Man Utd and Liverpool among late movers on Deadline Day as Arsenal offload fringe players; Forest sign seven on final day of window; Moises Caicedo and Declan Rice among most expensive players to move during 2023 summer transfer window as Chelsea lead Premier League spending
It was another busy Transfer Deadline Day as Premier League clubs worked hard to get new signings in ahead of the 11pm deadline.
As the window slammed shut, it was calculated that Premier League clubs splashed a record-breaking £2.44bn on new signings during the window - a new high. Clubs also generated a record-breaking £1.36bn from player sales.
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In total, Chelsea spent a staggering £434.5m on recruits this summer - the most spent by any club during a transfer window in Premier League history.
Manchester United were among the busiest clubs on Deadline Day, capturing Sofyan Ambrabat on loan from Fiorentina, signing Turkey goalkeeper Altay Bayindir from Fenerbahce, completing a loan move for Spurs defender Sergio Reguilon and re-signing free agent Jonny Evans on a short-term deal as defensive cover.
Premier League champions Manchester City announced a £53m move for Wolves' midfielder Matheus Nunes, who signed a five-year deal at City, with the fee received a club-record sale for Wolves. Joao Cancelo was one out of the door for City with Barcelona completing a loan move for the full-back.
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Brighton pulled off something of a Deadline Day coup with the signing of Spain forward Ansu Fati on a season-long loan from Barcelona.
Liverpool's newest-signing Ryan Gravenberch said he has joined one of the biggest clubs in the world after joining for £34.2m from Bayern Munich. He'll be playing alongside Mohamed Salah, for now anyway, as Liverpool rejected a £150m bid from Al Ittihad - but the Saudi Arabian side are not giving up their pursuit. Saudi Pro League clubs can make signings for almost another week with their transfer window closing on September 7.
Melissa Reddy says Mohamed Salah could be better paid than both Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar were he to move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad.
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Chelsea continued their recruitment drive with the £42.5m signing of forward Cole Palmer on a seven-year contract from Man City. The 21-year-old's arrival was the 12th new recruit at Stamford Bridge this summer and has taken the club's spending under Todd Boehly's ownership group past £1bn in three transfer windows.
Tottenham got their man in the end as Nottingham Forest simply couldn't say no to a £47.5m bid for their star man Brennan Johnson. Forest, who signed seven players on the final day of the window, reinvested that money by signing midfielder Ibrahim Sangare for £30m from PSV Eindhoven before also adding former Liverpool forward Divock Origi on loan from AC Milan and Andrew Omobamidele from Norwich.
Arsenal did not make any signings on Deadline Day, however they did let go of three players with Rob Holding, Nuno Tavares and Albert Sambi Lokonga all departing the club.
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The 2023 summer transfer window will be remembered as the moment Saudi Pro League clubs entered - and transformed - the market.
Huge wages on offer from government-backed clubs attracted world stars such as Neymar, Sadio Mane and Ballon d'Or holder Karim Benzema to a league previously way off the radar for European football's top players.
Ambitious moves for Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe may not have come off but the continued interest in a deal to prise Salah out of Liverpool demonstrates the determination and scale Saudi clubs are operating with. Expect that pursuit to keep on running, with the Saudi window not closing until September 7.
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They have already attracted two Reds, with Liverpool earning over £50m for Fabinho and captain Jordan Henderson. The latter's switch was a source of huge controversy, given his past support for the LGBTQ+ community and the human rights record of the country he now plays in.
Roberto Firmino, N'Golo Kante, Allan Saint-Maximin, Riyad Mahrez, Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, Aleksandr Mitrovic and Aymeric Laporte are other Premier League players to have made the Saudi switch - and they won't be the last.
But Premier League clubs can hardly criticise the vast sums being spent by Saudi sides considering the figures splashed on these shores.
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With treble winners Manchester City getting even stronger thanks to the arrivals of Josko Gvardiol (£77.6m), Jeremy Doku (£55.5m), Matheus Nunes (£53m) and Mateo Kovacic (£30m) their rivals have pushed their limits to try to close the gap.
