Total bollocks
as if we need another midfielder - and a Spurs reserve at that 
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Total bollocks
as if we need another midfielder - and a Spurs reserve at that ffs
I think we are getting a skip to put Lorentes belongings in.
Personally I'd prefer Harrison to stay, rather than someone who seems a bit of a trouble maker who wants a move to AC Milan. 
Personally I'd prefer Harrison to stay, rather than someone who seems a bit of a trouble maker who wants a move to AC Milan.
Agreed Shaks. Seems some are ok with Harrison leaving but to me he’s Leeds through and through.
Ok he’s not perfect but he never complains, is hardly ever injured and regularly chips in with a few goals and assists.
Probably only asking for the going rate and we should pay him what he’s worth.
Personally I'd prefer Harrison to stay, rather than someone who seems a bit of a trouble maker who wants a move to AC Milan.
Just not sure whee Harrison fits in
I think we have better and faster than jack now. So for me he can go and the money can bring in better.
Would that be for next season as i thought millwall had him all season on a fixed loan.
Arsenal
Trossard was Arsenal’s first signing of the transfer window (Photo: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Mikel Arteta has missed out on top target Mykhailo Mudryk, with Chelsea beating Arsenal to the Shakhtar Donetsk winger after offering superior terms. Arteta wants to bolster his midfield but Brighton are holding firm over Moises Caicedo.
In:
Leandro Trossard (Brighton) — £27m
Jakub Kiwior (Spezia) — £17.5m
Out:
Brooke Norton-Cuffy (Coventry) — loan
Miguel Azeez (Wigan) — loan
Arthur Okonkwo (Sturm Graz) — loan
Harry Clarke (Ipswich) — loan
Ovie Ejeheri (SJK Seinajoki) — loan
Tom Smith (Colchester) — loan
Marquinhos (Norwich) — loan
Aston Villa
Alex Moreno has already made two Premier League appearances for Aston Villa after signing from Real Betis (Photo: Clive Mason via Getty Images)
Unai Emery has added a couple of new faces but a winger is still on his wishlist.
In:
Alex Moreno (Real Betis) — £13.3m
Jhon Duran (Chicago Fire) — £17.7m
Out:
Cameron Archer (Middlesbrough) — loan
Tyreik Wright (Plymouth) — undisclosed
Frederic Guilbert (RC Strasbourg) — undisclosed
Danny Ings (West Ham) — £15.5m
Indiana Vassilev (St Louis City SC) — undisclosed
Morgan Sanson (Strasbourg) — loan
Ludwig Augustinsson (Sevilla) — end of loan
Louie Barry (Salford) — loan
Bournemouth
Dango Ouattara arrived at Bournemouth from Lorient for £20m (Photo: AFC Bournemouth/AFC Bournemouth via Getty Images)
The general lack of activity for Bournemouth in the summer led to Scott Parker losing his job. Winger Dango Ouattara became the first signing of the Bill Foley era, while the club have raided the Championship for a striker.
In:
Dango Ouattara (Lorient) — £20m
Antoine Semenyo (Bristol City) – £9m
Darren Randolph (West Ham) — undisclosed
Matias Vina (Roma) – loan
Out:
James Hill (Hearts) — loan
Brentford
Kevin Schade’s move to Brentford was agreed within four days of the January transfer window opening (Photo: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Thomas Frank has added an attacking reinforcement in Kevin Schade, while the club produced an eye-catching announcement video to mark Romeo Beckham’s loan signing for the club’s B team. A handful of other players — Byron Wilson, Conor McManus and Beaux Booth — have also joined the B team, with Brentford focusing on longer-term planning.
In:
Kevin Schade (Freiburg) — loan
Out:
Myles Peart-Harris (Forest Green) — loan
Aaron Pressley (Accrington) — loan
Edon Pruti (Hartlepool) — loan
Mads Bech Sorensen (Groningen) — loan
Ellery Balcombe (Bristol Rovers) — loan
Tariqe Fosu (Rotherham) — loan
Charlie Goode (Blackpool) — loan
Paris Maghoma (MK Dons) — loan
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton’s planning for this window started a long time ago, with the club agreeing a deal to sign Facundo Buonanotte back in November. Leandro Trossard has departed but the club remain determined to keep hold of Moises Caicedo.
In:
Facundo Buonanotte (Rosario Central) — undisclosed
Yasin Ayari (AIK) — undisclosed
Out:
Aaron Connolly (Hull) — loan
Reda Khadra (Birmingham) — loan
Ed Turns (Leyton Orient) — loan
Todd Miller (Doncaster) — loan
James Beadle (Crewe) — loan
Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) — £27m
Chelsea
Noni Madueke is one of several new recruits to have come through the door at Chelsea (Photo: Joupin Ghamsari/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)
There was heavy investment in the playing staff at Stamford Bridge in the summer, but the Blues have done more big business as they seek to back the Graham Potter project despite a difficult start. Will continued Enzo Fernandez talks bear fruit before the deadline?
In:
Benoit Badiashile (AS Monaco) — undisclosed
David Datro Fofana (Molde) — undisclosed
Andrey Santos (Vasco da Gama) — undisclosed
Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid) — loan
Mykhailo Mudryk (Shakhtar Donetsk) — £62m
Noni Madueke (PSV Eindhoven) — undisclosed
Malo Gusto (Lyon) — £26.3m
Out:
Malo Gusto (Lyon) — loan
Bashir Humphreys (Paderborn) — loan
Cesare Casadei (Reading) — loan
Jude Soonsup-Bell (Tottenham) — undisclosed
Crystal Palace
Patrick Vieira needs midfield reinforcements — but the club are not spending for a multitude of reasons…
In:
None
Out:
Jack Butland (Manchester United) — loan
Killian Phillips (Shrewsbury) — loan
John-Kymani Gordon (Carlisle) — loan
Malcolm Ebiowei (Hull) — loan
Ryan Bartley (Eastbourne Borough) — loan
David Boateng (Dover) — loan
Luke Plange (Lincoln) — loan
Everton
Financial Fair Play trouble threatened to limit Everton’s summer spending but they managed to find money to bring Amadou Onana, Dwight McNeil, Neil Maupay, James Garner and Idrissa Gueye to the club. Frank Lampard has now been sacked, fan protests against the board continue and Anthony Gordon has been sold after submitting a transfer request.
