Summary: Once the World Cup came to a close, the shockwaves on the summer transfer window soon followed as Real Madrid have come out with two prized moves to acquire James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos, perhaps setting off what may be a chain of events that could ripple across Europe as several conditional moves appear certain to unfold. In the first part of the show, football correspondent Graham Ruthven joins from Scotland to help us unpack the events at the Bernabeu and Camp Nou where the big money continues to be spent each summer, amid transformations for both Madrid and Barcelona under first year manager Luis Enrique. We examine some potential moves involving big names and big clubs with spending power and then return to the Premier League for a deeper dive into the early dealings for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United where the questions are only beginning for Louis van Gaal as he assumes the mantle at Old Trafford. In our second segment, David Amoyal of GianlucaDimarzio.com arrives to look at the market from a different perspective from the continent where Serie A clubs and PSG seem to struggle this off-season given the concert of FFP implications and new powers in the league who have their own Champions League and domestic aspirations to consider in the haze of a landscape-altering decision which saw Juventus manager Antonio Conte resign with immediate effect. At the epicenter of the discussion is the changing of the guard at the top of the Serie A food chain and how two Milan giants without UEFA TV money have in many ways affected the market place both in terms of spending and internal efforts to retool and reset their plans going forward. We close with a quick fire round on some of the more pressing transfers that could find resolution later in the summer window, transfers which may not be seen as blockbusters, but surely have impact on their individual clubs.
