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Barcelona purchased Emre Demir from Turkey's Yukatel Kayserispor for €2 million ($2.34 million) plus bonuses, the Catalan club said in a statement on Sept. 23. 

The 17-year-old will stay at the club until 2027, and his release fee has been set at €400 million ($470 million), according to the press release.

Galatasaray beat Lazio 1-0 in the UEFA Europa League Group E match on Sept. 16. 

Lazio's Albanian goalie Thomas Strakosha scored an own goal in the 67th minute at Ali Sami Yen Sports Complex (Turk Telekom Stadium), Istanbul.

Galatasaray took the top spot with three points, while Marseille placed 2nd with one point in Group E.

Two Istanbul rivals start their Europa League campaigns on Sept. 16 when Galatasaray hosts Italy's Lazio in a Group E match and Fenerbahçe visits Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt in Group D.

Skopje, Sept 8 /Agerpres/ - Romania's national football team coach Mirel Radoi has made one change for Wednesday's match with Northern Macedonia's Group J in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers at the Todor Proeski Arena in Skopje, compared to the match with Iceland and seven compared to the match versus Liechtenstein.

UEFA is ready to decide a limited number of fans to travel

It was made for big headlines, but in the end it was still a relatively quiet evening when the European transfer window in football was closed the night before Wednesday. Antoine Griezmann's loan move from Barcelona back to Atletico Madrid was the last night's biggest news.

Moldova's Football Federation told BIRN on Friday that it was not aware of the situation with the Kosovar player for Croatian Dinamo Zagreb whose request for a Moldovan visa has been rejected.

"I don't know anything about any ban. It is the first time I hear about it. No one from Dinamo Zagreb contacted us in this regard," an official from the Moldovan Football Federation said.

For more than two decades, 21 years to be more precise, the Argentinian was the alpha and omega of the Catalan club.

The day has come and after the UEFA draw in Nyon, Zvezda and Dinamo will face each other in the playoffs for the elite stage of the competition provided that both teams first eliminate Sheriff, that is the Warsaw Legion.

Razgrad – Slovenian football champions Mura were knocked out of further qualifying for the UEFA Champions League after losing 1:3 to Bulgaria’s Ludogorets in the away leg of the 2nd round on Wednesday.