In:
None
Out:
Salomon Rondon — released
Nathan Broadhead (Ipswich) — £1.5m + add-ons
Tom Cannon (Preston) — loan
Niels Nkounkou (Saint-Etienne) — loan
Seb Quirk (Accrington) — loan
Tyler Onyango (Forest Green) — loan
Anthony Gordon (Newcastle) — £40m
Joe Anderson (Sunderland) — undisclosed
Fulham
Joao Palhinha, Andreas Pereira and Willian have been the pick of Marco Silva’s summer signings, but more reinforcements are sought, primarily in midfield. Sheffield United’s Sander Berge is a target.
In:
None
Out:
Anthony Knockaert (Huddersfield) — loan
Ibane Bowat (Den Bosch) — loan
Leeds United
Weston McKennie has joined his USMNT team mate Tyler Adams at Leeds United (Photo: Leeds United Football Club)
Jesse Marsch has plugged holes at left-back and in the frontline, but is still hoping to tie up a deal for Weston McKennie.
In:
Max Wober (Red Bull Salzburg) — £10m
Georginio Rutter (Hoffenheim) — £35m
Weston McKennie (Juventus) — loan
Diogo Monteiro (Servette) — £1m
Out:
Mateusz Klich (D.C. United) — free
Alfie McCalmont (Carlisle) — loan
Leo Hjelde (Rotherham) — loan
Max Dean (MK Dons) — loan
Cody Drameh (Luton) — loan
Joe Gelhardt (Sunderland) — loan
Leicester City
Victor Kristiansen was Leicester’s first signing of the January transfer window (Photo: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
Brendan Rodgers was frustrated at the lack of activity during the summer as Leicester waited until the eleventh hour to make a notable signing, replacing Wesley Fofana with Wout Faes. Rodgers is hoping to do late business to help his side pull away from danger.
In:
Victor Kristiansen (FC Copenhagen) — £13.1m
Tete (Shakhtar Donetsk) — loan
Out:
Ben Nelson (Doncaster) — loan
Jakub Stolarczyk (Hartlepool) — loan
Liverpool
Not long after returning from the World Cup, Cody Gakpo was on his way to Liverpool (Photo: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
Liverpool wasted no time in the build up to the January transfer window, snapping up Cody Gakpo, but Jurgen Klopp’s side continue to stutter this campaign and a potential takeover is a complicating factor in any further business.
In:
Cody Gakpo (PSV) — £37m
Out:
Jake Cain (Swindon) — undisclosed
Jarell Quansah (Bristol Rovers) — loan
Luke Chambers (Kilmarnock) — loan
Manchester City
Erling Haaland, Phillips, Manuel Akanji and Sergio Gomez were all signed in a busy summer at the Etihad, while Julian Alvarez — now a World Cup winner — was introduced to the squad, but Pep Guardiola’s side are not consistently clicking to their usual high standards. Their only signing so far this window appears one for the future.
In:
Maximo Perrone (Velez Sarsfield) — £7.9m
Out:
Liam Delap (Preston) — loan
Nahuel Bustos (Talleres) — loan
Josh Wilson-Esbrand (Coventry) — loan
Kayky (Bahia) — loan
Joao Cancelo (Bayern Munich) — loan
Manchester United
Wout Weghorst is the man trusted to fill the void left by Cristiano Ronaldo (Photo: Manchester United/Manchester United via Getty Images)
Erik ten Hag sought a centre-forward after Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure to Saudi Arabia and the club opted for a low-cost option with summer outlay in mind, plumping for Netherlands international Wout Weghorst.
In:
Jack Butland (Manchester United) — loan
Wout Weghorst (Burnley) — loan
Out:
Cristiano Ronaldo — released
Martin Dubravka (Newcastle) — end of loan
Shola Shoretire (Bolton) — loan
Charlie Savage (Forest Green) – loan
Charlie McNeil (Newport) — loan
Newcastle United
Newcastle’s biggest move of the transfer window saw them sign Anthony Gordon from Everton (Photo: Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images)
Newcastle’s impressive push for Europe continues and Eddie Howe has boosted his attacking options with Anthony Gordon after sanctioning Chris Wood’s exit. Howe is hoping to add a midfielder but time is ticking.
In:
Garang Kuol (Central Coast Mariners) — undisclosed
Martin Dubravka (Manchester United) — end of loan
Amadou Diallo — free
Anthony Gordon (Newcastle) — £40m
Harrison Ashby (West Ham) — undisclosed
Out:
Garang Kuol (Hearts) — loan
Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) — loan
Dylan Stephenson (Hamilton) — loan
Nottingham Forest
Gustavo Scarpa was among the cluster of Brazilian players to sign for Nottingham Forest (Photo: Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Nottingham Forest signed an almost entirely new squad in the summer but business has continued into the winter window as Steve Cooper seeks to capitalise on an upturn in form.
In:
Gustavo Scarpa (Palmeiras) — free
Danilo (Palmeiras) — £17.8m
Chris Wood (Newcastle) — loan
Out:
Loic Bade (Rennes) — end of loan
Dale Taylor (Burton) — loan
Aaron Donnelly (Port Vale) — loan
Ateef Konate (Oxford) — loan
Southampton
James Bree joined Southampton after his contract at Luton entered the final six months (Photo: Matt Watson/Southampton FC via Getty Images)
Miroslav Orsic is the first player Southampton have spent money on in the previous three winter windows and Nathan Jones has raided his former club Luton to boost his backline, as well as recalling Jan Bednarek from Aston Villa.
