Tweets of the week: Man U transfer fever, Wimbledon 2015

Sport360 staff 13:48 17/07/2015
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  • A look back on the best tweets from the sporting week.

    Sport360 picks out the highlights from the sporting Twittersphere with Bastian Schweinsteiger, Morgan Schneiderlin, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Carl Froch all featuring.

    It had been a fairly quiet start to the summer for Manchester United, with the Red Devils already attracting criticism for a perceived lack of transfer activity following the capture of Memphis Depay before the end of the Premier League season. Then Louis van Gaal and Ed Woodward got green fever, splurging £43m (Dh244m) on three players in as many days. Italy fullback Matteo Darmian started it, Bastian Schweinsteiger followed and so too did Morgan Schneiderlin. Twitter went into meltdown.

    — Basti Schweinsteiger (@BSchweinsteiger) July 12, 2015

    Nothing could stand in the way of glory for the top male and female tennis players in the world as the curtain came down on Wimbledon 2015, with Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams crowned champions. Djokovic overcame Roger Federer, who had briefly threatened to make it a classic, but he was ultimately denied the chance for a record eighth men’s title. Serena won her sixth All England Club title, moving to within one of Steffi Graf’s open era record of 22. There was plenty of praise for both.

    Carl Froch rang the bell on his boxing career at the age of 38. The Cobra won the WBC super middleweight title twice, as well as the WBA and IBF titles once each, while in his early career he held the British, Commonwealth and English titles at super middleweight. The boxing world paid tribute.

    Iker Casillas thanks his fans after bidding an emotional farewell to Real Madrid, Harry Redknapp has a pop at new Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri, while Jordan Spieth wins the John Deere Classic to join Tiger Woods as the only golfers this century to have won four or more times before the British Open in a single season.

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