Official: Valencia CF sign Joao Pereira

Valencia CF has reached an agreement with Sporting Clube de Portugal for the transfer of right back Joao Pereira, who becomes new Valencia player for the next three seasons plus an option for a fourth season.

The transfer fee is 3.5 million euros and is basically a steal from Sporting. Joao Pereira said he was "very happy to come to a big club like Valencia and a league as competitive and demanding as the Spanish." For its part, the sporting director of Valencia CF, Braulio Vazquez, said he was "very satisfied with the recruitment of a player who is fixed in its selection, which has completed a great season and reaching the club with great ambition and its full football "

Joao Pereira wasn't the first choice for Valencia CF as the club tried to sign Van Der Wiel for two months, but failed to reach an agreement over the transfer fee with Ajax, they also looked at Mathieu Debuchy, but Lille wasn't willing to sell before the Euro 2012 and Valencia CF went with the third and cheapest option of Joao Pereira.

Portland 0-1 Valencia CF - Match Report

Valencia CF win their first match  out of two on the US tourney with a goal by Aritz Aduriz in the first half of the match.

Soldado all but certain to feature on Euro 2012

Yesterday Barcelona's doctor reported that Villa is not ready to play for Spain, which was followed by David Villa himself on twitter saying that he tried to be ready, but ultimately is not 100% fit to play for Spain.

This will all but cement Soldado's place in Spain's squad for Euro 2012 and would also probably mean that Torres will also be called to the squad as Villa is gone. So with two slots open chances are looking great and only if Del Bosque decided to bring back Pedro from Barcelona and pick Negredo over Soldado will Soldado not feature.

So far Roberto Soldado has trained for few days with Spain, alongside Jordi Alba.

Espanyol wants Chori Dominguez

Espanyol is interested in Chori Dominguez as they look to strengthen their squad for the coming season. They lack most in the attack and so they have identified Chori Dominguez as the perfect reinforcement.

While I know most would cheer at this idea, it is said that Pellegrino is a fan of his compatriot Chori and is looking to integrate him into the Valencia CF squad.

Fenerbahce to buy Mehmet Topal?

Spanish website Superdeporte reports that Turkish club Fenerbahce has a 7 million offer ready for Valencia CF defensive midfielder Mehmet Topal and is their prime target to get this summer.

Mehmet Topal didn't play too many matches this season and his quality dropped down a bit from last season, and the fact that he is from Turkey means that he wouldn't be too opposed to leave Valencia CF.

Turkish offer for Tino Costa

Spanish radio station "Nou" claims that as of now an unnamed Turkish club has offered 6 million euros for Tino Costa. This is probably true, as radio station Nou have been pretty accurate in all of their reports.

Tino Costa has said that he will be looking for offers as he was not pleased this year with his playing time, although I wish he'd actually his performances and how bad they were this years, instead of blaming everyone else for his weakness and bad play.

Anyways he is probably going to reject any offer coming from Turkey as he is hoping to get an offer from France from Lille, Sochaux or Montepellier.

Valencia CF offers Maduro a contract extension

Superdeporte reports that Valencia CF have offered Hedwiges Maduro a two years contract extension. Maduro is right now in Holland working with his national team and has said that he wants to continue somewhere where he'll get more playing time so he doesn't loose his chances for playing for Holland.

Hedwiges Maduro is going to make a decision in at most two weeks and we'll see what his decision will be, but don't be surprised if he decides to leave, although so far no team has shown interest for him.