In:
Mislav Orsic (Dinamo Zagreb) — undisclosed
Carlos Alcaraz (Racing Club) — undisclosed
James Bree (Luton) — undisclosed
Out:
Dynel Simeu (Morecambe) — loan
Dan Nlundulu (Bolton) — loan
Nico Lawrence (Torquay) — loan
Ryan Finnigan (Crewe) — loan
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham hijacked Everton’s move for Arnaut Danjuma (Photo: Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)
Antonio Conte brought the likes of Richarlison, Cristian Romero, Bissouma and Ivan Perisic to north London in the summer but is under scrutiny this season after a run of poor results. The club gazumped Everton to land Arnaut Danjuma but a move for Pedro Porro has stalled so far.
In:
Arnaut Danjuma (Villarreal) — loan
Jude Soonsup-Bell (Chelsea) — undisclosed
Out:
None
West Ham United
Another claret and blue Premier League move was confirmed for Danny Ings (Photo: West Ham United)
The heavy spending at West Ham throughout the summer — on the likes of Lucas Paqueta, Gianluca Scamacca, Nayef Aguerd and Maxwel Cornet — has not quite had the desired effect and David Moyes is under pressure after a poor run of form. Danny Ings has arrived to try and provide goals — but faces a short spell on the sidelines after picking up an injury on his debut.
In:
Luizao (Sao Paulo) — undisclosed
Danny Ings (Aston Villa) — £15m
Out:
Thierry Nevers (Bradford) — loan
Craig Dawson (Wolves) — undisclosed
Conor Coventry (Rotherham) — loan
Will Greenidge (Colchester) — undisclosed
Pierre Ekwah (Sunderland) — loan
Bryan Gil (Sevilla) — loan
Harrison Ashby (Newcastle) — undisclosed
Wolves
Pablo Sarabia is one of a number of players to come through the door at Molineux this month (Photo: Jack Thomas – WWFC/Wolves via Getty Images)
Wolves have done some early business and are showing signs of improvement under Julen Lopetegui. More reinforcements are sought before the deadline.
In:
Matheus Cunha (Atletico Madrid) — loan
Mario Lemina (Nice) — undisclosed
Pablo Sarabia (PSG) — £4.5m
Craig Dawson (West Ham) — undisclosed
Ki-Jana Hoever (PSV) — end of loan
Dan Bentley (Bristol City) — undisclosed
Joao Gomes (Flamengo) — £15m
Out:
Leo Bonatini (San Luis) — free
Fabio Silva (PSV) — loan
Goncalo Guedes (Benfica) — loan
Matija Sarkic (Stoke) — loan
Ki-Jana Hoever (Stoke) — loan
Jackson Smith (Walsall) — loan
Joe Young (Telford) — loan
Connor Ronan (Colorado Rapids) — undisclosed
Leonardo Campana (Inter Miami) — undisclosed
Theo Corbeanu (Arminia Bielefeld) — loan
Chem Campbell (Wycombe) — loan
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Trossard was Arsenal’s first signing of the transfer window (Photo: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Mikel Arteta has missed out on top target Mykhailo Mudryk, with Chelsea beating Arsenal to the Shakhtar Donetsk winger after offering superior terms. Arteta wants to bolster his midfield but Brighton are holding firm over Moises Caicedo.
In:
Leandro Trossard (Brighton) — £27m
Jakub Kiwior (Spezia) — £17.5m
Out:
Brooke Norton-Cuffy (Coventry) — loan
Miguel Azeez (Wigan) — loan
Arthur Okonkwo (Sturm Graz) — loan
Harry Clarke (Ipswich) — loan
Ovie Ejeheri (SJK Seinajoki) — loan
Tom Smith (Colchester) — loan
Marquinhos (Norwich) — loan
Aston Villa
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Alex Moreno has already made two Premier League appearances for Aston Villa after signing from Real Betis (Photo: Clive Mason via Getty Images)
Unai Emery has added a couple of new faces but a winger is still on his wishlist.
In:
Alex Moreno (Real Betis) — £13.3m
Jhon Duran (Chicago Fire) — £17.7m
Out:
Cameron Archer (Middlesbrough) — loan
Tyreik Wright (Plymouth) — undisclosed
Frederic Guilbert (RC Strasbourg) — undisclosed
Danny Ings (West Ham) — £15.5m
Indiana Vassilev (St Louis City SC) — undisclosed
Morgan Sanson (Strasbourg) — loan
Ludwig Augustinsson (Sevilla) — end of loan
Louie Barry (Salford) — loan
Bournemouth
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Dango Ouattara arrived at Bournemouth from Lorient for £20m (Photo: AFC Bournemouth/AFC Bournemouth via Getty Images)
The general lack of activity for Bournemouth in the summer led to Scott Parker losing his job. Winger Dango Ouattara became the first signing of the Bill Foley era, while the club have raided the Championship for a striker.
In:
Dango Ouattara (Lorient) — £20m
Antoine Semenyo (Bristol City) – £9m
Darren Randolph (West Ham) — undisclosed
Matias Vina (Roma) – loan
Out:
James Hill (Hearts) — loan
Brentford
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Kevin Schade’s move to Brentford was agreed within four days of the January transfer window opening (Photo: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Thomas Frank has added an attacking reinforcement in Kevin Schade, while the club produced an eye-catching announcement video to mark Romeo Beckham’s loan signing for the club’s B team. A handful of other players — Byron Wilson, Conor McManus and Beaux Booth — have also joined the B team, with Brentford focusing on longer-term planning.
