Now when the madness of the deadline day is past us, we look at the winners and losers from this years transfer market.
Winners
1. Manchester United
This is Mourinho's second season at United, the season when the magic happens. He is known to win the league in his second season at his new club and would like to do the same with United. Having spent £146m on a defender, defensive midfielder, and a striker and having resigned Ibrahimovich, Mourinho would be having a hard time hiding that patented smirk while watching yesterday's mayhem. Title favorites or not manchester united have assembled a good side capable of challenging on all fronts.
2. West Brom
Backed up by Chinese owners Tony Pulis didn't have a great start to the transfer window when Darren Fletcher left the club. He was later replaced by Gareth Barry who cost just £1m. The future however still looked bleak after reports of Jonny Evans wanting to leave the club. The baseball capped man, however, managed to keep hold of Evans along with adding Oliver Burke and Ahmed Hagazy to the team. All of it didn't look triumphant until he signed midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak from PSG. He is a class player and would certainly take the club to a top ten spot.
3. Liverpool
Liverpool biggest transfer target was Virgil Van Dijk and understandably so. They have however made a mess of the situation by talking directly to the player and just marginally avoiding a transfer ban for the season. It is up front where Liverpool have excelled in the transfer window. They got Salah for £34 million which by today's standards looks like a bargain for a player of his quality. Apart from that Oxlade Chamberlain has also arrived at the Anfield after flirting with Chelsea for a while. Andrew Robertson from Hull City looks like a good signing as well and another Chelsea player Dominic Solanki was signed for free in this mad window. Their biggest transfer, however, is Naby Keita a powerful and pacy midfielder who was signed for a club record £55 million. Although he will arrive on July 1, 2018, I can imagine Liverpool on the counter from today itself and as a supporter of a rival team, I'm scared!
Losers
1. Arsenal
In this frenzied transfer window when clubs spent money beyond logic, Arsenal made a profit of £32 Million. To put that into perspective, even the new entrants Huddersfield and Brighton spent £36 million and £34 million respectively. And that tells you all about Arsenal board in its entirety! Their reluctance to spend money has cost them their top 4 spots again this year. It's February all over again and the fans are starting to lose whatever hope they had left for their beloved club.
2. Arsenal
I always thought a manager of Wenger's experience and quality would have a plan B every moment of his managerial career but I was proven wrong the moment Arsenal launched beyond "last-minute" pursuit of Lemar just to add him into his "almost signed" team. This move showed that Arsene Wenger had indeed lost touch with reality as Arsenal fans feared. There was in no way the transfer was possible having made the bid that late at the window.
Arsenal also managed to f**k up with their best player Alexis Sanchez. Although I'm sick and tired of players crying for a move and going AWOL while being in the middle of their contact (I'm looking at your Coutinho!), Sanchez should have been allowed to leave if making profit is what the club is after since he will leave for nothing in the next transfer window. It doesn't make any sense what the club is doing at the moment. The whole situation has become so ugly that for the first time in my life I couldn't make fun of an Arsenal fan as I felt sad for them. It's not funny anymore!
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Disagree. If you look at the transfer window in isolation and leave the defeat to Liverpool out of it then Arsenal actually didn't have such a bad window.
Not the actual transfer window maybe but Arsenal as a professional football club, did everything else wrong in that span of time.
I think our troubles started way before the transfer window. LOL
I think Swansea had a good window as well.
Yes, signing Renato Sanchez from Bayern Munich says it all!