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| D.C. United and Los Angeles earn top marks for their winter work, but the true test will come when the season starts. |
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| The German has struggled to adapt to the pace of the top English division and feels no rest over the new year period has hampered his form |
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| Several teams have wrestled with the impact graduating Generation adidas players can have on a club's roster and salary budget landscape this winter. |
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| Schalke missed the chance to join Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga Saturday with a 1-1 draw at home to Mainz. Mohamed Zidan gave Mainz the lead in the 15th minute before Schalke winter signing Chinedu Obasi pulled one back in the 59th. Borussia Moenchengladbach failed to take advantage and remains a point behind Schalke after being held 0-0 at Wolfsburg. |
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| AC Milan signed Sulley Muntari on loan from Inter Milan, which completed a deal for Colombia midfielder Fredy Guarin on the last day of the winter transfer market on Tuesday. As clubs, players and agents gathered at a somewhat chaotic ATA Hotel in Milan, where the Lega is holding the last two days of the transfer market, the most surprising deal of the window involved a player not even in the... |
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| Lorient has signed defensive midfielder Abdou Sissoko on loan from Italian side Udinese on the last day of the winter transfer market. The 21-year-old Sissoko, who is the younger brother of Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Mohamed Sissoko, made only one appearance for Udinese in the Italian Cup earlier this month. |
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| The Bianconeri have added the midfielder to their squad with immediate effect in the closing stages of the winter transfer window. |
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| World Cup winner Vincenzo Iaquinta moved to Serie A struggler Cesena on loan from Juventus on the last day of the winter transfer market on Tuesday. Iaquinta joined Juventus from Udinese in an ?11 million deal in 2007 but has struggled with injuries over the past two years and has not played since last March. |
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| AC Milan completed the signing of teenage striker Philipp Prosenik from Chelsea on the last day of the winter transfer market on Tuesday. Milan, along with Juventus and Bayern Munich, tried to sign the young Austrian in 2009, but Prosenik opted to join Chelsea's academy. Prosenik started well in England but has had lengthy spells on the sidelines because of serious injuries. |
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| Racing Genk says forward Kevin De Bruyne will transfer to Chelsea on a 5 1/2 -year deal. Belgium's league champion said the deal was completed on Tuesday, on the last day of the winter transfer window. The 20-year-old De Bruyne is to finish his season in Belgium before going to the London club over the summer. |