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The collective spending of all 20 teams in Spain's top flight was €26. 1m, making it the 16th highest-spending league in football this winter Dermot Corrigan6 Brighton & Hove Albion full-back Valentin Barco is close to joining Strasbourg on loan with an obligation to buy.
Barco, 20, is set to move to the Ligue 1 side, part of Blue Co’s multi-club group that also owns Chelsea, on loan for the second half of the season, with the deal including an obligation to make the move permanent for a fee of €10million (£8. 47m).
The deal is also set to include a 10 per cent sell-on clause, enabling Brighton to profit on any future sale.
Barco has spent the first half of the season on loan at Sevilla but featured just seven times in La Liga, and The. .. Guillermo Rai and Andy Naylor33 Sergio Ramos is in talks with Monterrey over a possible move to the Mexican club but no formal proposal has been received yet.
The 38-year-old former Real Madrid defender has been without a side since July 2024, when he left Sevilla and has spent the time since training at home.
Madrid have suffered from injury problems in defence this season, but the club has never shown interest in their former captain returning to the club.
Speaking to ESPN about Ramos, Monterrey president Antonio Noriega confirmed Ramos is an option and that negotiations are underway.
He said: “It is on the list and. .. Guillermo Rai7 Diego Carlos had the raw materials and pedigree when he signed - his time at Villa was punctuated by extreme highs and lows Jacob Tanswell20 Advertisement Aston Villa have reached a verbal agreement with Fenerbahce for the sale of Diego Carlos.
Fenerbahce confirmed on Tuesday that the two clubs had reached “an agreement in principle” for the 31-year-old defender, who will now travel to Istanbul to finalise his move.
The Turkish club are set to pay their Premier League counterparts a fee worth €10million (£8. 46m), with Villa considering Sevilla’s Loic Bade among the options as a potential replacement.
Carlos has started eight Premier League matches for Villa this season, who is behind Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings and Pau Torres. .. Jacob Tanswell27 Sevilla defender Kike Salas is among three people to be arrested and placed under investigation for alleged fraud.
The 22-year-old and the two other defendants were arrested on January 14 but were all released without being brought before the judge in charge of the proceedings pending police investigation.
Sevilla said in a statement they will “show full respect for the judicial process as well as the presumption of innocence” of their player.
The court of Moron de la Frontera — a Spanish town in the province of Seville, where Salas was born — has said its investigation. .. Guillermo Rai Sevilla are set to agree a deal with Augsburg to sign Switzerland international Ruben Vargas.
The 26-year-old is set to sign a long-term deal with the Spanish club in an agreement that will bring an end to his five-and-a-half-year spell at Augsburg, where he has scored 22 goals in 161 first-team appearances having joined from Swiss side Luzern in 2019.
Vargas missed six weeks earlier in the season with an ankle injury and has started just three Bundesliga matches this term for Augsburg, who are 13th.
The winger has been capped 50 times by Switzerland, for whom he has scored eight goals and has. .. Guillermo Rai and more6 The Sevilla legend plays the 943rd and final match of his career on Sunday. He speaks exclusively to The Athletic about his 22-year career Dermot Corrigan16 Mir was arrested in September after allegations of sexual assault and is under investigation. He scored on comeback from injury last week Guillermo Rai Valencia is still dealing with the effects of catastrophic flooding. This weekend, its football team paid tribute to the victims Dermot Corrigan4