Transfer deadline day live: Liverpool sign Isak despite Guehi blow, Man Utd striker deal, Arsenal updates

More from Miguel Delaney, who argues Liverpool “might be the best-run club in the world and their £420m summer spending shows who has control among the Premier League’s modern owners”.

The conclusion of the Alexander Isak saga, Marc Guehi’s move falling through and late deals all around the Premier League provided a fittingly frenetic end to a summer that showed where the power lies within European football, argues Miguel Delaney.

Marc Guehi is still a Crystal Palace player after his £35m deadline day move to Liverpool broke down at the 11th hour.

Both clubs had agreed on a fee for the defender, who had undergone his Liverpool medical on Monday. However, the FA Cup winners withdrew from the deal after they failed to sign their preferred replacement when Igor Julio decided to join West Ham instead of Palace.

It means the Eagles captain will have to wait for his move away, which is still expected to come inside the next 12 months.

Lawrence Ostlere argues Man United’s new goalkeeper Senne Lammens represents the kind of transfer that, if he lives up to his potential, could reap huge rewards.

ottenham had pushed for Randal Kolo Muani in January. Spurs were looking to sign a versatile forward to boost Ange Postecoglou’s attacking options for the second half of the season only for the Frenchman to reject the chance to move to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Spurs ultimately ended up signing Mathys Tel on loan before making that move permanent earlier in the summer. Compatriot Kolo Muani, meanwhile, secured a switch to Juventus at the turn of the year, and the 26-year-old caught the eye in a dysfunctional Old Lady outfit.

Kolo Muani ended the Serie A season with eight goals to his name. He added two goals at the Club World Cup and while Juventus were keen to retain the France international’s services, a failure to agree a deal with PSG opened the door for a move elsewhere. Having failed to lure Kolo Muani to London in the winter, on summer deadline day Spurs secured their man.

Eberechi Eze and Arsenal, a marriage made in N7. He is exactly the player they need, a dribbler with creative spark who can break down the most stubborn defences; they are the club he most desires, able to fulfil his ambition to challenge for the Premier League and Champions League, and the one club who can soothe the scars of his youth.

Eze came close to signing for Tottenham this week but if he was ever to leave Selhurst Park, Arsenal always felt like the rightful home for his peak years. Yet there remains a question about his place under Mikel Arteta and exactly where he fits in to the team. Tottenham would have built the side around Eze’s creativity in the No 10 role, but he will have to carve out his own space in an Arsenal squad brimming with talent.

Ilkay Gundogan has left Manchester City for the second time in three years after agreeing to move to Turkish club Galatasaray on a free transfer.

Gundogan joined the club for the first time in 2016 where he featured 188 times and famously led the team in their treble winning season of 2022/23 before saying an emotional goodbye and leaving the club to join Barcelona.

A year later he returned to City and made a further 33 appearances for the club but has not featured at all in any of City’s three Premier League matches this year amid a squad rebuild under Pep Guardiola.

Despite winning the league at a canter last season, Liverpool quickly identified a recognised number nine as their main summer target, with Darwin Nunez failing last term before his move to Al-Hilal.

But while the arrival of Alexander Isak will excite Liverpool fans, it does bring up questions over the signing of Hugo Ekitike, who plays in the same centre forward position as the Sweden striker but will surely be moved to accommodate him.

Saudi Pro League (SPL) clubs could be scaling back their free-spending ways, and it could have wider implications for the transfer market as a whole.

SPL clubs have spent more than $1.5billion since its 2023 boom, which included the prized capture of Cristiano Ronaldo that paved the way for players to move to Saudi Arabia on wages European clubs could not compete with.

But sky-rocketing transfer fees and eye-watering salary packages, which once sounded the death knell for the Chinese Super League, may be a thing of the past after new regulations were announced by the Saudi Ministry of Sport on July 1.

For those who can’t get enough of transfer action... the next transfer window comes in January. The window opens on Thursday, 1 January and closes on Monday, 2 February at 7pm GMT.