Liverpool Agree £7.6m Deal to Sign Iago Aspas From Celta Vigo: Nightly Soccer Report

Liverpool have finally sealed a deal for highly-rated Spanish striker Iago Aspas from Celta Vigo.

When Aspas heard that Liverpool were interested in signing him, the 25-year-old passed on an opportunity to sign with Swansea.

Here’s a highlight reel of Aspas:

Here are tonight’s world soccer news headlines:

Premier League

• Liverpool agree £7.6m deal to sign Iago Aspas from Celta Vigo — The Guardian
• Aston Villa confirm signing Danish defender Jores Okore and Dutch midfielder Leandro Bacuna — Sky Sports
• Arsenal and Liverpool told it will take £9m to prise Simon Mignolet from Sunderland — Independent
• Manchester City youngster Abdul Razak sent home by Ivory Coast for fighting — The Mail
• Sir Alex Ferguson goes on boat trip around his beloved Scotland — The Mail
• Manchester City face battle for Spain starlet Isco as Real Madrid enter talks with his agent — Mirror
• Brendan Rodgers tells 9-year-old interviewer that Suarez is Liverpool’s ‘naughtiest’ player — Dirty Tackle
• Papiss Demba Cisse racially abused by ‘English Defence League’ — Telegraph
• How Manchester City can save £3.2m by delaying Manuel Pellegrini’s appointment — Mirror
• Free agent Maynor Figueroa to sign for Hull City — The Mail
• Phil Neville: Steve McClaren one of the best coaches I’ve worked for — Telegraph
• Reading in talks over move for former Everton bad boy Royston Drenthe — The Mail
• Stephen Ireland told he can leave Aston Villa by manager Paul Lambert — Telegraph

International soccer

• Confederations Cup 2013: Nigeria settle bonus payments dispute — BBC Sport
• Russia will spend more than $20 billion staging the 2018 FIFA World Cup — World Football Insider

La Liga

• Cristiano Ronaldo hints that he wants to move from Real Madrid — Telegraph
• Former FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta defends Lionel Messi — The Guardian

Ukrainian soccer league

• Shakhtar replace Fernandinho with Fernando — UEFA.com

Women’s soccer

• NWSL, FOX Sports announce TV deal — FOX Soccer

Scottish Premier League

• Hearts put entire squad up for sale — The Telegraph

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