Premier League Summer Transfer Window Review

Arsenal

Bringing in Christos Tzolis, Bruno Guimarães and Ezri Konsa was a strong start to the window but could Arsenal’s failure to sign a marquee attacker cost them in the long run? They began targeting Morgan Rogers before pivoting to Vinícius Júnior when the England forward went to Chelsea, only to end up disappointed when Vinícius signed a new deal with Real Madrid. Julián Alvarez made clear he had no intention of joining from Atlético Madrid in the final days of the window and Arsenal kept their powder dry despite sanctioning the exits of Gabriel Jesus to Barcelona and Ethan Nwaneri to Borussia Dortmund. Should Gabriel Martineilli complete his move to Al-Hilal as expected in the coming days – the Saudi Pro League window remains open – a few injuries could leave Arteta short. Ed Aarons

Key ins: Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle, £75m), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa, £51m), Piero Hincapié (Bayer Leverkusen, £45m), Christos Tzolis (Club Brugge, £34m)

Key outs: Leandro Trossard (Besiktas, £15.3m), Jakub Kiwior (Porto, £14.5m), Gabriel Jesus (Barcelona, £8.6m), Fábio Vieira (Hamburg, £7.7m), Christian Nørgaard (Everton, £7m), Ethan Nwaneri (Borussia Dortmund, loan), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Crystal Palace, free)

Aston Villa

It is all change at Villa and, although a little trepidation is inevitable, a refresh was probably overdue. At the same time, Unai Emery did not want to lose so many key players and Villa’s manager has made clear there is no such thing as a transition season in his eyes. Villa have generated about £300m from the sales of nine players and brought in 10 at a cost of about £250m. Villa have lowered their wage bill and changed the profile of their squad. Zion Suzuki, Ibrahim Mbaye and Johan Manzambi, names on the lips of Villa’s rivals, are particularly exciting signings. Last summer there was concern Villa had gone stale and 12 months ago they ended up fretting on deadline day – Harvey Elliott and Jadon Sancho joined on loan – but there was no such chaos this time. Ben Fisher

Key ins: Johan Manzambi (Freiburg, £51m), Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea, £47.5m), Ibrahim Mbaye (PSG, £47m), João Gomes (Wolves, £34m), Zion Suzuki (Parma, £30m), Taylor Harwood-Bellis (Southampton, £25m), Matteo Ruggeri (Atlético Madrid, £21.4m), Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich, free), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (West Ham, loan), Alejandro Garnacho (Chelsea, loan)

Key outs: Morgan Rogers (Chelsea, £117m), Ollie Watkins (Al-Hilal, £51m), Ezri Konsa (Arsenal, £51m), Youri Tielemans (Manchester United, £35m), Donyell Malen (Roma, £21.6m), Lewis Dobbin (Southampton, £9m), Lucas Digne (PSG, £8.5m), Emiliano Martínez (Chelsea, £7.5m), Evann Guessand (Crystal Palace, loan)

Bournemouth

Perhaps Bournemouth’s best business was keeping hold of their coveted key players, chiefly Eli Junior Kroupi, Rayan, Alex Scott and Tyler Adams. Bournemouth rejected bids from Chelsea for Scott and stayed true to their plan of resisting offers to give Marco Rose the best chance of succeeding, with the club attempting to juggle European competition and the league for the first time. The arrival of the Portugal centre-back António Silva, 22, from Benfica looks a typically smart replacement for Marcos Senesi, 29. Kroupi’s freak foot injury, which will probably keep him out until November, may have proved a blessing in disguise in terms of retaining the 20-year-old. BF

Key ins: António Silva (Benfica, £21.4m), Álvaro Rodríguez (Elche, £21.3m), Juanlu Sánchez (Sevilla, £11.1m), Michele Di Gregorio (Juventus, loan)

Key outs: Luis Sinisterra (Cruzeiro, £5.2m), Enes Unal (Getafe, free), Álex Jiménez (Fiorentina, loan), Marcos Senesi (Tottenham, free)

