Schalke revealed Embolo's signing to thousands of fans at its annual members' meeting, with a video message suggesting the club beat interest from other European sides including Barcelona, Manchester United and Arsenal.
As reported by the Guardian, United will make Shaw the highest-paid teenager in domestic football history by offering him a £100,000 a-week salary over five years, with the just deposed champions set to beat interest from Chelsea and Manchester City for the player's signature.
McClaren also beat off interest from elite clubs in Serie A and the Premier League to sign Danish defender Simon Kjaer from Palermo.
On Sunday Dave Brailsford, the team principal, who beat off interest from other teams last summer to sign the sprinter, appeared to accept as much.
Despite Shaw's relative inexperience, and United extending Patrice Evra's contract for a further 12 months in May, the club paid a record fee for a British teenager to beat off interest from Chelsea and several other suitors.
On the pitch Hoskins is a striker who steals sharply into smart positions, but off it poor relationships with a succession of Terriers managers stalled his development until Aidy Boothroyd beat off interest from West Bromwich, Celtic, Everton, Reading, Wolves, Ipswich and Nottingham Forest to take him to the then Premier League club Watford in a £1.2m deal in 2007.
Derby County boss Nigel Clough said Addison was surplus to requirements and Bournemouth beat off interest from Championship clubs for the 23-year-old.
However, Amorebieta's arrival is arguably the most impressive addition so far as they beat off reported interest from Arsenal, Everton and Zenit St Petersburg.
Now …" In the Mail, Phil Brown thinks it's a good idea to sign Sol Campbell in January, but only if he can "beat off" some invented "interest" from Genoa, Sampdoria, someone in the Middle East, the Brisbane Flip-Flops and a crushing sense of overwhelming and deathly futility.
Instead, however, they are beating a dead horse that has no interest from the electorate and little connection with the real world.
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