A typically busy transfer deadline day was headlined by Manchester City’s British transfer record-equalling £125m signing of Enzo Fernandez from Chelsea, whose move for Monaco midfielder Lamine Camara sensationally fell through at the last minute.
Top-flight clubs in England took their spending comfortably past the £3bn mark again this summer, with City joining Tottenham as big spenders who splashed £300m apiece. In City’s case, another £65m was spent on deadline day to secure the services of Iliman Ndiaye from Everton. Meanwhile, having elected not to stop the sale of Fernandez despite missing out on a replacement for the Argentine, Chelsea smashed the Premier League record for sales in a single window.
Elsewhere this summer, Liverpool went big on Bradley Barcola, Manchester United finally landed Carlos Baleba as part of their midfield refresh and Arsenal brought in Ezri Konsa from a thoroughly dismantled Aston Villa, who joined multiple Premier League clubs in adding to their squad on deadline day. The final hours of the window brought a flurry of movement, with several deal sheets submitted across England as teams sought to get late deals over the line before the night was out.
Relive all of the updates from the concluding day of an eye-wateringly complex transfer window in The i Paper’s live blog below.
