Biggest winners and losers of record-breaking transfer window

ENGLISH Premier League clubs shattered their transfer spending record this transfer window, with Monday's deadline day one of the most dramatic in the league's history.

- ROWAN CALLAGHAN

Spending topped £3bn by the time the window shut 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.

In fact, 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 heavy 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. The Anfield giants had looked to pull off another deadline-day coup,