In:
Kevin Schade (Freiburg) — loan
Out:
Myles Peart-Harris (Forest Green) — loan
Aaron Pressley (Accrington) — loan
Edon Pruti (Hartlepool) — loan
Mads Bech Sorensen (Groningen) — loan
Ellery Balcombe (Bristol Rovers) — loan
Tariqe Fosu (Rotherham) — loan
Charlie Goode (Blackpool) — loan
Paris Maghoma (MK Dons) — loan
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton’s planning for this window started a long time ago, with the club agreeing a deal to sign Facundo Buonanotte back in November. Leandro Trossard has departed but the club remain determined to keep hold of Moises Caicedo.
In:
Facundo Buonanotte (Rosario Central) — undisclosed
Yasin Ayari (AIK) — undisclosed
Out:
Aaron Connolly (Hull) — loan
Reda Khadra (Birmingham) — loan
Ed Turns (Leyton Orient) — loan
Todd Miller (Doncaster) — loan
James Beadle (Crewe) — loan
Leandro Trossard (Arsenal) — £27m
Chelsea
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Noni Madueke is one of several new recruits to have come through the door at Chelsea (Photo: Joupin Ghamsari/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)
There was heavy investment in the playing staff at Stamford Bridge in the summer, but the Blues have done more big business as they seek to back the Graham Potter project despite a difficult start. Will continued Enzo Fernandez talks bear fruit before the deadline?
In:
Benoit Badiashile (AS Monaco) — undisclosed
David Datro Fofana (Molde) — undisclosed
Andrey Santos (Vasco da Gama) — undisclosed
Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid) — loan
Mykhailo Mudryk (Shakhtar Donetsk) — £62m
Noni Madueke (PSV Eindhoven) — undisclosed
Malo Gusto (Lyon) — £26.3m
Out:
Malo Gusto (Lyon) — loan
Bashir Humphreys (Paderborn) — loan
Cesare Casadei (Reading) — loan
Jude Soonsup-Bell (Tottenham) — undisclosed
Crystal Palace
Patrick Vieira needs midfield reinforcements — but the club are not spending for a multitude of reasons…
In:
None
Out:
Jack Butland (Manchester United) — loan
Killian Phillips (Shrewsbury) — loan
John-Kymani Gordon (Carlisle) — loan
Malcolm Ebiowei (Hull) — loan
Ryan Bartley (Eastbourne Borough) — loan
David Boateng (Dover) — loan
Luke Plange (Lincoln) — loan
Everton
Financial Fair Play trouble threatened to limit Everton’s summer spending but they managed to find money to bring Amadou Onana, Dwight McNeil, Neil Maupay, James Garner and Idrissa Gueye to the club. Frank Lampard has now been sacked, fan protests against the board continue and Anthony Gordon has been sold after submitting a transfer request.
In:
None
Out:
Salomon Rondon — released
Nathan Broadhead (Ipswich) — £1.5m + add-ons
Tom Cannon (Preston) — loan
Niels Nkounkou (Saint-Etienne) — loan
Seb Quirk (Accrington) — loan
Tyler Onyango (Forest Green) — loan
Anthony Gordon (Newcastle) — £40m
Joe Anderson (Sunderland) — undisclosed
Fulham
Joao Palhinha, Andreas Pereira and Willian have been the pick of Marco Silva’s summer signings, but more reinforcements are sought, primarily in midfield. Sheffield United’s Sander Berge is a target.
In:
None
Out:
Anthony Knockaert (Huddersfield) — loan
Ibane Bowat (Den Bosch) — loan
Leeds United
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Weston McKennie has joined his USMNT team mate Tyler Adams at Leeds United (Photo: Leeds United Football Club)
Jesse Marsch has plugged holes at left-back and in the frontline, but is still hoping to tie up a deal for Weston McKennie.
In:
Max Wober (Red Bull Salzburg) — £10m
Georginio Rutter (Hoffenheim) — £35m
Weston McKennie (Juventus) — loan
Diogo Monteiro (Servette) — £1m
Out:
Mateusz Klich (D.C. United) — free
Alfie McCalmont (Carlisle) — loan
Leo Hjelde (Rotherham) — loan
Max Dean (MK Dons) — loan
Cody Drameh (Luton) — loan
Joe Gelhardt (Sunderland) — loan
Leicester City
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Victor Kristiansen was Leicester’s first signing of the January transfer window (Photo: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
Brendan Rodgers was frustrated at the lack of activity during the summer as Leicester waited until the eleventh hour to make a notable signing, replacing Wesley Fofana with Wout Faes. Rodgers is hoping to do late business to help his side pull away from danger.
In:
Victor Kristiansen (FC Copenhagen) — £13.1m
Tete (Shakhtar Donetsk) — loan
Out:
Ben Nelson (Doncaster) — loan
Jakub Stolarczyk (Hartlepool) — loan
Liverpool
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Not long after returning from the World Cup, Cody Gakpo was on his way to Liverpool (Photo: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
Liverpool wasted no time in the build up to the January transfer window, snapping up Cody Gakpo, but Jurgen Klopp’s side continue to stutter this campaign and a potential takeover is a complicating factor in any further business.
In:
Cody Gakpo (PSV) — £37m
Out:
Jake Cain (Swindon) — undisclosed
Jarell Quansah (Bristol Rovers) — loan
Luke Chambers (Kilmarnock) — loan
Manchester City
Erling Haaland, Phillips, Manuel Akanji and Sergio Gomez were all signed in a busy summer at the Etihad, while Julian Alvarez — now a World Cup winner — was introduced to the squad, but Pep Guardiola’s side are not consistently clicking to their usual high standards. Their only signing so far this window appears one for the future.
In:
Maximo Perrone (Velez Sarsfield) — £7.9m
Out:
Liam Delap (Preston) — loan
Nahuel Bustos (Talleres) — loan
Josh Wilson-Esbrand (Coventry) — loan
Kayky (Bahia) — loan
Joao Cancelo (Bayern Munich) — loan
Manchester United
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Wout Weghorst is the man trusted to fill the void left by Cristiano Ronaldo (Photo: Manchester United/Manchester United via Getty Images)
Erik ten Hag sought a centre-forward after Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure to Saudi Arabia and the club opted for a low-cost option with summer outlay in mind, plumping for Netherlands international Wout Weghorst.