Arsenal broke the British transfer record to sign Declan Rice from West Ham for £105m - and Chelsea soon topped the highest fee paid between two Premier League clubs by sending £115m to Brighton for Moises Caicedo. The value of a defensive midfielder has never been so high.
However, while Rice's acquisition was part of Arsenal's aim to upgrade their title challenge with targeted transfers - Kai Havertz (£65m) and Jurrien Timber (£38m) were added too - Caicedo was just one of many new arrivals at free-spending Chelsea.
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The west Londoners have now spent over £1bn since Todd Boehly's tenure began last summer, with Romeo Lavia (£58m), Christopher Nkunku (£52m) and Cole Palmer (£42.5m) among the double-figure number of deals for new first-team players in this window.
Add in the vast amount of departures - including Mason Mount's £60m move to Man Utd and the exits of fellow homegrown talents including Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Lewis Hall and Callum Hudson-Odoi - and it has been an incredible overall.
To put it all in context, the £435m spent by Chelsea this summer eclipses the £412m their head coach Mauricio Pochettino got to spend across 11 windows during his time at Tottenham.
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His old club perhaps took the honour of headline deal of the window, though, with Harry Kane's long-discussed departure in search of trophies finally becoming reality thanks to Bayern Munich striking a deal which could reach over £100m for the England captain and Spurs record goalscorer.
That figure smashed Bayern's own transfer record - but this window was a reminder that, even with Saudi Pro League sides getting in on the act, it is the Premier League which remains the heavyweight champion of the world when it comes to transfer trading.The 2023 summer transfer window has been a bit mental, with three of the four biggest deals all involving English players. Not you, Jordan Henderson.
After Liverpool had a £110m bid accepted, Chelsea rescued young Moises Caicedo and finally agreed a deal with Brighton after several bids and many more ‘updates’ from Fabrizio Romano.
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Arsenal got their man, beating Man City – or did they? – to the England midfielder. Rice will surely fare better than Arsenal’s last record signing.
4) Harry Kane (Tottenham to Bayern Munich) – £86m plus £14m add-ons Some late shenanigans were not going to stop Bayern completing a club and Bundesliga record signing once Kane “felt like it was the time to leave” his boyhood club.
In one of the least surprising developments of the summer, Brazil international Neymar left PSG to move to the Saudi Pro League. He will earn over £129m a year in the Middle East. Mental.
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6) Josko Gvardiol (RB Leipzig to Manchester City) – £77m Pep Guardiola is hardly short of options at centre-back, but he could not turn down the opportunity to sign one of the best young defenders around for a fee £20m lower than his reported release clause.
Yet another player to switch from Chelsea for Arsenal, joining ex-teammate Jorginho six months after he moved to the Emirates. This move is a bit strange considering how poor Havertz has been for the Blues, but Mikel Arteta seems to know what he is doing so we will give him the benefit of the doubt.
The France star made a late dash for this list, completing a move to his hometown club on deadline day after doing all he could to force Eintracht Frankfurt to accept what PSG were offering. Kolo Muani refused to train at one point when it looked like he might miss ‘a unique chance for me’ but Frankfurt relented with PSG upped their bid.
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9) Rasmus Hojlund (Atalanta to Manchester United) – £64m plus £8m add-ons Man Utd needed to sign a striker this summer and while most of their supporters would have preferred Harry Kane, they have settled on a relatively untested 19-year-old as a cheaper alternative. This is a massive gamble.
10) Dominik Szoboszlai (Leipzig to Liverpool) – £60m Newcastle had a good old look but as Szoboszlai’s Leipzig release clause neared expiration, Liverpool signed the attacking midfielder within a few days of their firm interest being reported.
West Ham, Tottenham and Chelsea were all said to be in for Doku but the 16-cap Belgium winger became City’s third summer signing after almost three years at Rennes, who made a fat profit on the £22million they paid Anderlecht in 2020.
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It seems like a lot for a player with just a year remaining on his contract but for that money, Manchester United are getting a Champions League winner who is still only 24. The add-ons are said to be very much in United’s favour and are trophy-dependent.
13) Romeo Lavia (Southampton to Chelsea) – £53m plus £5m add-ons After having a summer 2022 deadline
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