Brentford

Avoiding a repeat of last year’s upheaval was a major boost. Keith Andrew held on to his best players and made smart additions to a solid squad. Mamadou Sangaré has added quality in midfield since joining from Lens and looks the bargain of the summer. Callum Wilson has brought experience up front after signing on a free and Jaidon Anthony provides cover on the flanks after his £15m move from Burnley. El Hadji-Malick Diouf, signed from West Ham, offers potential at left-back. Jacob Steinberg

Key ins: Mamadou Sangaré (Lens, £39m), El Hadji Malick Diouf (West Ham, £35m), Jaidon Anthony (Burnley, £15m), Jannik Schuster (Red Bull Salzburg, £14m), Callum Wilson (West Ham, free)

Key outs: Ethan Pinnock (Coventry, £6m), Jordan Henderson (Chelsea, free)

Brighton

A deadline day deal to bring in the exciting Nigeria forward Femi Azeez from Millwall came to nothing but the Spanish midfielder Chema Andrés joined from Stuttgart, making it 11 signings in another summer of transition. The departures of Jan Paul van Hecke, Carlos Baleba and Carl Rushworth brought in more than £140m as the Brighton model continues to deliver big profits, although losing last season’s top scorer, Danny Welbeck, to Chelsea for a mere £5m may be the biggest loss if the new striker Promise David cannot bring the goals. EA

Key ins: Luka Vuskovic (Tottenham, £46m), Zadok Yohanna (AIK, £21.5m), Chema Andrés (Stuttgart, £18.9m), Pascal Struijk (Leeds, £18m), Jaouen Hadjam (Young Boys, £11.1m), Costinha (Olympiakos, £11m), Michael Svoboda (Venezia, £4.3m), Promise David (Union St-Gilloise, loan)

Key outs: Carlos Baleba (Manchester United, £70m), Jan Paul van Hecke (Tottenham, £52m), Carl Rushworth (Coventry, £22.5m), Diego Coppola (Paris FC, £15.3m), Danny Welbeck (Chelsea, £5m), Joël Veltman (West Ham, free), James Milner (retired), Solly March (released)

Chelsea

Xabi Alonso’s appointment as manager was the biggest signing of the summer. Chelsea have been sensible since turning to the Spaniard. Morgan Rogers has started well after joining for £117m. Maxence Lacroix adds power in defence, Marco Palestra versatility on the flanks. Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson can raise standards in the dressing room. But there was the usual revolving door. Money was made on a host of outgoings. Marc Cucurella, one of the world’s best left-backs and sold to Real Madrid, looks a bigger loss than Enzo Fernández. However a worry is that Chelsea did not replace Fernández after selling him to Manchester City for £125m, their late £47m move for Monaco’s Lamine Camara collapsing at the last. JS

Key ins: Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa, £117m), Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace, £52m), Marco Palestra (Atalanta, £47m), Geovany Quenda (Sporting, £40m), Valentín Barco (Strasbourg, £34m), Emmanuel Emegha (Strasbourg, £21.6m), Pep Chavarría (Rayo Vallecano, £16.3m), Emiliano Martínez (Aston Villa, £7.5m), Danny Welbeck (Brighton, £5m), Jordan Henderson (Brentford, free)

Key outs: Enzo Fernández (Manchester City, £125m), Marc Cucurella (Real Madrid, £52m), Andrey Santos (Manchester United, £50m), Nicolas Jackson (Aston Villa, £47.5m), Liam Delap (Nottingham Forest, £45m), Trevoh Chalobah (Como 1907, £25.7m), Tyrique George (Everton, £18m), Marc Guiu (RB Leipzig, £14.5m), Tosin Adarabioyo (Tottenham, £7m), Axel Disasi (Crystal Palace, loan), Alejandro Garnacho (Aston Villa, loan), Benoît Badiashile (Napoli, loan), Robert Sánchez (Como, loan), Mykhailo Mudryk (Tottenham, loan)

Coventry

It remains to be seen whether Coventry have struck the right balance in the market. Frank Lampard wanted to maintain momentum but add power and physicality. Coventry also sought to address their lack of Premier League experience with Taiwo Awoniyi and Ethan Pinnock. Coventry were the highest scorers in English football’s top four tiers last season but the step up means the pressure is on Awoniyi, never prolific for Nottingham Forest, Sidiki Cherif, a promising 19-year-old, and Ellis Simms to deliver before Haji Wright returns from injury. Stephen Mfuni, a teenage loanee from Manchester City and their 11th and final summer signing, increases their left-back options. BF

