Friday Night Review.

In case you don't know the drill, the 'Friday Night Review' is where I look at all the transfers into the Premiership during the past week, and then pick out the top 3 transfers.

Actually a suprisingly quiet week for transfers with Premiership Clubs only officially signing 5 players. Key word is "officially", there are plenty of negotiations going through, but I will stick to the actual transfers made this week. So the top 3 are:

1. Geovanni [Cruzeiro - Manchester City] Free
2. Lee Cook [QPR - Fulham] Undisclosed
3. Kieran Richardson [Man United - Sunderland] Undisclosed

To be honest, it wasn't exactly the hardest decision making process as the only other 2 transfers were Etuhu to Sunderland, and Harewood to Aston Villa. Not really the best group of players.

Still, Geovanni will be a good signing for City. He has plenty of experience after playing for Barcelona and Benfica, and will add depth to a very thin City midfield. He is the kind of squad player that every team needs, someone who can come in with 15 minutes left in a game and calm things down so that the team can see the game out. For that reason, I believe he will play an important role in City's season, as when teams are not used to winning, they find it harder to close games out, and since City are not used to winning, he will be important to them this season.

Cook comes in a narrow second place because he brings balance to the Fulham team. He is a natural winger who will add an extra dimension to their game, a dimension that Fulham definitely lacked last season, and once he becomes used to the Premiership tempo, he could be an important player for them.

Richardson is a player I'm not so sure about, but if Keane can give him a good run of games, and he can recapture his West Brom form, then he could turn out to be a key player in keeping them up. He has the potential to create that key chance that may turn a loss into a draw, or a draw into a win, and that could turn out to be the difference in Sunderland staying up or going down. It feels like he has been around for a long time but he is still quite young and he now has a chance to really show what he can do, and he has to take that chance, because it might be his last.

Right, in news today, we see that Mido is apparently moving to Birmingham for a 6 million pound fee. Personally this is a silly transfer, he did ntohing to justify this price tag last season and he is worth a maximum of 3 million. Hegulson is moving to Bolton for around 1.5 million and I'd probably rather have him in my side. Why don't Birmingham loan him for one season and see how good a season he has, if he plays well, then offer money for him later. Of course, they could then face more competition for his signature but this is still a silly deal for Birmingham, I do not believe that Mido will turn out to be worth 6 million pounds and they'd be better off putting their money somewhere else.

Middlesbrough are going to sign Luke Young from Charlton for 2.5 million in a good bit of business. He has plenty of Premiership experience and is a consistent performer, rather then spectacular. Boro are in a bit of a limbo, they have made a few transfers but still need to bolster their midfield if they really want to compete this season. A friend of mine is tipping them for relegation, and I do think they might struggle this season.

That's that for today, looking forward to tomorrow...I hear there's a certain wizarding book out...anything to do with Zidane?