Daily Football Updates || 10-August-2018 || SportsThatCreated On: Aug 10, 2018
The English transfer window has shut and the clubs in the Premier League wont be able to sign any player though they can sell. Lets have a look at all the transfers which have been completed at the time of writing and those which could be completed in a few hours:
A point to be noted: Tottenham have become the first club in Premier League history to not sign a player in the summer transfer window.
Swansea's Sam Clucas has signed for fellow Championship club, Stoke City for a fee of 6M pounds and has signed a 4-year contract with the club. Clucas becomes Stokes 7th signing of the transfer window.
Everton have had a memorable deadline day as they signed 3 players: Bernard, Andre Gomes and Yerry Mina.
Brazilian winger, Bernard has signed a 4-year contract after signing on a free transfer from Shakhtar Donetsk. Andre Gomes meanwhile has completed a season long loan deal after struggling to nail down a place at Camp Nou. His Barca teammate Yerry Mina has completed a permanent transfer for a fee of 27.2M pounds though Barcelona have inserted a buy back clause in his contract.
Fulham have signed goalkeeper, Sergio Rico from Sevilla on a 1-year loan deal.
In one of the biggest transfer of this summer, Thibaut Courtois has signed for Spanish giants Real Madrid on a six-year contract after completing a 35M pounds transfer from Chelsea. As part of the deal, Mateo Kovacic has moved to Stamford Bridge for a season long loan.
As a result of Courtois departure, Chelsea have broken the transfer record for a goalkeeper by signing Kepa Arrizabalaga from Athletic Bilbao for a fee of 71.6M pounds. This surpasses the 67M pounds which Liverpool paid for Alisson this summer.
Arsenal striker Lucas Perez has signed for West Ham United for a fee of 5M pounds and signed a 3-year contract with the club. Perez becomes West Hams 8th signing of the summer as new manager Manuel Pellegrini looks to overhaul the squad.
The Hammers have also signed midfielder Carlos Sanchez from Fiorentina on a 2-year deal.
Leicester City have finalised the transfer of defender Filip Benkovic from Dinamo Zagreb for a reported fee of 13M pounds. Leicester have also signed defender Caglar Soyuncu from Freiburg for a fee of 19M pounds.
Wolves have signed midfielder Leander Dendoncker from Anderlecht on a season long loan with an option to make the move permanent next summer.
Fulham have agreed a 30M pound deal to sign Marseille midfielder Andre-Frank Zambo. They have also signed left-back Joe Bryan from Bristol City on a 4-year deal and Atletico Madrid striker, Luciano Vietto on a season long loan.
Atletico meanwhile have signed striker Nikola Kalinic from AC Milan for a fee of 13M pounds.
Newcastle United have signed center back, Federico Fernandez from Swansea City for a fee of 6M pounds. The Argentine will stay in the Premier League after Swanseas relegation and has signed a 2-year contract.
Brighton & Hove Albion have completed the signing of right back, Martin Montoya from Valencia.
Crystal Palace have signed Jordan Ayew from Swansea City.
DEALS WHICH COULD BE COMPLETED IN A FEW HOURS:
Liverpool striker Danny Ings is close to moving to Southampton after the south coast club submitted a deal sheet. Liverpool initially wanted 20M pounds for the striker but it looks like Ings will sign on a loan deal.
David Ospina is reportedly set to sign for Turkish club, Besiktas after falling down the pecking order at the Emirates.
Everton are also close to signing another center back with Kurt Zouma close to completing a loan move from Chelsea.