A lot of Premier League clubs have a love-hate relationship with the January transfer market.
If conducted correctly, it can fire your club up the table during the second half of the season and provide a vital chance for managers, both old and new, to put their mark on the squad.
Yet if conducted poorly, it can cause things to fall apart. The dressing room atmosphere can collapse and sides can see their star players leave or relegation can beckon.
But who wants to think about that? Instead, here’s every Premier League club’s greatest every January signing.
Arsenal – Nacho Monreal
We’d have selected Martin Keown for Arsenal, but he arrived mid-season before the January transfer window came in.
Then there’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Theo Walcott and Emmanuel Adebayor, who collectively scored hundreds of goals for the Gunners, but have their downsides in different ways.
And much as we have a soft spot for Andrey Arshavin, we can’t help but look past cult hero Nacho Monreal – a bargain at £8.5million on deadline day 2013. The Span international made over 250 appearances, won three FA Cups and never gave less than his all.
READ: Where are they now? Arsenal’s last 22 January signings
Aston Villa – Darren Bent
Bent cost Villa a then-club record £18million to prise him from Sunderland in January 2011.
The club were battling relegation at the time and found themselves 17th with goals struggling to come freely.
Bent came in to save the club from an unthinkable drop to the second tier but he did more than that.
He scored the winner of his debut and went on to score nine in 16 league games, helping Villa finish ninth and comfortably avoid the drop.
Bournemouth – Kieffer Moore
Looking to get back into the Premier League at the second attempt, Bournemouth paid up to £5million for Cardiff and Wales striker Moore last January.
Four goals in four appearances, plus another four this season, suggests he was worth the gamble; a cult hero in the making on the Dorset coast.
Brentford – Sergi Canos
Spaniard Canos signed for Brentford in January 2017 but already knew the club well as he had a loan spell there in 2015.
Since then, he has had to battle for his place in the team on more than one occasion but has always come out on top and became a regular in the Premier League, even scoring the club’s first goal in the division.
For only £2.5million, he was some bargain.
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