Key ins: Caleb Yirenkyi (Nordsjælland, £23m), Carl Rushworth (Brighton, £22.5m), Sidiki Cherif (Fenerbahce, £20.5m), Loum Tchaouna (Burnley, £20m), Aurèle Amenda (Eintracht Frankfurt, £15.4m), Taiwo Awoniyi (Nottingham Forest, £9m), Ethan Pinnock (Brentford, £6m), Gustavo Hamer (Sheffield United, £6m), Stephen Mfuni (Manchester City, loan), Frank Onyeka (Brentford, undisclosed), Dan Bentley (Wolves, undisclosed)

Key outs: None

Crystal Palace

The lost tug of war with Sunderland over Malick Fofana summed up another chaotic deadline day for Palace, who were still scrambling for signings in the final minutes and confirmed the arrivals of Ben Chilwell, Quinten Timber and Darío Osorio after the window shut. The new manager, Pierre Sage, will at least be pleased to have secured more defensive reinforcements after losing Maxence Lacroix to Chelsea, with the loanees Honest Ahanor and Axel Disasi adding much-needed depth. Palace also kept hold of Ismaïla Sarr – presuming he doesn’t join a club in Saudi Arabia before the Sunday deadline there – after rejecting an approach from Liverpool for the Senegal forward. EA

Key ins: Anan Khalaili (Union St-Gilloise, £21m), Quinten Timber (Marseille, £15m), Zavier Gozo (Real Salt Lake, £11m), Axel Disasi (Chelsea, loan), Evann Guessand (Aston Villa, loan), Honest Ahanor (Atalanta, loan), Darío Osorio (Midtjylland, loan), Dwight McNeil (Everton, swap), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal, free), Óscar Mingueza (Celta Vigo, free), Ben Chilwell (Strasbourg, undisclosed fee)

Key outs: Maxence Lacroix (Chelsea, £52m), Daniel Muñoz (Nottingham Forest, £22m), Brennan Johnson (Everton, swap), Borna Sosa (Cologne, loan)

Everton

It was a window that revealed the extent of The Friedkin Group’s ambitions, the strength of the club’s finances after the move to a new stadium, the state of the relationship between the manager and chief executive and the expertise of the senior leadership team; and none of it was positive. The owners deserve some credit for listening to fans and halting the self-defeating sale of Harrison Armstrong to Nottingham Forest but otherwise it was a modest window that descended into a shambles. The club’s best player was sold for a below-market fee, a move for Folarin Balogun collapsed and although the equally desperate search for a right-back ended with Ainsley Maitland-Niles signing, David Moyes was left with one striker and a smaller squad than he started the day with, despite repeatedly urging his employers to strengthen. AH

Key ins: Tyrique George (Chelsea, £18m), Merlin Röhl (Freiburg, £17.3m), Hayden Hackney (Middlesbrough, £16.5m), Christian Nørgaard (Arsenal, £7m), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Lyon, £4.2m), Brennan Johnson (Crystal Palace, swap), Jack Grealish (Manchester City, loan)

Key outs: Iliman Ndiaye (Manchester City, £60m), Beto (Fiorentina, £15.4m), Tim Iroegbunam (Hull, £13m), Dwight McNeil (Crystal Palace, swap), Idrissa Gueye (Al-Diriyah, free), Nathan Patterson (Torino, free), Séamus Coleman (released)

Fulham

It was a summer of change at Craven Cottage. Marco Silva departed after five successful years in charge and was replaced by the inexperienced Álvaro Arbeloa, who has focused on adding youth. Gonzalo García, César Palacios and Manuel Ángel followed Arbeloa from Real Madrid and Shea Charles is an exciting signing from Southampton. Some stalwarts have left. Raúl Jiménez joined Wolves and Harry Wilson went to Leeds. Fulham looked to strengthen. They secured the midfielder Hugo Larsson and centre-back David Affengruber on deadline day but missed out on another target, the right-back Andrei Ratiu. JS

