The transfer window is on and teams are really doing big business; selling, buying,
loaning, and releasing players. But as always, some are doing better business
than the others and we will be looking at 10 of those teams in this video.
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Now, to the question of the day:
which teams are currently having the best transfer window in Europe?
1. Barcelona
Of course we had to start with Barcelona. These guys have gotten
virtually everyone they wanted in this window.
They got Christensen from Chelsea, Kessie from Milan,
Raphinha from Leeds, Lewandowski from Bayern, and most recently,
Kounde from Sevilla. And not to forget that they were also able to get Dembele
to renew his contract after many speculations that he would be leaving the club for free.
But they’re not even done. The club still has their eyes on a few other players,
Azipilicueta appearing to be top of that list.
If you’re wondering how Barcelona are able to do all this business
while being in financial difficulty, then that means you haven’t watched
this video where we explained how the Blaugranas can still afford to buy players.
Anyway, apart from inflow, Barcelona seem to also be making progress in letting
go of players they no longer need. Weeks ago, they reached an agreement with Spurs
for the loan of Lenglet. And in May, they permanently sold Coutinho to Aston Villa.
They also earned 3 million euros from the loan of Trincao to Sporting CP.
In June, they completed the transfer of Ferran Jutgla to Club Brugge for 5 million euros.
And in July, Rey Manaj joined Watford for free.
Barcelona are still very busy with their outgoings in this window. They are still
working on letting go of more players like Umtiti, Puig, Braithwaite, Neto, and Mingueza.
And the way it is looking, by the time the window closes,
Barcelona may just have got everyone they wanted and let go of everyone they didn’t want.
2. Arsenal
Arsenal have been doing some really good business in this transfer window, and in fact,
they have shocked many people who thought they won’t be able
to pull players since they won’t be in the Champions League this season.
Apart from maybe Raphinha whom they lost to Barcelona,
Arteta has got almost all his targets already.
They bought Fabio Vieira from Porto, Matt Turner from New England Revolution,
Marquinhos from Sao Paolo, Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko from City. And reports say
that they're still looking to snatch Tielemans before the window closes.
But they haven’t just been buying. They have also been offloading players they no longer need.
Lacazette joined Lyon for free, Guendozi was sold to Marseille,
Osei-Tutu joined Bochum for free, Mavropanos was sold to Stuttgart,
while Clarke, John-Jules, Biereth, Trusty, and Flores all left on loan.
3. Liverpool
Losing Sadio Mane might seem like a negative to a lot of people, but the truth is,
it somehow is a huge positive for Liverpool. They were able to let
go of his huge wages and quickly replace him with a much younger forward in Darwin Nunez.
They’ve also completed the transfers of Carvalho and Ramsay from Fulham and Aberdeen respectively.
And on the other hand, they have been able to show quite a number of players the door.
Origi joined Milan for free, Karius was released, Neco Williams was bought by Nottingham Forest,
Minamino was sold to Monaco, while Rhys Williams, Ojo, Bradley, Lewis, Jaros, all left on loan.
4. Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest are finally back in the Premier League and from their activities in
the transfer window, you can just tell that they never want to go back down.
So far, they have bought Taiwo Awoniyi from Union Berlin, Moussa Niakhate from Mainz,
Neco Williams from Liverpool, Omar Richards from Bayern Munich, while also getting Dean
Henderson on loan from Manchester United, Wayne Hennessey for free from Burnley, and the big one;
Jesse Lingard for free from Manchester United.
The newly promoted side already looks stacked up in every position on the field but
they still want more. Reports say that they're close to signing William Carvalho from Real Betis.
Oh, and by the way, they released a couple of their players and loaned a
bunch of them to make space for the incoming signees.
5. Juventus
Juventus have now experienced back-to-back lackluster seasons, and from their activities
in the transfer window, you can tell they really want to bounce back this season.
They have let go of a number of their old players. Chiellini joined LAFC in June,
Dybala just completed his move to AS Roma, Bernardeschi left for Toronto,
Demiral has permanently joined Atalanta, Douglas Costa joined LA Galaxy for free,
Aaron Ramsey has been released, and the big one; de Ligt was sold to Bayern for a pretty good sum.
All these players have quickly been replaced with new ones. They signed Bremer from Torino,
Cambiaso from Genoa, and they have now finally officially signed Chiesa from
Fiorentina. But the biggest moves they have made this summer have to be getting Angel
Di Maria and Paul Pogba for free from PSG and Manchester United respectively.
6. Manchester City
City might already have one of the best squads in Europe, but they have still been very busy
in this transfer window. Unsurprisingly, most of the business has been outgoings.
As we already mentioned, they sold both Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko to Arsenal.
In addition to that, Fernandinho left the club for free, Steffen and Doyle left on loan to
Middlesbrough and Sheffield respectively, CJ Egan-Riley joined Burnley, Leeds bought Gyabi,
Sporting CP bought Pedro Porro, and Sterling was sold to Chelsea.
All the money they have realized from these sales have balanced out their purchases
pretty perfectly. They bought Kalvin Phillips from Leeds and Erling Haaland from Dortmund.
And from the look of things, they may also get Marc Cucurella
from Brighton before they draw the curtain on their transfer window.
For a squad that was already packed full, this is some really good business.
7. PSG
This is another club that already had a packed squad before the transfer window opened, so
they didn’t even have to do much, but they still did.
They just completed the sale of Areola to West Ham and loaned out Dagba to Strasbourg,
while they let Xavi Simons and Di Maria join PSV and Juventus respectively for free.
Wijnaldum is also close to joining AS Roma.
And so far, they have welcomed Ekitike, Mukiele,
Vitinha, and they also just completed the signing of Nuno Mendes who was previously on loan.
But perhaps the biggest piece of business PSG have done so far in this transfer window was to
keep Mbappe. We were all sure that the Frenchman was going to join Madrid for free this summer,
but somehow PSG managed to convince him to extend for an extra 3 years.
More so, if you’ll count it as part of the movements in the window,
the Parisian club also got a new football advisor and a new first team coach.
8. Manchester United
It’s easy for you to say United have not had a good window because they haven’t gotten their
number one target, Frenkie de Jong and also because Ronaldo may still leave, but if you
look closely, you’ll see that these guys have actually done some really good business so far.
They started with letting go of a lot of players. Cavani, Pogba, Lingard, Mata, Matic, Grant,
all left the club for free. Henderson left on loan, while Pereira was sold to Fulham.
Then they started buying new players. They bought Lisandro Martinez and Malacia from
Ajax and Feyenoord respectively, while they got Eriksen for free from Brentford.
It’d be great if they can add de Jong to that list, but the main story here
is the amount of deadwood they have been able to get rid off in this window alone.
9. Spurs
Spurs have done some of the best silent business this summer.
They sold Bergwijn to Ajax and bought Richarlison from Everton,
Bissouma from Brighton, and Spence from Middlesbrough. They also got Lenglet on
loan from Barcelona and then Perisic and Forster for free from Inter and Southampton respectively.
And finally, honorable mention…
10. Toronto FC
Toronto FC is not a European club, but with the summer window they’re having,
we just felt they deserved a spot on this list.
These guys who play in the MLS have been able to secure the signing of 3 big players
from European clubs this summer alone. First they got Euro 2020 winner Insigne from Napoli,
then they got former Juventus defender Criscito from Genoa,
and they capped it all up with 28-year-old Bernardeschi from Juventus.
And guess what! They managed to pay a total sum of zero euros for all these
superstar players. That is such good business for a team playing in the MLS.
Now, the final verdict is yours to make. Which one team would you say has had the
absolute best transfer window so far? Let us know in the comments.
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