Earlier this week, Goal.com asked the readers to vote on the best deal of the transfer window.

It was a record-breaking summer, with Cristiano Ronaldo becoming the most expensive footballer of all time.

Manchester City invested heavily on proven Premier League talent, like Emmanuel Adebayor and Carlos Tevez, while Barcelona added Zlatan Ibrahimovic, among others.

However, it is in Serie A where the summer’s best business was conducted.

A landslide Poll victory for Diego proves that Juventus pulled off a great coup when landing the Brazilian from Werder Bremen.

Diego To Juventus
39.29%
Kaka To Real Madrid
11.71%
Zlatan Ibrahimovic To Barcelona
9.4%
Cristiano Ronaldo To Real Madrid
5.24%
Samuel Eto’o To Inter
4.93%
Arjen Robben To Bayern Munich
4.78%
Wesley Sneijder To Inter
4.31%
Glen Johnson To Liverpool
4.16% (Goal.com)

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Inter Milan recently stated that they would only settle for £76million for striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic while Bayern Munich have slapped a £45million price on French winger Franck Ribery.

However, the best value-for-money looks to be at the Santiago Bernabeu where a terrible season has triggered a mass exodus as the Madrid giants look to recover some of the £136million spent on Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Up to 12 players face the chop from new Real Madrid president Florentino Perez including Dutch quartet Arjen Robben, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Rafael Van der Vaart and Wesley Sneijder. With each of them understood to be available for cut-prices it is clear where Europe’s top clubs should look to do their shopping this summer.

Arjen Robben – The flying Dutch winger was Los Merengues most inspiring player in 2009, his return to form was pivotal in the club’s 17 game unbeaten run which saw them close the gap on Barcelona to just four points at one stage.
Reported Cost – £20million

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar – The 25-year-old was signed by Real Madrid this January for a reported £20million and despite not making the expected impact in his first six months, he is still one of the most promising strikers in Europe. A £15million price-tag would be very tempting for a number of top clubs.

Rafael Van der Vaart – After scoring four goals in his first month in the Spanish capital, it looked like the club had found Guti’s long term replacement. However, niggly injuries and a rumoured fall-out with manager Juande Ramos hampered his fluidity in the first team, placing doubt over his future.
Reported Cost – £15million

Wesley Sneijder – The industrious midfielder was key to Madrid’s title success in 2008 but an injury-plagued second season has left him in the cold as Lassana Diarra and Fernando Gago have established a good partnership in center-midfield.
Reported Cost – £18million

Other talented players set to leave Real Madrid include Gabriel Heinze (£5m), Royston Drenthe (£10m), Ruud Van Nistelrooy (£2.5m), Javier Saviola (£5m) and Jerzy Dudek (Free) who would certainly have no trouble finding new clubs.

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Everyone loves a bargain and getting a player of international pedigree without paying a penny to his former club makes the acquisition all the sweeter.
5. Gary McAllister (Coventry – Liverpool, 2000)
You could have been forgiven for thinking Gerard Houllier had lost his marbles when snapped up Coventry midfielder McAllister on a free transfer in 2000. The midfielder had enjoyed a distinguished career with Leicester City, Leeds United and the Sky Blues but, at 36 years of age, it looked like McAllister was past his best.
But, despite being sent off in his full Liverpool debut against Arsenal at Highbury, McAllister proved to be an instrumental part of the Anfield side’s unique 2001 cup treble, when The Reds secured the League, FA and UEFA Cups in the same season.
4. Denis Law (Manchester United – Manchester City, 1973)
The 1964 European Footballer of the Year played in some of the greatest Manchester United sides of the 1960s alongside the likes of Bobby Charlton and George Best, scoring 237 goals for the Red Devils.
Law became the first £100,000 Footballer when he signed from Torino in 1962 and had played for Manchester City before leaving for Italy.
In 1973 Law crossed the Manchester divide again when, controversially, he was given a free transfer by Tommy Docherty. Apparently, Law only found out about the news because he was watching TV in a pub in Aberdeen with friends. (Daily Mail)

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So are there any free Transfers that you can recollect as being worthy of mention or indeed are there any potential freebies you would like to see your club make?

Founded in 1904, Hull City will, for the first time in their history participate in the top tier of English football and are clearly intent on staying there. Led by their superb young manager Phil Brown, The Tigers are making quite a statement with their constant activity in the transfer market. Having already signed three quality players in George Boateng, Geovanni and Bernard Mendy, they have been linked with a whole host of other players that will improve on their current squad: Peter Halmosi, Christian Vieri, Stelios Giannakapoulos, Seyi Olofinjana, Emile Mpenza, David Nugent, Michael Dawson, Ricardo Rocha (loan), Scott Carson and Delron Buckley. Realizing they currently do not have the squad to cut it in the Premiership, Hull are rightly wasting no time in building a capable squad for their new campaign.

