It’s been the strangest transfer window in memory. There have been plenty of signings – most of them for Chelsea – but yet seemingly everyone that clubs actually wanted to sell have remained.
West Ham’s Felipe Anderson has joined Porto on a season-long loan along with Liverpool midfielder Marko Grujic.
Arsenal landed the biggest deal on transfer deadline day after meeting the £45-million release clause in midfielder Thomas Partey’s Atletico Madrid contract, while Manchester United finally brought in some additions with the arrivals of Edison Cavani and Alex Telles.
Arsenal have signed Thomas Partey after Atletico Madrid revealed the Gunners paid the midfielder’s reported £45-million release clause with a little more than half an hour remaining on transfer deadline day.
Edinson Cavani and Alex Telles completed deadline-day moves to Manchester United, who also secured a deal for teenage winger Amad Diallo to join the Premier League club in January.
Manchester United have completed the signing of Brazil defender Alex Telles from Porto on a four-year contract.
The big ‘will they, won’t they’ saga of Arsenal’s summer is set to end today, with Arsenal looking to make a final bid for Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey.
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