
The dramatic relocation of Mathys Tel from Bayern Munich to Tottenham turned out to be the biggest story of Deadline Day when Premier League clubs hurried to complete their business before the closure.
Manchester City added another £ 50 million to their edition with the signing of Nico Gonzalez from Porto, but other clubs, including Arsenal, kept their powder dry, while the only senior signing of Manchester United of the window struggled Patrick Dorgugu.
Tel's U-turn adds Deadline Day drama
It was not exactly Peter Odemwingie in the parking lot on Loftus Road in the Deadline day drama deployment, but Tel's late change of heart over a relocation of Bayern Munich to Tottenham certainly added intrigues in the last hours of the window.
It seemed that the move on Friday was dead when Tel dropped the club after they had concluded a £ 50 million agreement with the German giants. Three days later, however, he was traces bound during a flight to London, chased by a personal pitch of Ange Postecoglou.
The 19-year-old makes the switch to Spurs together with goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky and defender Kevin Danso, and it will be fascinating to see how he only shown his enormous potential at Bayern, who paid £ 23 million to him of Rennes to be signed at the age of 17.
Tel will certainly get more minutes at Spurs, whose injury crisis has left them light in attack and defense, with Dominic Solanke and Brennan Johnson under the offside. Part of the attraction of Tel is that he can play anywhere at the front.
He was interesting for Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, but those clubs, like many others, were quiet on a Gedempte Deadline Day, where the loan moved for Evan Ferguson and Marco Asensio, from Brighton to West Ham and Paris Saint- Germain to Aston Villa were the most striking of the other signing sessions respectively.
Joao Felix van Chelsea was the striking among the editions when the 25-year-old, a £ 46.3 million signing of Atletico Madrid in August, went on his way to AC Milan, again on loan.
Man City is drawn to the need
The extraordinary collapse in the form of Manchester City led to drastic action on the transfer market. A club that tries to finish the January window completely this year as the biggest spenders of the Premier League and signed five senior players for a combined £ 176.1 million.
Abdukodir Khusanov, a signing of £ 33.5 million from the French Zijlens, made an unfavorable start in their 3-1 victory over Chelsea, his mistake, three minutes after his debut, with the side of Enzo Maresca set a goal before he asked In the second half was addicted.
But the £ 59 million Omar Marmoush has already shown flashes of its enormous talent and the hope for the city is that by signing that couple, as well as Vital Reis, Claudio Echeverri and Gonzalez, have strengthened them considerably, both for now and for the future, With Marmoush the oldest of the Kwintet just 25 years old.
The thrashing on Sunday by Arsenal rammed the scale of the work that is still in front of us. The defeat was the toughest of Manchester City in the Premier League since 2017. It is the first time ever that a Pep Guardiola team has admitted four or more goals in one season.
But City cannot be accused of sitting on their hands. Instead, they went to the emergency agreement and started a non-characteristic editions from the middle season intended to change the direction of their season and to restore a positive route.
How it works is still to be seen.
Should Man Utd and Arsenal GOK?
The gloomy season of Manchester United reached a new layer because they were beaten 2-0 by Crystal Palace in Old Trafford in a match in which Kobbie Mainoo played as their striker as Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee stayed on the couch.
If it was intended as a message from Ruben Amorim about how he regards his striking options, then it is certainly based on. But the January window has ended without coming up with attacking reinforcements. In fact, United has fewer options after the loan deviations of Marcus Rashford and Antony on Aston Villa and Real Betis respectively.
Not that Amorim will regret those outputs. The Portuguese seem determined to erase the decks, even if this means that the light on numbers is left in the short term.
The club insists that they use a long -term approach, who would like to avoid reckless or expensive risks, but who will score the goals in the second half of the season? Amad Diallo is their top scorer in the Premier League with six goals, but he ended up at Wing-Back against Crystal Palace. Zirkzee and Hojlund have a lean total of five in 43 performances between them.
The attacking problems of Arsenal look miniscule in comparison, but there are similar questions about the decision not to strengthen their attack in January. A failed bid for Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa showed their intention, but just like Manchester United, they put the search on hold until the summer.
Will they regret it? The targeted form of Ethan Nwaneri offers hope that he could be an internal solution, but with Bukayo Saka still sidelined and Gabriel Jesus for the season, they have left themselves dangerously short at the top of the field.
Window defined by deals that did not happen
Watkins' disputed movement for Arsenal was one of the various deals that did not take place. In reality it was probably a non-starter who gave Aston Villa's intentions to cash in on Jhon Duran, who was subsequently sold to the Saudi Arab club Al Nassr for £ 64 million.
Matheus Cunha was another spoken attacker who probably seemed to be moving when he was criticized by Wolves Boss Vorror Pereira after their defeat against Chelsea. Instead, he signed a new contract and signed another potential movement in the bud in January.
Bryan Mbeumo was another potential mover that did not go anywhere and, together with Yoanne Wissa, stayed in Brentford, while Crystal Palace was firmly held on Marc Guehi, a £ 70 million offer from Spurs and a different story to gain in a January- Transfer window was defined defined by what happened not instead of what did.
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