How significantly did the transfers change the landscape of the EPL? Which teams were winners and which teams were losers?
Only time will tell, cpaw. In my opinion, the best EPL transfers of this season are Nasri (Arsenal), Berbatov (Man. United), Keane (Liverpool), Deco (Chelsea), and Robinho (Man. City). Keane and Berbatov will be automatic great signings because we all know that they can play well in the EPL. Deco, Nasri, and Robinho are all played in a foreign league, and are new to the EPL, so the EPL may be too physical for their style of play. For example, a few seasons back Chelsea bought Shevchencko (a huge signing at the time), but he was a complete flop because he could not adapt to the English style of play. I think the most succesful team of the transfer window was Tottenham, seeing as they brough in Modric (great Croatian playmaker), Dos Santos (promising Mexican youngster), Bentley (promising English youngster with interational experience), Pavlyuchenko (an amazing Russian striker), Corluka (another great Croatian defender), and Frazier Campbell (who is currenlty unknown to many people, but will make a big impact in years to come). The least successful has to be Middlesbrough, West Ham, and Everton who only managed to grab 1 or 2 mediocre signings. The only significant thing that happened is that Manchester City (Manchester United's rivals) were bought out (at the last minute) and are pretty much loaded. They hijacked a lot of bids, but only managed to succeed on one. Like I said earlier, only time will tell who were the losers. People always get hyped over a new player, and sometimes they end up disappointed with how he plays. To an outsider, this probably sounds like a bunch of random shit. Please feel free so ask me questions!
Arsenal, United and Chelsea IMO did their best by not losing any of their top stars and bringing in top talent in Nasri, Berbatov and Deco. Losers are the rest of the league. LOL (nah j/k, maybe some of the middle teams but everyone did pretty good)
Manchester City is the real winner. Many expected Berbatov to go to ManU. But Man City came out of no where to land a star, paving their way for future signings. -Petey
Berbatov did go to United... I think you mean Robinho. Truth be told, Spurs did lose a lot of big players.
I know he did. But people expected it. So how does that make them winners? Man City on the other hand did the unexpected. By doing so, they rallied their supporters and they told players and agents that Man City will be a great destination for furthering your football ambitions. -Petey
Sorry, I just thought you made a mistake. They got bought out by some rich, fat cat, and they can throw money anywhere. If they were just normal old Thaksin-owned City, they wouldn't of hijacked the bids. Nonetheless, a great last day for Man Shitty. I wouldn't call anybody in the transfer window "winners", I'm not quite sure how you could win that, though I'm sure Abramovich would love to.
It depends whether you mean yesterday in particular, or the whole window in general. Yesterday: winners: Man Utd, Man City, Spurs losers: Everton, Man City (lol), Spurs Tottenham were both winners and losers; they signed two good players, but lost Berbatov, albeit at an inflated price. They could have done with completing the Berbatov transfer earlier and signing a player or two with the money they received. Man City are in both categories because they lost, and didn't replace, a good defender. Also, with all the speculation throughout the day, they might/should have got more than they did. To call them losers is harsh, as they did more than was expected of them 2 days ago, but if you base it on yesterday, it could so easily have been a lot more. In general over this transfer window: Winners: Chelsea - got rid of fring players, acquired two quality Portuguese players. Fulham - really only lost one key player, made a lot of shrewd signings that should see them consolidate their Premiership status. Man City - some incredible signings even before the Abu Dhabi takeover; Jo, SWP, Kompany, Ben-Haim were great signings and Robinho to top it off. Lost Corluka, but that's a small loss in comparison to all those signings. Will be an interesting January for them. Man Utd - only lost fringe/reserve players, gained Berbatov whilst keeping Campbell permanently, and signed promising youngster from Roma (Petrucci I think) Spurs - some great signings, but not sure if there's anyone to fill the Berbatov-shaped hole left in the team. There is Pavlyuchenko, but I'm not sure he's a Berbatov-type player Losers - not many since most transfers are buying in from abroad: Everton - more because of a lack of incoming stars Newcastle - as above, also lost manager as a result of poor transfers Liverpool - disappointing transfers to be honest, should have done better as a Champions League team
I think sunderland have done well over this transfer window as i didn't see that many stars going there to mediocre sunderland.
I understand that. I think Man City's signing of Robinho was much bigger than ManU's of Berbatov. In fact I don't know if I would consider ManU a winner of this transfer window. ManU is one of the biggest clubs in the world and they are expected to improve. Berbatov was their own signing while they lost out on some other targets (rumored; like Ramsey). They even sold a few pieces. Now Man City's signing of Robinho goes beyond the product on the pitch. I have read that the new owner is 10x richer than Roman. I've read he tried to throw 35million pounds at Berbatov. He tried to throw 30million pounds at Villa. He made comments on how much he thought that Ronaldo was worth and why Real Madrid couldn't land him, creating speculation that he would try to go after him (Ronaldo). I'm sure fans (of Man City) are more excited. Good time to be a fan of theirs. Before Robinho, they brought back SWP on the cheap (scored twice already), and they brought in Kompany who I think is one of the good/great young defenders in the game. And they do so for what Wenger paid for Ramsey, a guy with no league 1 experience. -Petey
