Racing swoop for Zigic

Racing Santander are closing in on a deal with Crvena Zvezda for Serbian striker Nikola Zigic.

The 25-year-old giant has been linked with a string of European clubs this year including Premiership sides Arsenal, Portsmouth and West Ham United and Dutch giants Feyenoord.

Zigic now looks set sign to the Estadio El Sardinero for the next four seasons though, and Santander coach Miguel Angel Portugal has welcomed the move for the 6ft 8in international.

"We need a striker with those characteristics to pose problems to rivals," Portugal enthused.

Racing opened up their Liga season with a 1-0 home defeat to Atletico Madrid and will be hoping to get the player bedded in to help in their next Liga outing at Getafe on September 10.



What the hell is going on? They looked thoroughly unambitious and relegation candidates up until a week ago... now they're going to have a strike force of Sobis and Zigic!

Sobis signed for Betis.

incredible they´d spent zilch til that point of sobis

Didnt Arsenal sign Zigic ? or am i thinking or someone else ...

Nope. Arsenal were one of several teams looking at him. Sobis went to Racing, TM.

Obispo wrote:Nope. Arsenal were one of several teams looking at him. Sobis went to Racing, TM.

Sobis is about to sign for Betis mate. They swooped in last minute and stole him off Racing.

La Saeta Rubia wrote:

Obispo wrote:Nope. Arsenal were one of several teams looking at him. Sobis went to Racing, TM.

Sobis is about to sign for Betis mate. They swooped in last minute and stole him off Racing.

Ugh. This is what you get when you rely on Sky for Spanish news Has anyone signed him yet?

Obispo wrote:Ugh. This is what you get when you rely on Sky for Spanish news Has anyone signed him yet?

Betis have just announced they signed Sobis & Odonkor on their web site.

http://www.realbetisbalompie.es/