Samuel Eto’o's agent Josep Maria Mesalles made the announcement after having talks with officials from the Serie A champion, and confirmed that Eto’o will sign a five-year contract with Inter Milan.

The agent Josep Maria Mesalles also said: “It is not official, but an accord with Inter is done, the player is happy. The only problem is negotiating his exit from Barcelona. But within a week, it will be resolved.

Also Inter’s striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be heading in the opposite direction.

Eto’o scored 34 goals for Barcelona last season.

The UEFA president, Michel Platini has censured Real Madrid’s movements in the transfer market, as they have spent close to €200 million just to sign Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema this summer.

Michel Platini said that: “Real Madrid have ruined the market, making these lavish signings will fuel a rise in inflation, which will impact negatively on all the clubs across Europe.”

He also said: “In 2012, we will introduce financial fair play, clubs would only be able to buy players with their own resources, without any external aid to abet speculation.”.

Goalkeeper Victor Valdes has ended the speculation surrounding that he leave Barcelona his future after agreeing to a new contract with Barcelona.

Victor Valdes has extended the contract with the Catalan club’s for a new five-year contract at the Camp Nou.

Goalkeeper Victor Valdes said: “I am very happy and very satisfied, for me, it is an honor to be able to defend the Barca colors every day, the most important thing is to repeat titles. I am happy to stay for many more years with the club I love.”

Carlo Ancelotti from Chelsea announcing the signing of Russia midfielder Yuri Zhirkov from CSKA Moscow.

Also Carlo Ancelotti said: “Zhirkov is naturally on the left. I think he can do all the work and can play in defence and in between. Terry will be captain of Chelsea for ever. He said he wants to stay, we want to keep him no problem. For him and for us the story continues.

Carlo Ancelotti said he did not think his new club needed to make major personnel changes on the team.

The boss os Birmingham City, Alex McLeish, would really like to take a risk on Newcastle United midfielder, Joey Barton.

The Manchester City star who has no more than 26 years old, was linked with a season-long loan switch to St Andrew’s.

Birmingham City has a signing controversial characters history and it is also trying to reform these characters. Through them are Jermaine Pennant and Lee Bowyer.

Joey Barton has accepted not only once, but twice on charges of violence and he received 24 weeks imprisonment for assaulting and affray. It all started to an incident that took place outside, at the restaurant of McDonald from Liverpool City.

Last year in July he has got 4 months suspended sentence after he recognized that he had assaulted Manchester City team as long as a training ground dispute took place.

In total, Joey earns around 104,000 dollars per week at St James’ Park while Newcastle United is trying hardly to get him off their wage bill.

Michael Owen has joined Premier League champion Manchester United.

Owen, 29, signed a two-year contract with them, also Owen played forLiverpoolLiverpool and Real Madrid and now he signed with Manchester United after his contract expired Tuesday at recently relegated Newcastle.

Sir Alex Ferguson said: “Michael Owen is a world class forward with a proven goal-scoring record at the highest level and that has never been in question. Coming to Manchester United with the expectations that we have is something that Michael will relish.”.

Owen spent Friday at the Premier League champion’s Carrington training complex and a Manchester hospital for final medical examinations on his troublesome right knee.

Chelsea said that John Terry is not for sale, all this after Manchester City make a new offer for him.

The bid of reportedly $56.7 million for John Terry defender followed an approach last season from Manchester City.

A statament grom Chelsea said: “We have completely rejected an offer from Manchester City for John Terry, it was made clear to City, for a second time following an approach last season, that we would not entertain any conversation on the subject.

John Terry said. “It is important that we get a bit of stability under Ancelotti for two or three years.”

Franck Ribery has rejected a contract improvement from Bayern Munich.

Bayern Munich offering him €8 million per year, reportedly double what he is currently earning, but Franck Ribery has turned down the offer.

Bayern had previously slapped a €100m price tag on the 26-year-old, while former coach Omar Hitzfield yesterday predicted that the Munich outfit would only be interested if an offer arrived around the region of USD70-USD80 million .

Chelsea and Manchester United will be interesting for Franck Ribery.

Thierry Henry has revealed that he is seriously contemplating playing in Major League Soccer in the United States before retiring.

Also Thierry Henry still believes that he has something to offer Barcelona and wants to complete his contract with the European champions.

Thierry Henry said: “I want to stay with Barcelona for two more seasons and then I will leave.”

After the arrivals of Ivica Olic and Mario Gomez at Bayern Munich, it seemed as if striker Luca Toni, currently involved in the Confederations Cup with Italy, was destined to leave the german club, but according to his agent, Luca Toni future is still at Bayern Munich.

Tullio Tinti spoke to German daily Tageszeitung and said that: “Luca Toni will stay at Bayern 100%, he’s a Bayern player and will continue to be that. All the rumours are pure invention, they have nothing to do with reality.”