Transfer window verdict: how every Premier League club fared
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EAKey ins: Luka Vuskovic (Tottenham, £46m), Zadok Yohanna (AIK, £21.5m), Chema Andrés (Stuttgart, £18.9m), Pascal Struijk (Leeds, £18m), Jaouen Hadjam (Young Boys, £11.1m), Costinha (Olympiakos, £11m), Michael Svoboda (Venezia, £4.3m), Promise David (Union St-Gilloise, loan)Key outs: Carlos Baleba (Manchester United, £70m), Jan Paul van Hecke (Tottenham, £52m), Carl Rushworth (Coventry, £22.5m), Diego Coppola (Paris FC, £15.3m), Danny Welbeck (Chelsea, £5m), Joël Veltman (West Ham, free), James Milner (retired), Solly March (released)ChelseaXabi Alonso’s appointment as manager was the biggest signing of the summer. JSKey ins: Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa, £117m), Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace, £52m), Marco Palestra (Atalanta, £47m), Geovany Quenda (Sporting, £40m), Valentín Barco (Strasbourg, £34m), Emmanuel Emegha (Strasbourg, £21.6m), Pep Chavarría (Rayo Vallecano, £16.3m), Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa, £7.5m), Danny Welbeck (Brighton, £5m), Jordan Henderson (Brentford, free)Key outs: Enzo Fernández (Manchester City, £125m), Marc Cucurella (Real Madrid, £52m), Andrey Santos (Manchester United, £50m), Nicolas Jackson (Aston Villa, £47.5m), Liam Delap (Nottingham Forest, £45m), Trevoh Chalobah (Como 1907, £25.7m), Tyrique George (Everton, £18m), Marc Guiu (RB Leipzig, £14.5m), Tosin Adarabioyo (Tottenham, £7m), Axel Disasi (Crystal Palace, loan), Alejandro Garnacho (Aston Villa, loan), Benoît Badiashile (Napoli, loan), Robert Sánchez (Como, loan), Mykhailo Mudryk (Tottenham, loan)Morgan Rogers has started well since his £117m signing from Aston Villa.
EAKey ins: Anan Khalaili (Union St-Gilloise, £21m), Quinten Timber (Marseille, £15m), Zavier Gozo (Real Salt Lake, £11m), Axel Disasi (Chelsea, loan), Evann Guessand (Aston Villa, loan), Honest Ahanor (Atalanta, loan), Darío Osorio (Midtjylland, loan), Dwight McNeil (Everton, swap), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal, free), Óscar Mingueza (Celta Vigo, free), Ben Chilwell (Strasbourg, undisclosed fee)Key outs: Maxence Lacroix (Chelsea, £52m), Daniel Muñoz (Nottingham Forest, £22m), Brennan Johnson (Everton, swap), Borna Sosa (Cologne, loan)EvertonIt was a window that revealed the extent of The Friedkin Group’s ambitions, the strength of the club’s finances after the move to a new stadium, the state of the relationship between the manager and chief executive and the expertise of the senior leadership team; and none of it was positive. LTKey ins: James Trafford (Manchester City, £40.5m), Tarik Muharemovic (Sassuolo, £34.1m), Nico Elvedi (Borussia Mönchengladbach, £6.8m), Michael Zetterer (Eintracht Frankfurt, £4.3m), Jean-Mattéo Bahoya (Eintracht Frankfurt, loan), Melvin Bard (Nice, loan), Harry Wilson (Fulham, free)Key outs: Pascal Struijk (Brighton, £18m), Joe Gelhardt (Hull, £6.5m), Lucas Perri (Torino, loan), Sebastiaan Bournauw (Hamburg, loan), Joël Piroe (West Ham, loan), Illan Meslier (Arsenal, free)LiverpoolThe final window of Richard Hughes’s spell as sporting director raised more questions over Liverpool’s direction under Fenway Sports Group, owners soon to be enriched by a £2bn investment from 1892 Holdings.
Photograph: Liverpool FC/Getty ImagesManchester CityWith Enzo Fernández’s deadline day signing for a British record-equalling £125m, Enzo Maresca can have zero complaints about a first window as Manchester City’s head coach. Will UnwinKey ins: Liam Delap (Chelsea, £45m), Ousmane Diomande (Sporting, £34.2m), Daniel Muñoz (Crystal Palace, £22m), Steven Benda (Fulham, free), Xaver Schlager (RB Leipzig, free)Key outs: Elliot Anderson (Manchester City, £116m), Taiwo Awoniyi (Coventry City, £9m), Omari Hutchinson (Milan, loan), Stefan Ortega (Olympiakos, free), Jota Silva (Olympiakos, loan), Morato (West Ham, loan)SunderlandAfter last summer’s 14 new faces this had been a bit of a conservative, almost slightly underwhelming, window.