In:
Jack Butland (Manchester United) — loan
Wout Weghorst (Burnley) — loan
Out:
Cristiano Ronaldo — released
Martin Dubravka (Newcastle) — end of loan
Shola Shoretire (Bolton) — loan
Charlie Savage (Forest Green) – loan
Charlie McNeil (Newport) — loan
Newcastle United
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Newcastle’s biggest move of the transfer window saw them sign Anthony Gordon from Everton (Photo: Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images)
Newcastle’s impressive push for Europe continues and Eddie Howe has boosted his attacking options with Anthony Gordon after sanctioning Chris Wood’s exit. Howe is hoping to add a midfielder but time is ticking.
In:
Garang Kuol (Central Coast Mariners) — undisclosed
Martin Dubravka (Manchester United) — end of loan
Amadou Diallo — free
Anthony Gordon (Newcastle) — £40m
Harrison Ashby (West Ham) — undisclosed
Out:
Garang Kuol (Hearts) — loan
Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) — loan
Dylan Stephenson (Hamilton) — loan
Nottingham Forest
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Gustavo Scarpa was among the cluster of Brazilian players to sign for Nottingham Forest (Photo: Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Nottingham Forest signed an almost entirely new squad in the summer but business has continued into the winter window as Steve Cooper seeks to capitalise on an upturn in form.
In:
Gustavo Scarpa (Palmeiras) — free
Danilo (Palmeiras) — £17.8m
Chris Wood (Newcastle) — loan
Out:
Loic Bade (Rennes) — end of loan
Dale Taylor (Burton) — loan
Aaron Donnelly (Port Vale) — loan
Ateef Konate (Oxford) — loan
Southampton
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James Bree joined Southampton after his contract at Luton entered the final six months (Photo: Matt Watson/Southampton FC via Getty Images)
Miroslav Orsic is the first player Southampton have spent money on in the previous three winter windows and Nathan Jones has raided his former club Luton to boost his backline, as well as recalling Jan Bednarek from Aston Villa.
In:
Mislav Orsic (Dinamo Zagreb) — undisclosed
Carlos Alcaraz (Racing Club) — undisclosed
James Bree (Luton) — undisclosed
Out:
Dynel Simeu (Morecambe) — loan
Dan Nlundulu (Bolton) — loan
Nico Lawrence (Torquay) — loan
Ryan Finnigan (Crewe) — loan
Tottenham Hotspur
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Tottenham hijacked Everton’s move for Arnaut Danjuma (Photo: Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)
Antonio Conte brought the likes of Richarlison, Cristian Romero, Bissouma and Ivan Perisic to north London in the summer but is under scrutiny this season after a run of poor results. The club gazumped Everton to land Arnaut Danjuma but a move for Pedro Porro has stalled so far.
In:
Arnaut Danjuma (Villarreal) — loan
Jude Soonsup-Bell (Chelsea) — undisclosed
Out:
None
West Ham United
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Another claret and blue Premier League move was confirmed for Danny Ings (Photo: West Ham United)
The heavy spending at West Ham throughout the summer — on the likes of Lucas Paqueta, Gianluca Scamacca, Nayef Aguerd and Maxwel Cornet — has not quite had the desired effect and David Moyes is under pressure after a poor run of form. Danny Ings has arrived to try and provide goals — but faces a short spell on the sidelines after picking up an injury on his debut.
In:
Luizao (Sao Paulo) — undisclosed
Danny Ings (Aston Villa) — £15m
Out:
Thierry Nevers (Bradford) — loan
Craig Dawson (Wolves) — undisclosed
Conor Coventry (Rotherham) — loan
Will Greenidge (Colchester) — undisclosed
Pierre Ekwah (Sunderland) — loan
Bryan Gil (Sevilla) — loan
Harrison Ashby (Newcastle) — undisclosed
Wolves
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Pablo Sarabia is one of a number of players to come through the door at Molineux this month (Photo: Jack Thomas – WWFC/Wolves via Getty Images)
Wolves have done some early business and are showing signs of improvement under Julen Lopetegui. More reinforcements are sought before the deadline.
In:
Matheus Cunha (Atletico Madrid) — loan
Mario Lemina (Nice) — undisclosed
Pablo Sarabia (PSG) — £4.5m
Craig Dawson (West Ham) — undisclosed
Ki-Jana Hoever (PSV) — end of loan
Dan Bentley (Bristol City) — undisclosed
Joao Gomes (Flamengo) — £15m
Out:
Leo Bonatini (San Luis) — free
Fabio Silva (PSV) — loan
Goncalo Guedes (Benfica) — loan
Matija Sarkic (Stoke) — loan
Ki-Jana Hoever (Stoke) — loan
Jackson Smith (Walsall) — loan
Joe Young (Telford) — loan
Connor Ronan (Colorado Rapids) — undisclosed
Leonardo Campana (Inter Miami) — undisclosed
Theo Corbeanu (Arminia Bielefeld) — loan
Chem Campbell (Wycombe) — loan
Makes sense Jamster and Marcos has a cunning plan that will save the club millions while still achieving those criteria.
Sack Vic and all of the scouting network. Get Rads to follow Romano on Twitter. See who Brighton and Brentford are linked with and get Angus to write out a cheque and hijack the deal. Proper Roy of the Rovers stuff and we will be in the top 6 in no time
Left back
How Weston McKennie will fit in at Leeds
By Jeff Rueter
There’s a convenient shortcut one can use to assess Weston McKennie’s fit at Leeds United: an increasingly strong connective tissue coloured red, white, and blue.
His coach at Elland Road is fellow American Jesse Marsch, who could also commiserate with McKennie about their respective stays in the German Bundesliga. He’ll join a midfield including their countryman Tyler Adams, the captain of his national team who has been a first-choice option for the USMNT alongside McKennie for years. When he looks to leave the centre of the park, he’ll do so alongside another American Brenden Aaronson, another U.S. international who became Leeds’ record signing last summer.
