Manchester City continued their spending spree with the signing of Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor for an undisclosed fee on Saturday.
David Beckham returned to Major League Soccer with a whisper, not a shout, as his Los Angeles Galaxy beat the New York Red Bulls 3-1 on Thursday.
Inter Milan have held talks with Barcelona about selling Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the Spanish side and bringing Samuel Eto'o and Aleksandr Hleb in the opposite direction, club President Massimo Moratti said.
Manchester United has canceled a planned visit to Indonesia after Friday's bomb attack on the hotel where it was due to stay in Jakarta.
Maybe it was the heat, or the global commute or the rust from weeks without the intense effort of European soccer, but it turned out to be a quiet return for the marquee player of US soccer, David Beckham.
FIFA plans to clamp down on international transfers through closer monitoring of clubs and players rather than relying on the regulation of non-member agents, soccer's world governing body said on Tuesday.
Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini says Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, who the Spanish giants signed for a record 94 million euros, does not have a star mentality.
Chinese international midfielder Zheng Zhi has left the relegated English Championship team Charlton Athletic after declining a new contract.
US President Barack Obama seemed pleased with the gift he received yesterday from Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but it was bittersweet nonetheless.
Real Madrid sold 15 Cristiano Ronaldo jerseys per minute at the club's shop at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the two hours that followed the player's presentation on Monday, reports said on Wednesday.
Cristiano Ronaldo received a rapturous welcome from 80,000 Real Madrid fans Monday, an outpouring so exuberant the soccer star had to be hustled away when spectators leaped barriers and took the field.
Britain's newspapers Saturday could not decide if Michael Owen's surprise move to Manchester United represented another canny swoop by Sir Alex Ferguson - or a waste of money on an injury-prone player.