The January transfer deadline has come and gone, and while the summer is reserved for the biggest moves—Kylian Mbappé will be out of contract and is expected to join Real Madrid, while Erling Haaland and Paul Pogba are among the other big names who could change clubs—there was still important business to be done before the winter window shut.
It was an active month of player movement across the board, and the action picked up over the course of the last week. Dušan Vlahović's move to Juventus from Fiorentina, confirmed last Friday, was the most expensive transfer of the winter, while Luis Díaz's transfer to Liverpool and Bruno Guimarães's departure from Lyon to Newcastle on Sunday are other notable, costly moves. Ferran Torres's earlier transfer to Barcelona from Man City also ranks among the most prominent moves, while noteworthy loans (Adama Traoré from Wolves to Barcelona; Robin Gosens from Atalanta to Inter; Anthony Martial from Manchester United to Sevilla), accounted for a number of key moves as well.
Newcastle was unsurprisingly among the busiest Premier League clubs. The Magpies, in their first transfer window after coming under affluent Saudi ownership, spent over $100 million on Guimarães, Chris Wood and Kieran Trippier, while Aston Villa was also active in bringing in Philippe Coutinho on loan, while also adding defenders Lucas Digne and Calum Chambers as part of its first spree under Steven Gerrard.
