🗞️Zubimendi, Joan García, Imanol: transfer market tops headlines
It's transfer time, the body knows it and the covers of the Spanish sports press also do this Tuesday.
Zubimendi and Real Madrid, Joan García and Luis Díaz to Barça, Foulquier, Imanol, Cherki... are the protagonists today.
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