AN ASTONISHING £815million was spent by Premier League clubs on transfers in January.
Big spenders Chelsea account for a large chunk of that, splashing £326m on eight players.
While the likes of Bournemouth made more shrewd signings, bringing in some highly rated talent from across Europe.
League leaders Arsenal, meanwhile, pinched one of Chelsea’s star men, who helped the West London club win the Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup.
Players who have won some of football’s biggest prizes also ended up on English shores.
A World Cup winner joined Todd Boehly’s Blues revolution in a British transfer record.
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While a three-time Champions League winner joined a newly promoted team hoping to stay up in the top flight at the first time of asking.
Here’s SunSport’s best January 2023 transfer team…
Keylor Navas – Nottingham Forest
The 36-year-old joined Nottingham Forest on loan from Paris Saint Germain.
Navas is a three-time Champions League winner and also has three league titles to his name.
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He will hope to dislodge on-loan star Dean Henderson.
Pedro Porro – Tottenham
The Spain international completed a late January transfer, which at one point looked on the brink of collapse.
Spurs then returned to negotiations with Sporting Lisbon and thrashed out a £42m deal.
Porro was previously on Manchester City’s books.
Illia Zabarnyi – Bournemouth
Bournemouth’s new owners are hoping to beat the drop and splashed the cash on the some talent.
And 20-year-old Football Manager wonderkid Zabarnyi was snapped up from Dynamo Kyiv for £24m.
Benoit Badiashile – Chelsea
The Frenchman was part of Boehly’s New Year spend-up.
Joining from Monaco for £35m, the 21-year-old has looked like a Rolls Royce of a defender next to veteran Thiago Silva.
Solid on the ball. Imposing in the air. Lots to like.
Victor Kristiansen – Leicester City
Leicester have had a turbulent campaign so far and needed to dip into the transfer market.
And so they looked into the Danish market and came back with a 20-year-old left-back for £17.5m.
Kristiansen is an impressive Danish youth star, who already had 73 professional appearances to his name for Copenhagen.
Jorginho – Arsenal
Arguably the best deal of the January transfer window for just £12m.
Arsenal couldn’t find a breakthrough in their pursuit of Moises Caicedo and instead pinched one of their rival’s main stars.
Ex-Chelsea ace Jorginho is a Champions League, Super Cup, Club World Cup and Euro 2020 winner, bringing a wealth of experience to Mikel Arteta’s Prem-topping team.
Enzo Fernandez – Chelsea
The World Cup-winning Argentine took football by storm with his performances in Qatar last year.
He was the young player of the tournament, and helped Lionel Messi complete football.
Just six months on from joining Benfica for a modest fee under £20m from River Plate, 22-year-old Fernandez has completed a £107m transfer to Chelsea.
It was a club and British transfer record.
Joao Gomes – Wolves
Struggling Prem side Wolves were in need of reinforcements under the new leadership of Julen Lopetegui.
Six players were brought in, but the most impressive is 21-year-old Gomes.
Joining from Flamengo for £15m, he will look to provide some steely determination alongside an already impressive midfield cohort of Ruben Neves, Matheus Nunes and Joao Moutinho.
Mykhailo Mudryk – Chelsea
The first Ukrainian wonderkid to end up in the Prem last month, followed by Zabarnyi.
Mudryk, 22, joined Chelsea from Shakhtar Donetsk for £88m.
His debut was more than impressive at Anfield, nearly breaking the deadlock after a mazy run.
Cody Gakpo – Liverpool
One of the World Cup’s stars, scoring three for Holland in their run to the quarter-finals.
Gakpo joined Liverpool from PSV for £45m, and is seen as one of the bargains of the window.
Racked up a few appearances for Liverpool since joining, but he is yet to find the back of the net.
Antoine Semenyo – Bournemouth
Joined from Championship outfit Bristol City for just £10.5m.
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Semenyo, 23, featured at the World Cup for Ghana, and has finally made the switch to the top flight.
Quick and a strong finisher.
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