Scan beyond the obvious, however, and you’ll find an interesting partnership.
For McKennie, this will appear to be a step down from a perennial title contender in Juventus to a side mired in a Premier League relegation scrap. Leeds’ move to sign him should not be seen as Marsch offering a life raft to a compatriot as the S.S. Old Lady appears to be taking on water. Rather, Leeds’ transition to playing in a 4-3-3 more often required someone who can do all the pressing work of a defensive-minded midfielder without forcing the coach to put another deep-lying player onto the pitch.
“I thought seriously,” McKennie told The Athletic on Monday at Elland Road. “Juventus are a Champions League club, a strong club, one of the top teams in Italy and around the world. But for me, I just felt like I couldn’t express my style or play and my full potential there. Leeds are a team who I feel like I fit toe-to-toe with everything that they want to do and accomplish.
“I have friends here. Obviously I think about myself first because it’s my career, but it helps. Tyler’s a similar player to me. He fits in well here, so I’ve heard only good things. That’s how I came to my decision.”
For a player so often asked to do everything he can to keep an amorphous team well-calibrated, a more specialised role could be needed for his development. Conversely, Leeds have found a younger midfield replacement for Mateusz Klich, who has moved to D.C. United of MLS this winter — and McKennie won’t struggle to find friendly faces as he acclimatises.
When analysing McKennie, it is easy to prioritise the proverbial eye-test over the numbers.
It is impossible to look away from the U.S. international when he is at his best. McKennie is a sharp reader of a game who loves to get into dangerous areas to give team-mates an outlet for passing — to force another Americanism into the mix, something of an ideal game-breaking wide receiver. His often eye-catching hairdos (with a patriotically colourful patch at the recent World Cup) are outshone by his work rate, which seemingly keeps him in the TV cameras’ shot no matter the vantage point. He’s also been somewhat amorphous in his young career, that less-specialised player who coaches often ask to fill gaps left open by more defined team-mates.
“When I was at Schalke (from 2016-20), I was all over the place,” McKennie said yesterday. “I was playing right-back, I was playing midfield, I was playing striker, I was playing centre-back… everywhere. I learnt to play different positions.
“When I came to Italy, they could see I was a bit hectic in some of my runs and pressing sometimes — running 60 yards instead of running 30 yards and doing the same thing.
“I definitely learned some tactical and positional discipline. But at the same time, it became a little bit too much — where it felt like I was on a string. The string is pulled here, the string’s pulled there and I couldn’t completely have some type of freedom.
“That was one of the main reasons why I came to the conclusion that I’d come to England and see how I shape up.”
Like Aaronson and Adams before him, his first chance to make a strong impression on his new fanbase could come with his defensive pressing.
So far in 2022-23, McKennie has averaged 4.98 ball recoveries per 90 minutes, with 41.9 per cent of these coming in the opposition’s half of the pitch. In comparison, Klich averaged 6.48 during two and a half Premier League seasons for Leeds, playing mostly under Marcelo Bielsa, including 47.4 per cent in the attacking third. Some of that was dictated by the difference in styles seen in the Bundesliga and Serie A, as McKennie averaged 8.18 recoveries per 90 with Schalke, while that rate dipped to 5.5 after moving to the fallen Serie A giant.
While he filled the role assigned to him, it was never a fully compatible match between Juventus’ style and McKennie’s brand of flair.
“In Italy, there’s a little bit more on the serious side — not in a bad way either,” McKennie said. “They’re very presentable. I’m very, I don’t know… outgoing. I have a really big personality and sometimes it doesn’t work out. Also, the playing style. Italian football in general is very defensive and different paced to what you get here (in England). I’m a very up and down (box to box) type of guy, so that was another reason.”
McKennie will no doubt hope that Marsch will enable him to unleash more from his game, which he had to contain at the Allianz Stadium.
That box-to-box approach should serve Leeds well as it works to progress up the pitch more quickly. Currently, Leeds average 14.4 passes per minute of possession, a tick below the league average of 14.68. Leicester City lead the Premier League with a 16.2 passing rate, while Southampton operate at a more lethargic 13.1 clip.
While Leeds pass close to the league average, they aim to be more progressive than most.
Their 64.6 progressive passes per 90 is fractionally ahead of league leaders Arsenal, ranking sixth overall behind Liverpool, Manchester City, Brighton, Tottenham and Manchester United. While Marsch’s current midfield partnership of Adams and Marc Roca have both proven capable of spraying passes from deep, McKennie will be far from redundant.
To put it mildly, McKennie is seldom compared to Andres Iniesta.
Among all midfielders in the European game’s Big Five leagues who played at least 500 minutes ahead of the recent World Cup, none had a smaller share of his team’s live (aka, open play) passes than the U.S. international. However, only six qualified midfielders had a higher share of their team’s received progressive passes, illustrating his capability of getting into promising areas down the pitch.
The same point can be illustrated with a full season’s worth of play.
McKennie logged 1,369 league minutes for Juventus in 2021-22, starting in 15 of his 21 appearances. In that time, Smarterscout data shows that his receptions were far more impactful for their ball progression as a team than his passes or his carries.
While it is odd to think of a first-choice midfielder being a poor passer, even in this age of role specialisation, McKennie’s strengths in receiving and ball recoveries should help round out the midfield when deployed ahead of summer signings Adams and Roca. That spatial awareness should be a welcome addition for Roca in particular, as the Spaniard can lack options to receive his line-breaking passes due to Leeds’ narrow shape.
