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Kamel Ghilas
1 of the duo signings, along with Stephen Hunt signed by Hull City, had arrived days before the new season. Hull City signed Algerian striker Kamel Ghilas from Celta de Vigo at a reported fee of £1.7m. He should be able to boost the amount of goals scored for Hull City after last season’s average of only a goal per game. He was linked to Blackburn as Santa Cruz’s replacement before eventually being hijacked by Hull.

Stephen Hunt
It cost Hull City £3 millions to sign him from Reading. After a few good seasons with Reading, returning to the English Premier League with Hull City is a refreshing change for the winger. He is known for his footwork and creative, along with his work rate as a winger to run across the field with endless stamina. He would probably be developed into a playmaker for the team.

Both of these players will likely be featured in their opening match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Can Hull City displayed a repeat of their last season with tremendous results for the first 10 matches? The pressure falls on the shoulders of both these players now.

The son of former Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel, who had won the Treble with Manchester United in 1999, Kasper Schmeichel joined Nott County, the oldest professional club in the world, on a 1 year loan deal. He is the 2nd goalkeeper to have been loaned out by Manchester City to have earned first team experience after Joe Hart returned from Birmingham City as his loan is over. Both of the goalkeepers are currently 22, and already are top class keepers in the making.

To date, Kasper Schmeichel has made less than 10 starting appearances for Manchester City since he made his debut in Aug 07 against City’s rival Manchester Utd. During his debut, Manchester City won 1-0. Notts County will be the 6th club he plays at after being loaned out to Darlington, Bury, Falkrik, Cardiff City and Coventry City beginning from 4 season ago.

It looks like Sven-Göran Eriksson isn’t joking when he declared that he would lead Notts County to the top of the English league within 5 years. Notts County has played 2 games so far, both ending with clean sheets and having a total of 9 goals scored.

Having secured the talents of  goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, Notts County’s path to the English League 1 has been made much easier this season.

The next big player coming out from Chelsea Youth Academy after John Terry? Last season, he saw himself feature in 2 of Chelsea matches toward the end of the season to see himself voted as “Chelsea Young Player of the Year” award. He was previously loan out to Queen Park Ranger and Wolves before. With only 3 month he spend with Wolves last season, he already feature in 10 matches for them and make some impact. That 1 of the reason why Wolves was so keen in loaning him again for their Premier League Survival season. Without much chance of playing in Chelsea, with John Terry, Alex, Carvalho being priority in the lineup before, so he took up the chance of joining Wolves to play regularly in search of chance of getting call up by England for their World Cup 2010 campaign and improving himself with regular football.

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