While certain deals have grabbed the headlines, some big names have quietly been on the move and some shrewd business has been done
It has been another record-breaking summer of spending in the transfer market, with Premier League’s outlay alone incredibly surpassing the £2.5 billion ($3.4bn) mark. And there is still the ever-frantic deadline day to come.
Plenty of big names have been on the move, with Trent Alexander-Arnold heading to Real Madrid, Florian Wirtz swapping Bayer Leverkusen for Liverpool in a huge £116 million ($156m) deal and Viktor Gyokeres choosing Arsenal after a drawn-out transfer saga at Sporting CP.
But what about the deals that have gone under the radar but have helped to make up those astonishing numbers? In a record-breaking summer, here are 20 transfers you might have missed…