Marsch may need to move further away from relying on a 4-2-3-1 base formation in order to accommodate a trio of midfielders who certainly did not come to Yorkshire for 25-minute shifts from the bench. Some of that work has taken place already this month: after lining up in a 4-3-3 just once before the World Cup — in October’s 1-0 defeat against Arsenal at home — Leeds have used the shape for four of their five league matches since play resumed post-Qatar, with Aaronson and Wilfried Gnonto alternating makeshift midfield responsibilities.
Although teenager Gnonto has been an electric inclusion, McKennie could offer much of the Italian’s threat to receive progressive balls while giving Leeds a more natural base shape. Marsch could then play the matchup game by game and pick between Aaronson and Gnonto to join Jack Harrison and Rodrigo in the attacking third — without giving them additional orders to track back.
After so much instability on the pitch since before Bielsa was replaced by the American last February, McKennie’s signing appears to give Leeds far greater balance in midfield.
Roca can stay back with greater confidence that he’ll have a target to find with a pass while Adams continues doing the metronomic work of alternating a series of short passes with his tireless efforts to disrupt opposing build-up sequences.
There is also the fact that, as the squad stood previously, Marsch’s go-to midfielder after Adams and Roca has been Sam Greenwood — a raw youngster who, up to the very end of last season, was regarded as a centre-forward. Beyond that, Adam Forshaw, a 31-year-old veteran of Leeds’ days in the Championship, has lacked fitness this term and barely played, and Darko Gyabi also boasts little experience at age 18.
While signing a central midfielder now was not an urgent priority, it was not difficult to make the argument that Leeds recruiting one of McKennie’s calibre in this window felt extremely prudent.
They can also enjoy a trial period to determine if he is the missing piece to complete Marsch’s newly preferred midfield trio before committing significant funds to making the move permanent.
McKennie was brought in on loan with 24 Champions League appearances for Schalke and Juventus to his name, with Leeds holding a purchase option close to £30million ($37m). Currently a point above the relegation zone, they will have to avoid the drop back down to the Championship over the next four months if they are to trigger that option, on top of certain other conditions.
But that is a question for later in the season. For now, McKennie is squarely focused on making a strong first impression for a team hoping to escape the battle at the bottom of the league far sooner than they did last season, when survival was not assured until the final match. That is very much in his character, as those close to him say he’s “too much of a fighter” to stomach being relegated.
He has enough to focus on the short-term to ensure that purchase option does not loom over his Premier League debut.
“I’m an in-the-moment type person — I’m coming here with how the deal is but if I love it then I don’t see why not,” added McKennie when asked about the prospect of staying. “If maybe Leeds aren’t happy with me or I’m not happy, we’ll see how that goes.
“But, for now, my head is here.”
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By Jeff Rueter
There’s a convenient shortcut one can use to assess Weston McKennie’s fit at Leeds United: an increasingly strong connective tissue coloured red, white, and blue.
His coach at Elland Road is fellow American Jesse Marsch, who could also commiserate with McKennie about their respective stays in the German Bundesliga. He’ll join a midfield including their countryman Tyler Adams, the captain of his national team who has been a first-choice option for the USMNT alongside McKennie for years. When he looks to leave the centre of the park, he’ll do so alongside another American Brenden Aaronson, another U.S. international who became Leeds’ record signing last summer.
Scan beyond the obvious, however, and you’ll find an interesting partnership.
For McKennie, this will appear to be a step down from a perennial title contender in Juventus to a side mired in a Premier League relegation scrap. Leeds’ move to sign him should not be seen as Marsch offering a life raft to a compatriot as the S.S. Old Lady appears to be taking on water. Rather, Leeds’ transition to playing in a 4-3-3 more often required someone who can do all the pressing work of a defensive-minded midfielder without forcing the coach to put another deep-lying player onto the pitch.
“I thought seriously,” McKennie told The Athletic on Monday at Elland Road. “Juventus are a Champions League club, a strong club, one of the top teams in Italy and around the world. But for me, I just felt like I couldn’t express my style or play and my full potential there. Leeds are a team who I feel like I fit toe-to-toe with everything that they want to do and accomplish.
“I have friends here. Obviously I think about myself first because it’s my career, but it helps. Tyler’s a similar player to me. He fits in well here, so I’ve heard only good things. That’s how I came to my decision.”
For a player so often asked to do everything he can to keep an amorphous team well-calibrated, a more specialised role could be needed for his development. Conversely, Leeds have found a younger midfield replacement for Mateusz Klich, who has moved to D.C. United of MLS this winter — and McKennie won’t struggle to find friendly faces as he acclimatises.
When analysing McKennie, it is easy to prioritise the proverbial eye-test over the numbers.
It is impossible to look away from the U.S. international when he is at his best. McKennie is a sharp reader of a game who loves to get into dangerous areas to give team-mates an outlet for passing — to force another Americanism into the mix, something of an ideal game-breaking wide receiver. His often eye-catching hairdos (with a patriotically colourful patch at the recent World Cup) are outshone by his work rate, which seemingly keeps him in the TV cameras’ shot no matter the vantage point. He’s also been somewhat amorphous in his young career, that less-specialised player who coaches often ask to fill gaps left open by more defined team-mates.
“When I was at Schalke (from 2016-20), I was all over the place,” McKennie said yesterday. “I was playing right-back, I was playing midfield, I was playing striker, I was playing centre-back… everywhere. I learnt to play different positions.
“When I came to Italy, they could see I was a bit hectic in some of my runs and pressing sometimes — running 60 yards instead of running 30 yards and doing the same thing.
“I definitely learned some tactical and positional discipline. But at the same time, it became a little bit too much — where it felt like I was on a string. The string is pulled here, the string’s pulled there and I couldn’t completely have some type of freedom.
“That was one of the main reasons why I came to the conclusion that I’d come to England and see how I shape up.”
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Like Aaronson and Adams before him, his first chance to make a strong impression on his new fanbase could come with his defensive pressing.