Too often is the case where newly promoted teams fail to add any significant quality to the team and are later made to pay for this, an example of this would be last years Derby County, who upon promotion through the playoffs, failed to make any real effort in the off-season to sign players of Premiership ability. Only in January, where they were all but down, did they make a last-ditch attempt of rescuing their dying season by signing a few ‘decent’ players, such as Robbie Savage, Hossam Ghaly and Laurent Robert but it was too little too late for the Rams.

Hull City are clearly a club that do not want to leave things to chance and are proving to be an exciting proposition in this year’s pre-season with their ambitious approach, one can only respect manager Phil Brown and chairman Paul Duffen for this.

This will be good news for many Liverpool fans, who feel the club already have enough talent in a midfield which includes Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano, and those who feel the club is just a world-class winger away from contending for the Premier League crown.

Although Barry wants to move, Benitez may not have the financial backing to sign him, especially with the imminent signing of Dossena. Which will disappoint the England international.

“Gareth has spoken to Martin since he returned from England’s game in Trinidad and told him how he feels.
“At this stage of his career Gareth wants to be playing Champions League football and believes this is his chance to do it.” Barry’s agent told The Sun

However, Silva could leave for Anfield for far less than his £20m price tag, as Valencia look to pull themselves out of their precarious financial postion. Rafa is hoping to land him for just ten million pounds.
Key to the Silva transfer will be Liverpool’s chief scout Eduardo Macia, who was close with the Spanish superstar in his time working at the Mestalla Stadium.

Publically, Valencia insist they do not want to lose one of their most influential players, but privately they are reported to have contacted several clubs throughout Europe to gauge interest in Silva and David Villa(The Telegraph)

With Silva on one side, and the ever-improving Ryan Babel on the other, many a Liverpool fan will have their fingers crossed that this could be the real deal.

According to Spanish rag, Marca, the London club is prepared to throw £20m in Valencia’s direction in the hope that the club will be so kind as to send striker David Villa their way.

Tottenham are preparing to bid £20m for Valencia striker David Villa. (Marca 0919 BST)

Villa has been fantastic so far for a Spanish side that has made it to within one game of the Euro 2008 final. While most assumed that Valencia were going to let the striker leave for a discounted rate this summer, it appears that his recent showing has again made him a hot commodity.

Are Spurs supporters excited about the prospect of having Berby and Villa up front? Do you think he could be had for £20m?

Multiple sources are saying that Roman Abramovich has decided to get back in the transfer race, and will give Scolari a blank cheque to chase the top players in the world.

New Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will be handed a £100m transfer kitty to lure the best players in the world to Stamford Bridge. (Various)

The Daily Mirror reports that Scolari will not waste any time trying to bring the best and brightest to Stamford Bridge, and will prepare a £55m super bid for a certain Milan midfielder.

Scolari will target AC Milan star Kaka and will spend £55m on the midfielder. (Daily Mirror)

Oh, and those Rumours about Valencia ace David Villa being linked with Liverpool? Well apparently the new Chelsea man will be happy to squash them by making an ambitious swoop for the Spanish star.

David Villa is the most wanted striker in Europe with Scolari favourite to land the £25m Spaniard. (Daily Mirror)

It’s sure going to be an interesting summer at the London club!

If Chelsea supporters had £100m to spend this summer, who would you bring to the club?

“Manchester City’s desire to slow down negotiations for the £18m-rated Brazilian striker Jo to give their new manager, Mark Hughes, a proper sight of him, appears to be a luxury they cannot afford with Milan and an unnamed Spanish club expressing interest.” (Independent)

So it looks like Man City better move sharpish for their Brazilian or someone could hijack the deal!

The Sun reports that Alonso and Juve have agreed on a deal that would pay him £70,000-a-week, however any possible deal that could be concluded quickly is being hampered by Liverpool’s inability to part with Alonso for anything less than £16m.

Juventus have agreed terms with Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso but have to agree a fee with the Reds, who want £16m compared to the Italian club’s £14.5m offer. (The Sun)

Do you sense a common theme here? First Rafa couldn’t part with Scott Carson for anything less than £10, and now he won’t let go of Alonso for £14.5m. I understand the need to be a shrewd businessman, but if Rafa is planning on buying any big names this summer, then he’s going to have to make some compromises when it comes to moving some of his bigger name players.

Do Liverpool supporters think Rafa is correct in telling Juve to pay £16m or leave? Or do you think it’s time the ‘goateed-one’ got going on his transfer plans and sold Alonso for £14.5m?

It seems like Roma are well and good paying current Liverpool left-back John Arne Riise in Euro’s and sunscreen in the hopes of wooing him to the historic city.

John Arne Riise is set to lead the exodus from Liverpool by sealing a 5million move to Roma. (Daily Express)

Don’t say I didn’t warn you, Roma.

So what’s your take Liverpool supporters? Is Riise good to leave for £5m? Or would you rather hold out hope that someone else is crazy enough to offer more than Roma?