This January transfer window may have been one of the quietest we’ve ever witnessed.
With clubs unwilling to stretch themselves due to the pressures of the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules, it was – compared to previous years – rather slow after just £100million spent.
Despite that, several clubs did make some moves in the market with Aston Villa notably sealing a £15million deadline day deal for Middlesbrough’s Morgan Rogers, while West Ham completed a loan deal for Man City’s Kalvin Phillips, Spurs brought in Timo Werner and Radu Dragusin and Fulham loaned Armando Broja.
But who are the biggest winners of the January transfer window?
Mail Sport’s reporters Ian Ladyman and Sami Mokbel have revealed on It’s All Kicking Off the team they think has done the best business.
Mail Sport’s Sami Mokbel and Ian Ladyman have revealed who they think is the biggest winner of this January’s transfer window
Ian Ladyman firstly recapped on the window by revealing some facts and figures. He said on It’s All Kicking Off: ‘Only 17 permanent deals and 13 loans took place in the Premier League, across the whole of January. And only 13 of those 30 deals took place yesterday.
‘Spending of £100m across the window is the lowest in the Premier League since 2012.
‘And the £30m spent yesterday was down on the £275m that was spent on the final day of last year’s window. Although most of that was spent by Chelsea.
‘It’s been the same in the EFL and across Europe. English clubs have still spent more than counterparts in Italy, Spain and Germany. Only the French have spent more.’
He added: ‘I think clubs had front loaded a lot of their transfer business last summer. Financial Fair Play is coming into the equation as well. And the biggest deal of this window actually took place back in early January when Spurs paid £25m for defender Radu Dragusin.
‘So Sami, looking back over the month, winners and losers for you from this window. Who’s had a good window and who’s stunk the place out?’
Mokbel subsequently lumped praise on Daniel Levy, claiming that the Tottenham chairman and Spurs have done the best business in the transfer window.
He said: ‘Yeah, I think, you know, I think Tottenham have had a fantastic window. It’s not often that we can come on these podcasts or on anything really – even with our day jobs on the on the newspaper – and praise Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy.’