Key ins: Gonzalo García (Real Madrid, £34.3m), Shea Charles (Southampton, £30m), David Affengruber (Elche, £10.3m), César Palacios (Real Madrid, £8.6m), Jonah Kusi-Asare (Bayern Munich, £5.2m), Manuel Ángel (Real Madrid, £3.4m), Hugo Larsson (Eintracht Frankfurt, loan)

Key outs: Sasa Lukic (Ipswich, £9m), Issa Diop (Ipswich, £8.5m), Harry Wilson (Leeds, free), Raúl Jiménez (Wolves, free)

Hull

“Think of us like a volcano,” said Hull’s owner, Acun Ilicali, in early July. “It’s boiling right now and it’s going to erupt.” Two months on the Ilicali has presided over 18 signings, investing more than £150m and his manager, Sergej Jakirovic, has choreographed two Premier League wins. The horizon looks infinitely brighter than in June, when the playoff winners sold two players for a combined £8.5m to avoid breaching English Football League spending rules and a near-certain six-point deduction. Hull, remember, spent last season under a two-window EFL transfer embargo. They have compensated for that this summer and, although time will tell whether all those new faces are compatible, reasons for optimism remain real. Not least because last season’s cult hero loanee forward Joe Gelhardt has signed permanently from Leeds. Louise Taylor

Key ins: Nobel Mendy (Rayo Vallecano, £20m), Konstantinos Tzolakis (Olympiakos, £20m), Lucas Herrington (Colorado Rapids, £17.1m), Ilyas Ansah (Union Berlin, £14.5m), Mohamed-Ali Cho (Nice, £13m), Brooke Norton-Cuffy (Genoa, £12m), Jens Hjerto-Dahl (Tromsø, £10m), Tim Iroegbunam (Everton, £13m), Christos Mouzakitis (Olympiakos, £12.9m), Sorba Thomas (Stoke, £7.5m), Joe Gelhardt (Leeds, £6.5m), Jack Butland (Rangers, £3.5m), Lucas Gourna-Douath (Red Bull Salzburg, £3.4m), Elliot Stroud (Mjällby, £3m), Robinio Vaz (Roma, loan), Hidemasa Morita (Sporting, free), Matt Targett (Newcastle, free), Óscar Zambrano (Maribor, undisclosed fee)

Key outs: Ivor Pandur (Rangers, £6m), Cody Drameh (Genoa, £3.9m), Abu Kamara (Portsmouth, £2.5m), Kyle Joseph (Middlesbrough, undisclosed fee)

Ipswich

The late addition of Burnley’s striker Zian Flemming brought Ipswich’s summer spend close to £200m. That appears to be the cost of giving yourselves a genuine shot at survival. Arrivals such as Exequiel Palacios and Julio Enciso should have no business in the lower reaches, and the former Fulham pair Sasa Lukic and Issa Diop add crucial experience. Gary O’Neil can call upon enviable depth in midfield and speed on the flanks, where Abdul Fatawu and Daizen Maida look sharp. But time will tell whether Ipswich strengthened their defence sufficiently for regular tests of the kind they failed at Old Trafford on Sunday. Nick Ames

Key ins: Julio Enciso (Strasbourg, £26m), Emersonn (Toulouse, £24m), Exequiel Palacios (Bayer Leverkusen, £23.5m), Zian Flemming (Burnley, £20m), Abdul Fatawu (Leicester, £20m), Abdoul Ouattara (Strasbourg, £17m), Florentino Luís (Burnley, £16m), Daizen Maeda (Celtic, £10m), Sasa Lukic (Fulham, £9m), Kjell Scherpen (Union St-Gilloise, £8.6m), Issa Diop (Fulham, £8.5m), Chuba Akpom (Ajax, £7m), Kayne van Oevelen (Volendam, £3.4m), Cédric Kipré (Reims, £1.7m)

Key outs: George Hirst (Stoke, £6m), Arijanet Muric (Sassuolo, £6m), Harry Clarke (Preston, £3.5m)

Leeds

In an ideal world Daniel Farke might have wished for one more high-calibre attacking recruit but that should not detract from a very decent window, featuring seven extremely sensible signings. The importance of the acquisition of the England goalkeeper James Trafford from Manchester City should not be underestimated