EPL: Transfer deadline day

Premier League

Posted at 18:54

Spending by Premier League club has exceeded £1bn for the first time, which has meant 13 out of the 20 teams in the top-flight have broken their transfer records:
Manchester United: Paul Pogba (£93.25m)
Liverpool: Sadio Mane (£36m)
Crystal Palace: Christian Benteke (£32m)
West Ham: Andre Ayew (£20.5m)
Leicester: Ahmed Musa (£16m)
Southampton: Sofiane Boufal (£16m)
Swansea: Borja Baston (£15.5m)
Bournemouth: Jordon Ibe (£15m)
Sunderland: Didier N'Dong (£13.6m)
Hull: Ryan Mason (£13m)
West Brom: Nacer Chadli (£13m)
Watford: Roberto Pereyra (£13m)
Burnley: Jeff Hendrick (£10.5m)

NKoudou 'aged' by Spurs move

Tottenham Hotspur

Posted at 18:44

Spurs took a while to get the signing of Marseille midfielder Georges-Kevin NKoudou over the line. So long the player reckons he has aged about 18 years...

D.Tee:Hart, Nasri, Mangala, Bony all loans. Seems teams are not keen on doing permanent deals due to their huge wages.
Mike Steere: So many deadline day loan moves is no surprise - look at the housing market. If you can't afford to buy, you rent! 

Conte gambles on deadline day

Is Marcos Alonso worth the £23m? I am not so sure. He has little bit of history in England with Bolton and Sunderland but it looks like Chelsea will sign David Luiz too.
The fact Chelsea don't have Champions League football goes against them in trying to attract players. It is probably why they have paid over the odds for Alonso.
Antonio Conte has come in and been a fresh air but in a single day has made to gamble signings. Managers are judged on recruitment and he could be under pressure if they don't go right.
Is Luiz coming back at a centre-back or midfielder? The jury is certainly still out on him as a centre-half. I thought Conte would go for a rugged defensive type and was linked with Kalidou Koulibaly of Napoli.

Wilshere arrives for medical

Bournemouth

Posted at 18:32

We have just seen pictures of Jack Wilshere arriving at Bournemouth. A car-park hug with Cherries striker Benik Afobe - who is apparently the godfather of Wilshere's son - before heading inside for a medical.
We'll resist the temptation to make a gag about him tripping over a cone in the car park and injuring his ankle...

Spurs' swapsie

Tottenham Hotspur

Posted at 18:25

"You give us NKoudou and you can have Clinton Njie. Deal?"
Deal. Daniel Levy's poker face has worked a treat again.
Spurs have signed Marseille's NKoudou, with Clinton Njie - who struggled to make an impact in his debut season -  joining Ligue 1 side Marseille on loan until the end of the season.  

Three-year loan deal for Cuadrado

Chelsea

Posted at 18:15

Earlier we told you Italian champions Juventus had agreed to take Chelsea winger Juan Cuadrado. Here's a bit more meat on the bones.
It is a loan move. A THREE-YEAR loan move.
Juve will pay 5m euros a year for the Colombian, but have the right to buy him permanently for 25m euros at any time.

The Sun's Dream Team department have tracked down David Luiz to St Pancras station where is fresh off the Eurostar from Paris and presumably on his way to Chelsea's Cobham base.
The Sun's man on the scene, asked the Brazilian if he was Blues bound.
"I can't speak," he replied. 
But he was happily posing for selfies with fans and said it was "good" to be back in London.

And here's some more evidence of David Luiz's return to Stamford Bridge. Even his famously fuzzy hair hiding under a snap-back cap didn't throw this eagle-eyed Chelsea fan off the scent...