Mourinho : I am done with summer shopping

Jose Mourinho insists Chelsea have
completed their transfer business for the summer.

The Blues have moved quickly in the transfer market this summer, with Cesc Fabregas' arrival ahead of the World Cup followed by the signings of Diego Costa and Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid.

Promising midfielder Mario Pasalic has also joined from Hajduk Split.
"I have to say my club did a fantastic job, and not just because of what we bought, but because we did it in almost record time. The transfer market closes 31 August
and we close our market on July 19. We finished the market today," said Mourinho.

"The club did fantastic, we knew the targets, we knew the players and the club attacked them and their clubs at a very early stage.

"We got exactly what we need and what we want. The squad is one which I like very much and I look forward to starting the season."

Mourinho believes he has a squad capable of winning the Premier League next season, but accepts that any of the title hopefuls could also easily end up fifth, with
Manchester United expected to challenge again under Louis van Gaal.

"Last year, if you had asked me in July, I would never have said Man United would be outside the top four. This season I will tell you one (to miss out) and I have a big
percentage of making a mistake," said Mourinho.

"There were good teams last season and there will be better teams this season because everyone is investing.
"A few years ago, you make a team to be champions and most probably you are champions. Now if you make a team to be champions, you try to finish in the top four."

"Why I like the Premier League so much is that at this moment, nobody knows who is going to win the title.

"I know that we want to and I know that we can, but it is the kind of competition where I can't say.

"At this moment, I think between us, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man United, Man City - who is going to be first, who is going to play in the Europa League, I don't know."

Mourinho said it only took him 20 minutes to convince Fabregas to join from Barcelona and insists the midfielder never wanted to return to Arsenal.

"I spoke with him 20 minutes. I think he really wanted to come to us," he added.
"As you know, Arsenal had an option where they could interfere, but I think he was not open to that, I think he was very, very much in our direction, so it was an easy job for me."

West Brom breaks bank for Ideye

West Brom have signed Nigeria
international striker Brown Ideye for a club-record fee from Dynamo Kiev.

The 25-year-old has signed a three-year contract, with an option for a further 12 months, after agreeing personal terms and passing a medical.

Ideye has been handed the No.9 shirt and moves to The Hawthorns for an undisclosed fee, widely reported to be £9m.

“Done deal, officially a West Bromwich Albion player, thank you god,” Ideye tweeted. “Dream come true ... EPL. Would like to thank my family and my agents."

The former Sochaux and Neuchatel Xamax forward has netted 33 goals in 74 matches for Dyanmo Kiev and scored five times in 23 appearances for his country, but was overlooked for this summer’s World Cup in Brazil.

“Brown is a quality striker and I’m looking forward to working with him,” manager Alan Irvine told Albion’s website.

“He’s a strong, quick, powerful player who likes to get in behind defences and has plenty of Champions League and international experience."

Technical director Terry Burton added: “It is a fantastic signing because of the quality and the potential of the player.

“I can see that he really wants to be here and that he really wants to be playing in the Premier League.
“He’s a dynamic player who likes to get in behind defenders and he has the pace to do so.

“He gets himself into good scoring
positions in the box and if there are
opportunities the he will get on the end of them.

“We’re looking forward to seeing him play for the club and scoring goals.” The player’s representatives, Hootan Ahmadi and Ali Barat, confirmed the player
rejected several other offers to make the move to West Brom.

They said: "A number of clubs expressed an interest in Ideye, but West Brom worked hard to get him. It is a club record deal and it shows how highly West Brom value him.

"Ideye has always wanted to play in the Premier League and he is really looking forward to the start of the season.  He has scored goals where ever he has been I'm sure he will do the same and show his
quality at West Brom.”

Albion previously broke their transfer fee record when they splashed out £6m on Stephane Sessegnon last September.

Germany dismantles Argentina to clinch world cup

Mario Gotze's 113th-minute volley
fired Germany to World Cup glory with a 1-0 win over Argentina at the
Maracana.

The tournament's outstanding team
failed to repeat the fluency and
brilliance of their 7-1 semi-final romp against Brazil but Joachim Low's team found one more sumptuous moment during the second half of extra time.