So far in 2022-23, McKennie has averaged 4.98 ball recoveries per 90 minutes, with 41.9 per cent of these coming in the opposition’s half of the pitch. In comparison, Klich averaged 6.48 during two and a half Premier League seasons for Leeds, playing mostly under Marcelo Bielsa, including 47.4 per cent in the attacking third. Some of that was dictated by the difference in styles seen in the Bundesliga and Serie A, as McKennie averaged 8.18 recoveries per 90 with Schalke, while that rate dipped to 5.5 after moving to the fallen Serie A giant.
While he filled the role assigned to him, it was never a fully compatible match between Juventus’ style and McKennie’s brand of flair.
“In Italy, there’s a little bit more on the serious side — not in a bad way either,” McKennie said. “They’re very presentable. I’m very, I don’t know… outgoing. I have a really big personality and sometimes it doesn’t work out. Also, the playing style. Italian football in general is very defensive and different paced to what you get here (in England). I’m a very up and down (box to box) type of guy, so that was another reason.”
McKennie will no doubt hope that Marsch will enable him to unleash more from his game, which he had to contain at the Allianz Stadium.
That box-to-box approach should serve Leeds well as it works to progress up the pitch more quickly. Currently, Leeds average 14.4 passes per minute of possession, a tick below the league average of 14.68. Leicester City lead the Premier League with a 16.2 passing rate, while Southampton operate at a more lethargic 13.1 clip.
While Leeds pass close to the league average, they aim to be more progressive than most.
Their 64.6 progressive passes per 90 is fractionally ahead of league leaders Arsenal, ranking sixth overall behind Liverpool, Manchester City, Brighton, Tottenham and Manchester United. While Marsch’s current midfield partnership of Adams and Marc Roca have both proven capable of spraying passes from deep, McKennie will be far from redundant.
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To put it mildly, McKennie is seldom compared to Andres Iniesta.
Among all midfielders in the European game’s Big Five leagues who played at least 500 minutes ahead of the recent World Cup, none had a smaller share of his team’s live (aka, open play) passes than the U.S. international. However, only six qualified midfielders had a higher share of their team’s received progressive passes, illustrating his capability of getting into promising areas down the pitch.
The same point can be illustrated with a full season’s worth of play.
McKennie logged 1,369 league minutes for Juventus in 2021-22, starting in 15 of his 21 appearances. In that time, Smarterscout data shows that his receptions were far more impactful for their ball progression as a team than his passes or his carries.
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While it is odd to think of a first-choice midfielder being a poor passer, even in this age of role specialisation, McKennie’s strengths in receiving and ball recoveries should help round out the midfield when deployed ahead of summer signings Adams and Roca. That spatial awareness should be a welcome addition for Roca in particular, as the Spaniard can lack options to receive his line-breaking passes due to Leeds’ narrow shape.
Marsch may need to move further away from relying on a 4-2-3-1 base formation in order to accommodate a trio of midfielders who certainly did not come to Yorkshire for 25-minute shifts from the bench. Some of that work has taken place already this month: after lining up in a 4-3-3 just once before the World Cup — in October’s 1-0 defeat against Arsenal at home — Leeds have used the shape for four of their five league matches since play resumed post-Qatar, with Aaronson and Wilfried Gnonto alternating makeshift midfield responsibilities.
Although teenager Gnonto has been an electric inclusion, McKennie could offer much of the Italian’s threat to receive progressive balls while giving Leeds a more natural base shape. Marsch could then play the matchup game by game and pick between Aaronson and Gnonto to join Jack Harrison and Rodrigo in the attacking third — without giving them additional orders to track back.
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After so much instability on the pitch since before Bielsa was replaced by the American last February, McKennie’s signing appears to give Leeds far greater balance in midfield.
Roca can stay back with greater confidence that he’ll have a target to find with a pass while Adams continues doing the metronomic work of alternating a series of short passes with his tireless efforts to disrupt opposing build-up sequences.
There is also the fact that, as the squad stood previously, Marsch’s go-to midfielder after Adams and Roca has been Sam Greenwood — a raw youngster who, up to the very end of last season, was regarded as a centre-forward. Beyond that, Adam Forshaw, a 31-year-old veteran of Leeds’ days in the Championship, has lacked fitness this term and barely played, and Darko Gyabi also boasts little experience at age 18.
While signing a central midfielder now was not an urgent priority, it was not difficult to make the argument that Leeds recruiting one of McKennie’s calibre in this window felt extremely prudent.
They can also enjoy a trial period to determine if he is the missing piece to complete Marsch’s newly preferred midfield trio before committing significant funds to making the move permanent.
McKennie was brought in on loan with 24 Champions League appearances for Schalke and Juventus to his name, with Leeds holding a purchase option close to £30million ($37m). Currently a point above the relegation zone, they will have to avoid the drop back down to the Championship over the next four months if they are to trigger that option, on top of certain other conditions.
But that is a question for later in the season. For now, McKennie is squarely focused on making a strong first impression for a team hoping to escape the battle at the bottom of the league far sooner than they did last season, when survival was not assured until the final match. That is very much in his character, as those close to him say he’s “too much of a fighter” to stomach being relegated.
He has enough to focus on the short-term to ensure that purchase option does not loom over his Premier League debut.
“I’m an in-the-moment type person — I’m coming here with how the deal is but if I love it then I don’t see why not,” added McKennie when asked about the prospect of staying. “If maybe Leeds aren’t happy with me or I’m not happy, we’ll see how that goes.
“But, for now, my head is here.”
Agreed. I find it strange that players like Harrison that so many Leeds fans don`t rate other clubs and fans do rate and want. But players Leeds fans do rate like Forshaw and Dallas no other clubs and fans want. It is truly baffeling.Personally I'd prefer Harrison to stay, rather than someone who seems a bit of a trouble maker who wants a move to AC Milan.
I must say I very much want Harrison to stay.
Not even bothered about the transfer window now, as far as Im concerned we have done great business. If anything else happens will be a bonus but if we’re done that’s great too. Well done club
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