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The biggest winners and losers of record-breaking transfer window
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|September 03, 2025
ENGLISH Premier League clubs shattered their transfer spending record this transfer window, with Monday’s deadline day being one of the most dramatic in the league’s history.
Spending topped £3bn by the time the window closed at 7pm in the UK, according to Sky Sports News, boosted in large part by Liverpool's record £125m deadline-day fee for Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.
It was a transfer window when some of Europe's top marksmen grabbed a lot of the attention as Premier League clubs flexed their considerable financial muscle.
Others, however, will breathe a sigh of relief that the madness is over, with the horse trading leaving a number of clubs decimated and worse off than they were last season.
Biggest winners: Liverpool
The defending champions were quick out of the blocks with their transfer spending, going big to land coveted young German attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz and striker Hugo Ekitike, along with defensive reinforcements Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong.
Arne Slot would later add young Italian centre-back Giovanni Leoni to his backline stocks. But the big fish was always Isak and it seemed that they would not get their man until Newcastle were able to lock down two late striker signings, with Yoane Wissa arriving from Brentford on deadline day.
This story is from the September 03, 2025 edition of Post.
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