Transfer deadline day recap: Isak to Liverpool and Donnarumma City-bound

The summertime transportation model successful Europe closed connected Monday with the English Premier League dominating the large sanction moves.

The adjacent clip that clubs connected the continent whitethorn transportation players volition beryllium erstwhile the model reopens for a period successful January.

Al Jazeera Sport takes a look astatine the apical talking points from the last time of the summertime window:

Alexander Isak – Newcastle to Liverpool

Isak’s determination to Liverpool was the biggest transportation of the summertime successful presumption of finances and drama.

The 25-year-old’s 125-million-pound ($167.4m) move is simply a British grounds transportation fee, beating the 107 cardinal pounds ($143.3m) that Chelsea paid Benfica for Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez successful 2023.

Alexander Isak celebrates with the League Cup trophy aft Newcastle United bushed Liverpool successful the last successful March 2025 [Andrew Couldridge/Reuters]

The information that the determination didn’t travel until the last time of the model capped what had already been a stressful play for each of the parties involved.

The Swedish planetary made nary concealed of his tendency to permission Newcastle and ended up grooming unsocial with erstwhile nine Real Sociedad, adjacent earlier criticising his nine connected societal media for breaking promises.

Liverpool had already splashed retired a nine grounds 100 cardinal pounds ($133.9m) for midfielder Florian Wirtz this summer. The woody could emergence to 116 cardinal pounds ($156m) depending connected appearances.

Senne Lammens – Royal Antwerp to Man Utd

Manchester United’s goalkeeping woes person been their changeless absorption successful a turbulent play for the fallen giants since David De Gea near the nine successful 2023.

So hopeless had the concern go that determination were adjacent rumours the 34-year-old erstwhile Spanish planetary could beryllium brought backmost to Old Trafford from Fiorentina.

Andre Onana was trusted with the gloves by then-manager Erik 10 Hag, but the Cameroonian stopper has been prone to costly mistakes.

Onana mislaid his spot successful extremity to his understudy Altay Bayindir, but helium excessively has failed to impress, peculiarly in the season-opening decision to Arsenal.

Senne Lammens started his vocation with Club Brugge earlier joining different Belgian club, Royal Antwerp, successful 2023 [Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]

The accomplishment of Lammens for 18.1 cardinal pounds ($24.2m) is thing of a gamble for United, who had appeared acceptable to motion Argentina’s World Cup-winning keeper Emiliano Martinez.

Lammens has yet to marque his planetary debut for Belgium, but the 193cm (6ft-4-inch) stopper is seen arsenic a semipermanent solution alternatively than the 32-year-old Martinez.

United request stableness astatine the back, however, and the spotlight volition beryllium heavy connected Lammens arsenic helium tries to find his footing successful the hustle and bustle of the English apical flight.

Yoane Wissa – Brentford to Newcastle

Softening the nonaccomplishment of Isak to Liverpool for Newcastle and their fans is the accomplishment of Wissa from Brentford for 55 cardinal pounds ($73.7m).

The Democratic Republic of the Congo planetary scored 19 Premier League goals past play and took his full for the nine since his 2021 accomplishment to 49 goals successful 149 appearances.

Yoane Wissa had posted connected societal media connected August 31, 2025, astir his tendency to permission Brentford [David Klein/Reuters]

Wissa, overmuch similar Isak, was progressive successful a nationalist airing of his feelings erstwhile helium posted connected societal media connected Sunday astir his tendency to permission the West Londoners.

Now the 28-year-old indispensable crook his attraction to covering the 27 goals Isak scored successful 42 appearances past play astatine Newcastle.

Marc Guehi – Liverpool a no-go for Palace defender

It wasn’t lone the confirmed transfers that made headlines connected the last time of the model but besides the deals that collapsed.

Top of those was Liverpool’s prolonged courting of Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi.

Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi lifts the trophy arsenic helium celebrates with teammates aft winning the FA Community Shield against Liverpool past period [Matthew Childs/Reuters]

The 25-year-old England planetary had agelong been linked with a determination to Anfield, possibly longer than Isak, and adjacent made it arsenic acold arsenic a Monday aesculapian connected Merseyside.

Palace’s nonaccomplishment to motion a replacement for the England planetary meant the transportation fell done successful the last hours of the window, which volition undoubtedly travel arsenic a stroke to Guehi fixed the precocious signifier of the deal.

Ederson, Donnarumma, Antony, Hojlund, Sancho and Jackson permission it late

Isak and Guehi weren’t the lone semipermanent transportation targets sweating connected the last time of the window. A fig of different rumoured moves besides yet got implicit the line.

Ederson’s autumn from grace astatine Manchester City resulted successful the 32-year-old keeper signing with Turkiye’s Fenerbahce for 12.1 cardinal pounds ($16.2m).

It brought to an extremity his eight-year enactment astatine Etihad Stadium, wherever helium was an integral portion of the nine winning an unprecedented 4 Premier League titles successful a enactment and the unsocial five-trophy twelvemonth of 2023.

Replacing the Brazilian is Gianluigi Donnarumma, again a astonishing departure from Paris Saint-Germain, wherever helium helped the French giants to the Champions League trophy arsenic portion of their archetypal treble past season.

The Italian has signed a five-year woody with City.

Gianluigi Donnarumma celebrates with the Champions League trophy aft beating Inter Milan with Paris Saint-Germain successful past season’s last [Angelika Warmuth/Reuters]

A trio of Manchester United players were each connected their mode retired of Old Trafford. Brazil winger Antony ended his uncomfortable clip with the nine by signing permanently for Real Betis aft having been loaned to the Spanish nine past season.

Rasmus Hojlund is connected his mode to Napoli connected indebtedness aft the Danish striker struggled for goals portion starring the enactment for United past season. And Jadon Sancho’s exile astatine Old Trafford is implicit for now. The erstwhile England winger has joined Aston Villa connected loan, arsenic has United’s Swedish defender Victor Lindelof.

Another expected departure that was near to the past infinitesimal was Nicolas Jackson’s determination to Bayern Munich.

The on-off determination has resulted successful the Senegal planetary joining connected indebtedness but with Bayern obliged to wage 56.2 cardinal pounds ($75.3m) for the 24-year-old.

Personal presumption had been agreed connected a five-year woody for Jackson, but an wounded to Chelsea teammate Liam Delap resulted successful the West London nine stalling connected the imperishable woody owed to concerns of a deficiency of numbers successful their attack.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies