forest Undisclosed
30 August 2006 Stiliyan Petrov     Celtic Aston Villa £6.5m
30 August 2006 Neil Mellor   Liverpool Preston North End Undisclosed
30 August 2006 Manuel Fernandes     Benfica Portsmouth Season-long loan
30 August 2006 Jonathan Woodgate     Real Madrid Middlesbrough Season-long loan[20]
30 August 2006 Souleymane Diawara     Sochaux Charlton Athletic £3.7m
30 August 2006 Tommy Smith   Derby County Watford £500k
30 August 2006 Giuseppe Rossi   Manchester United Newcastle United Four-month loan
31 August 2006 Ricardo Fuller   Southampton Stoke City £100k
31 August 2006 Andy Cole   Manchester City Portsmouth £500k
31 August 2006 Florent Sinama Pongolle   Liverpool   Recreativo de Huelva Season-long loan
31 August 2006 Steed Malbranque   Fulham Tottenham Hotspur Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Wayne Routledge   Tottenham Hotspur Fulham Season-long loan
31 August 2006 Jonathan Douglas   Blackburn Rovers Leeds United Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Paul Ince   Wolverhampton Wanderers Swindon Town Free
31 August 2006 Sylvain Legwinski   Fulham Ipswich Town Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Dwight Yorke     Sydney FC Sunderland £200k
31 August 2006 Jason Euell   Charlton Athletic Middlesbrough £300k
31 August 2006 Nicky Forster   Ipswich Town Hull City £250k
31 August 2006 Omar Pouso     Penarol Charlton Athletic Season-long loan
31 August 2006 Javier Mascherano     Corinthians West Ham United Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Carlos Tevez     Corinthians West Ham United Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Niko Kranjčar     Hajduk Split Portsmouth £3.5m
31 August 2006 Kevin Kilbane   Everton Wigan Athletic £2m
31 August 2006 Colin Kazim-Richards   Brighton & Hove Albion Sheffield United £150k
31 August 2006 Shabani Nonda     AS Roma Blackburn Rovers Season-long loan[21]
31 August 2006 Jan Kromkamp   Liverpool   PSV Eindhoven Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Graham Kavanagh   Wigan Athletic Sunderland £500k
31 August 2006 Roudolphe Douala     Sporting Clube de Portugal Portsmouth Season-long loan
31 August 2006 Iñigo Idiakez   Derby County Southampton £250k
31 August 2006 Leon McKenzie   Norwich City Coventry City £1m
31 August 2006 Stanislav Varga     Celtic Sunderland Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Ross Wallace     Celtic Sunderland Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Antoine Sibierski   Manchester City Newcastle United Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Pascal Cygan   Arsenal Villarreal £2m
31 August 2006 DaMarcus Beasley     PSV Eindhoven Manchester City Season-long loan
31 August 2006 Michael Bridges   Carlisle United Hull City £350k
31 August 2006 David Cotterill   Bristol City Wigan Athletic £2m
31 August 2006 José Antonio Reyes   Arsenal   Real Madrid Season-long loan[22]
31 August 2006 Júlio Baptista     Real Madrid Arsenal Undisclosed[23]
31 August 2006 Liam Miller   Manchester United Sunderland Free
31 August 2006 David Connolly   Wigan Athletic Sunderland Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Eirik Bakke   Leeds United   Brann Free
31 August 2006 Junichi Inamoto   West Bromwich Albion   Galatasaray Undisclosed
31 August 2006 Shefki Kuqi   Blackburn Rovers Crystal Palace £2.5m
31 August 2006 Svetoslav Todorov   Portsmouth Wigan Athletic Season-long loan
31 August 2006 Pascal Chimbonda   Wigan Athletic Tottenham Hotspur £6m
31 August 2006 Robert Huth   Chelsea Middlesbrough £6m
31 August 2006 Ashley Cole   Arsenal Chelsea £5m
31 August 2006 William Gallas   Chelsea Arsenal Swap[24]
31 August 2006 Denílson     São Paulo Arsenal £3.4m

See also edit

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ a b c Chelsea complete Shevchenko deal BBC Sport. Retrieved on 6 January 2007
  2. ^ "Transfer Shorts". Football Transfers.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ^ Premier clubs enjoy summer spree BBC News. Retrieved on 9 January 2007
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Some sources state the fee as being undisclosed.
  5. ^ £12m paid to Manchester United, and £4m to Lyn Oslo. This was an unusual transfer; see Mikel John Obi's article for details.
  6. ^ "NINE FOR BERBATOV". tottenhamhotspur.com. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  7. ^ In Major League Soccer, all player contracts are owned by the league, not by individual teams.
  8. ^ "MORIENTES LEAVES FOR VALENCIA". liverpoolfc.tv. Archived from the original on 15 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  9. ^ Hamann signed a pre-contract agreement with Bolton before he quickly changing his mind, and joined Manchester City the next day. Bolton received £400k from Manchester City in compensation.
  10. ^ Crespo joins Inter Milan on a two-year loan, which will bring him to the end of his Chelsea contract, making him a free agent and free to join Inter permanently. Chelsea have the option of re-calling him after the 2006–07 season.[1]
  11. ^ Part of George McCartney deal
  12. ^ Kuszczak joins United on loan for the first season and then will sign permanently in July 2007.
  13. ^ a b Part of Tomasz Kuszczak deal
  14. ^ Previous club: Leicester City
  15. ^ "Johnson completes move to Wolves". BBC Sport. BBC. 17 August 2006. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  16. ^ "Boumsong joins Juventus". juventus.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2006.
  17. ^ Part of Lee Naylor deal
  18. ^ "Oba Completes Toon Transfer!". nufc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 June 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2006.
  19. ^ "CESSIONE A TITOLO DEFINITO DEL DIRITTO ALLE PRESTAZIONI SPORTIVE DEL CALCIATORE HOSSAM HUSSEIN ABDELHAMID AHMED 'MIDO'". asroma.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 5 December 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2006.
  20. ^ Woodgate joins for one year on loan, Middlesbrough then have the option to buy him permanently.
  21. ^ Nonda joins for one year on loan, Blackburn then have the option to buy him permanently.
  22. ^ Reyes joins for one year on loan, Real Madrid then have the option to buy him permanently.
  23. ^ "Baptista moves to Arsenal as Reyes joins Real Madrid". Arsenal.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  24. ^ Part of Ashley Cole deal

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