Championship clubs get 130 new players

Last updated : 09 August 2008 By Tony Scholes
Remco van der Schaaf
Remco van der Schaaf - one of six new signings at Burnley
I started watching Burnley in 1960 and had to wait until the summer of 1967 to witness an incoming transfer, and then it was a young player coming in from a lower division club when Frank Casper signed from Rotherham.

Players move around more now and clubs are forever looking to strengthen their squads and no fewer than 130 signings, permanent and loan, have been made by the 24 clubs in our league over the summer.

That averages out at between five and six players each and we are just about the average with six new players in Martin Paterson, Kevin McDonald, Christian Kalvenes, Diego Penny, Remco van der Schaaf and Chris Eagles.

Of those six signings, four of them have come from clubs outside of England and that's a theme right across the division with 33 of those signings having come from outside of the country.

All these signings will work for some clubs, and not others. With another 22 days before the transfer window closes there will surely be more signings.

Here's a list of those players who have joined Championship clubs this summer. both permanent and on loan.

Barnsley

Luke Steele from West Brom
Iain Hume from Leicester
Mounir El Haimour from NE Xamax
Hugo Roberto Colace from Newell's Old Boys
Darren Moore from Derby

Maceo Rigters from Blackburn (loan)

Birmingham

Lee Carsley from Everton
Kevin Phillips from West Brom
Marcus Bent from Charlton

Kemy Agustien from AZ Alkmaar (loan)
Quincy Owusu-Abeyie from Spartak Moskow

Blackpool

Marlon Broomes from Stoke
Matthew Gilks from Norwich
Alex Baptiste from Mansfield
Joe Martin from Tottenham
Jermaine Wright from Southampton
Daniel Nardiello from QPR
Rob Edwards from Wolves
David Vaughan from Real Sociadad

Steven Kabba from Watford (loan)
Adam Hammill from Liverpool (loan)
Zesh Rehman from QPR (loan)
Mo Camara from Derby (loan)

Bristol City

Gavin Williams from Ipswich
Nicky Maynard from Crewe

Burnley

Martin Paterson from Scunthorpe
Kevin McDonald from Dundee
Christian Kalvenes from Dundee United
Diego Penny from Coronel Bolognesi
Remco van der Schaaf from Vitesse Arnhem
Chris Eagles from Manchester United

Cardiff

Darren Dennehy from Everton
Ross McCormack from Motherwell
Mark Kennedy from Crystal Palace
Jay Bothroyd from Wolves

Charlton

Mark Hudson from Crystal Palace
Stuart Fleetwood from Forest Green Rovers

Coventry

Guillaume Beuzelin from Hibs
Aron Einar Gunnarsson from AZ Alkmaar
Keiren Westwood from Carlisle
Freddy Eastwood from Wolves
Clinton Morrison from Crystal Palace
Stephen Wright from Sunderland

Crystal Palace

Patrick McCarthy from Charlton
Nick Carle from Bristol City
Johannes Ertl from Austria Wien
Darryl Flahavan from Southend
Calvin Andrew from Luton
Jose Fonte from Benfica
Simon Thomas from Boreham Wood

Derby

Ruben Zadkovich - Unattached
Paul Connolly from Plymouth
Jordan Stewart from Watford
Paul Green from Doncaster
Kris Commons from Nottingham Forest
Steve Davies from Tranmere
Martin Albrechtsen from West Brom
Liam Dickinson from Stockport
Rob Hulse from Sheffield United

Nathan Ellington from Watford (loan)
Przemyslaw Kazmierczak from Porto (loan)

Doncaster

John Spicer from Burnley
Darren Byfield from Bristol City
Tomi Ameobi from Leeds
Jos Van Nieuwstadt - Unattached
Matthew Mills from Manchester City
James Chambers from Leicester

Ipswich

Pim Balkestein from Heerenveen
Gareth McAuley from Leicester
Kevin Lisbie from Colchester
Richard Wright from West Ham

Norwich

Sammy Clingan from Nottingham Forest
Wes Hoolihan from Blackpool
Dejan Stefanovic from Fulham
David Bell from Luton
Stuart Nelson from Leyton Orient

Ryan Bertrand from Chelsea (loan)
Elliot Omozusi from Fulham (loan)
Arturo Lupoli from Fiorentina (loan)
John Kennedy from Celtic (loan)
Omar Alieu Koroma from Portsmouth (loan)
Troy Achibald-Henville from Tottenham (Loan)

Nottingham Forest

Robert Earnshaw from Derby
Guy Moussi from Angers
Andrew Cole from RK Sunderland
Joe Garner from Carlisle

Paul Anderson from Liverpool (loan)

Plymouth

Jason Puncheon from Barnet
Karl Duguid from Colchester
David McNamee from Coventry
Yala Bolasi from Floriana, Malta
Graham Stack from Reading
Simon Walton from QPR

Craig Cathcart from Manchester United (loan)

Preston

Barry Nicholson from Aberdeen

Ross Wallace from RK Sunderland (Loan)

QPR

Peter Ramage from Newcastle
Radek Cerny from Slavia Prague
Mattio Alberti from Chievo Verona
Kaspars Gorkss from Blackpool

Emmanuel Jorge Ledesma from Genoa (loan)
Samuel Di Carmine from Fiorentina (loan)
Lee Cook from Fulham (loan)
Daniel Parejo from Real Madrid (loan)

Reading

Noel Hunt from Dundee United

Sheffield United

Sun Jihai from Manchester City
Darius Henderson from Watford
Justin Haber from Haidari
David Cotterill from Wigan

Matthew Spring from Luton (loan)
Greg Halford from RK Sunderland (loan)

Sheffield Wednesday

James O'Connor from Burnley

Jimmy Smith from Chelsea (loan)

Southampton

Chris Perry from Luton
Lee Holmes from Derby
Paul Wotton from Plymouth
Morgan Schneiderlin from Strasbourg
Tommy Forecast from Tottenham

Swansea

Ashley Williams from Stockport
Gorka Pintando from Granada
Mark Gower from Southend
Federico Bessone from Espanyol B
Albert Serran from Espanyol B
Stefan Morrison from West Brom

Jordi Gomez from Espanyol (loan)
Febian Brandy from Manchester United (loan)

Watford

Jon Harley from Burnley

Wolves

Sam Vokes from Bournemouth
Richard Stearman from Leicester
David Jones from Derby
Chris Iwelumo from Charlton