Diego seals Feyenoord move

Young Argentine striker Diego has ended his sorry stay in Bradford by signing a cut price deal to move to Rotterdam. The Bradford City manager is said to have given the player his last chance to impress during the pre-season friendly tournament in New Zealand but despite City scoring a dozen goals in four games, Diego is yet to find the net.

Pre-Season Antics Explained At Bantams

Bradford City ended a hectic pre-season schedule with the announcements of a number of transfers.
Leaving the club are Rufus Brevett, Craig Bentham, Steven Schumacher and Luke Richardson. Being released are Clint Davies, Spencer Prior, Morten Wieghorst, Vic Pericard, Jose Capdevila, Ceri Hughes, Darren Hughes, Liam Roche and Andy Jordan.
Arriving at the club will be a number of players, long term target Steve Burton arrives from Aberdeen along with Paddy McGuire, Pa Modou Kah finally makes his return to Bradford from his unhappy spell at Man City and looks to be set for a first team spot, while Michael Proctor makes a surprise return to the club from Fulham. Gary Naysmith, Jon Dahl Tomasson, Don Bombardini and Brian McBride all make the short trip accross the pennines from Everton, John Cook is coming up from Ipswich and Alex looks set for a move from Euro giants Barcalona. The big summer signing though is young defender Matt Killgallon from yorkshire rivals Leeds.
Finally three youth players have been given one year pro contracts and hope to prove their worth to the club: goalkeeper Nathan Thackery, defender Gareth Mitchell and midfielder Simon Ainge.
The summer break also saw the Diego saga rear it's ugly head with a proposed move to Feyenoord falling through after Diego pleaded for one last chance to impress the club. Hatem Ben Arfa was also subject to transfer speculation but it was also decided it was in the best interests of the club to keep the young attacking midfielder.

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Birch U-Turns On Diego

Bradford City today sealed the last of the seasons major transfers with news that Diego is finally leaving the club, allbeit initially on loan with Louis Saha coming in on loan from Feyenoord. Diego follows Hatem Ben Arfa out of the revolving door at Valley Parade as manager Birch finally agreed terms with Feyenoord and Auxerre. Bradford also made a splash signing of Nico Vaesen from newly promoted former conference team Birmingham City. The blues were in need of some midfield steel and Bradford provided.
Manager Matt Birch now expects there to be little transfer activity till the close season with perhaps the only moves being a few small cash transfers in later months. Birch "Once all the protracted transfers have gone through I think we'll have a team capable of pushing for promotion. What we will lack in depth we'll make up on in the power of the first eleven and if we can keep these lads available then we have a good chance of getting a top two finish."