Bayern Munich playmaker Gotze, on as an 88th-minute replacement for World Cup record goalscorer Miroslav Klose, chested down Andre Schurrle's floated left-wing cross at the near post to superbly steer home from six yards.

It was the first time Argentina had
found themselves behind in the
competition and it came as a bitter pill to swallow after Alejandro Sabella's men had created the better chances in normal time.

Gonzalo Higuain passed up a glorious opportunity midway though the first half and the Argentina striker also had a first-half effort correctly ruled out for offside.

Germany defender Benedikt Howedes then headed against the post on the stroke of the interval, and after the break passions threatened to boil over in what was an understandably feisty
encounter.

Lionel Messi fired agonisingly wide
shortly after the restart, while
Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer
was lucky not to be punished for
clattering a knee into Higuain's face as the striker ran through on goal.

Neuer's opposite number, Sergio
Romero, denied Schurrle inside the
first minute of extra time, while fellow substitute Rodrigo Palacio fluffed his lines at the other end before Gotze sealed Germany's fourth World Cup triumph.

The newly crowned champions were forced into an 11th-hour change after influential midfielder Sami Khedira suffered the heartbreak of sustaining a calf strain during the warm-up.

Borussia Monchengladbach's Christoph Kramer came in for the Real Madrid man, despite having only played 12 minutes during the tournament and being absent from Low's provisional 30-man squad before replacing Andre Hahn.

Toni Kroos drilled an early free-kick
into the defensive wall, prompting an Argentina break on which Ezequiel Lavezzi shot across the face of goal.

Veteran Germany striker Klose was
then muscled away from Philipp
Lahm's inviting 13th-minute cross by Martin Demichelis as Low's men
settled into an ominous rhythm,
although Ezequiel Garay's shuddering shoulder charge into Kramer's face that ultimately cut short the 23-year- old's fairytale appearance showed Argentina were not ready to be dictated to.

The South Americans should have
taken the lead in the 21st minute,
Higuain pulling his shot wastefully
wide after Kroos' ill-judged header
back sold Germany's defence horribly short.

Nine minutes later, the Napoli man
thought he had atoned, sweeping
home Lavezzi's low cross, only to see his wild and lengthy celebrations denied by an offside flag. Schurrle, on for the stricken Kramer, drew a sharp save from Romero, while Messi forced Jerome Boateng to hack his cross-shot out of the goalmouth after racing down the right.

Howedes - somewhat fortunate to
have only been booked for a reckless lunge on Pablo Zabaleta earlier in the half - then thudded Kroos' stoppage- time corner against the post to conclude an eventful opening period.

Messi's big moment looked to have
arrived two minutes into the second half but the Barcelona superstar shot past the far post on the end of Lucas Biglia's measured throughball, with Neuer beaten.

An Argentina attack bolstered by
Sergio Aguero's half-time introduction for Lavezzi continued to give Germany's high defensive line some nervy moments, and Neuer - in full-on 'sweeper keeper' mode - was on the wrong side of robust in clattering through Higuain in the 57th minute as
he sought to get on the end of
Zabaleta's raking ball.

Referee Nicola Rizzoli awarded a
German free-kick amid Argentine
bemusement.
Bookings in quick succession for Javier Mascherano and Aguero hinted at bubbling frustration as the game entered its final quarter and Germany ended the 90 minutes back on the front foot, as Kroos drilled the ball past the post from 18 yards.

Schurrle almost provided an explosive start to extra time as Romero stood firm and the Argentina counter-attack was looking increasingly potent when
Aguero dragged a shot off target.

In the 97th-minute, Palacio evaded
the attentions of Germany's defence but his touch over Neuer was far too heavy.

And it was an error that Argentina
would deeply regret, as Gotze found a brilliant finish with seven minutes left that was a fitting way to win the showpiece as a European nation secured a first World Cup win on South American soil.

"G" is the 7th letter of alphabet,
and Germany
starts with "G"
-The name Germany contains 7
letters
-Germany was in Group "G" or
Group "7"
-Germany ended group stage with
7pts
-Germany scored 7 goals in group
stages-4 vs
Portugal, 2 vs Ghana and 1 vs
U.S.A
-Germany scored 7 goals vs Brazil
-And obviously, we are in 7th
month of year
-Gotze scores only goal in the final with 7 minutes to play.