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We keep having fresh updates on free agents, with Adrien Rabiot confirmed earlier this week as a new player for Olympique Marseille after finally making a decision on a new club after leaving Juventus, while now there’s also news on Anthony Martial as he’s joined AEK Athens.
Martial had been a free agent since leaving Manchester United earlier in the summer, and he’s now completed his move to Greece on a three-year deal. Martial had been negotiating with Brazilian club Flamengo but his salary was too expensive for them, and so now he’s ready for this new experience in Greek football.
It was a long saga after he left United, with opportunities as well with Como and some clubs in Turkey, but now it’s all done for him to join AEK Athens for this new chapter.
There were a lot of stories about Noni Madueke’s future at Chelsea this summer, and it’s true that there was at one point a moment when the Blues considered selling Madueke. They never considered a loan or that kind of solution, but in case of receiving an important proposal, it was a possibility for them to sell the player.
That was at the end of June, and it came during that period you may remember when there was some confusion with Financial Fair Play and we saw Newcastle and other clubs trying some swap deals around England to make the FFP rules work for them.
So, at that point Madueke was one of the main targets for Newcastle. Then what happened? After that, Chelsea saw how special Madueke was in training and in official games under Enzo Maresca. There is the feeling inside Chelsea that Maresca and his staff have been able to change the mindset of Madueke – it’s something they’ve been working on in training and…
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