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Football quiz: unlikely transfer deals

2017
‘Really? Are you sure?’ Photograph: Ollie Upton/Sky Sports
  1. Which Scottish club did Fabrizio Ravanelli join in 2003?

    1. Dundee

    2. Rangers

    3. Celtic

    4. Dundee United

  2. After playing more than 400 games in the Premier League, Nicky Butt left England in 2010 for which club?

    1. Chicago Fire

    2. Celtic

    3. South China

    4. Brondby

  3. Edgar Davids has played for three English clubs: Crystal Palace, Barnet and which other side?

    1. Birmingham City

    2. Tottenham Hotspur

    3. Chelsea

    4. Bolton Wanderers

  4. Which club did Pep Guardiola sign for when he left Barcelona in 2001?

    1. Roma

    2. Brescia

    3. Al-Ahli

    4. New York Cosmos

  5. Who left Paris Saint-Germain for Bolton Wanderers in 2002?

    1. Ivan Campo

    2. Jay-Jay Okocha

    3. Youri Djorkaeff

    4. Fernando Hierro

  6. Which club did Kyle Lafferty join when he left Rangers in 2012?

    1. Palermo

    2. Catania

    3. Milan

    4. Sion

  7. Who moved from Lazio to Chelsea in 1996?

    1. Ruud Gullit

    2. Gianfranco Zola

    3. Roberto Di Matteo

    4. Gianluca Vialli

  8. Real Madrid signed three players from Premier League clubs in 2005: Michael Owen, Jonathan Woodgate and who else?

    1. Fernando Morientes

    2. Thomas Gravesen

    3. David Beckham

    4. Davor Suker

  9. Which club spent £84m to sign Brazilian duo Oscar and Hulk?

    1. Guangzhou Evergrande

    2. Shanghai SIPG

    3. Jiangsu Suning

    4. Beijing Guoan

  10. Allan Simonsen – who had won the won the Ballon d'Or in 1977 – joined second division Charlton in 1982 from which club?

    1. Borussia Monchengladbach

    2. Real Madrid

    3. Borussia Dortmund

    4. Barcelona

  11. Who did newly promoted Crystal Palace buy for £1.6m in 1997?

    1. Tomas Brolin

    2. Attilio Lombardo

    3. Ashley Cole

    4. Fan Zhiyi

Solutions

1:A - He only scored for them in one match, when he came on as a substitute against Clyde in the League Cup and hit a hat-trick., 2:C - Butt scored a free-kick and missed a penalty on his debut., 3:B - He also managed Barnet., 4:B - Guardiola had two stints at Brescia in his playing career., 5:B - Okocha spent four years in Bolton before moving on to Qatar in 2006., 6:D - Lafferty spent a season with Sion, in Switzerland, before moving on to Palermo, where he scored 11 goals in 34 matches, helped the club earn promotion to Serie A as champions and won the Fans' Player of the Season award., 7:C - Di Matteo played for five clubs in his career: Schaffhausen, Zürich and Aarau in Switzerland (where he was born), Lazio and Chelsea., 8:B - Gravesen spent 18 months in Spain before moving on to Celtic., 9:B - Their wages will reportedly cost the club £720,000 a week., 10:D - He reportedly rejected offers from Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur to sign for Charlton., 11:B - The club finished bottom of the Premier League in 1997-98, with Lombardo taking over as caretaker player-manager midway through the season.

Scores

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