Greatest January Window Transfers! This season it feels more imperative than ever for sides to take that gamble to introduce a second wind especially amongst the bigger clubs across Europe. We look at the most transformative mid season signings of all time… A THREAD 🧵

The first impressions of Vidic and Evra were not positive in the slightest. Team mates felt they were out of their depth, both players felt out of their depth and they were being looked at as poster boys for not making mid season transfers but in hindsight this allowed them a

Someone who didn’t need a period of adaptation was Virgil Van Dijk. Already catching the eye of all the elite premier league sides it was a case of who was the big defensive signing that most warranted the big fee… Harry Maguire or Van Dijk. Seems ridiculous in hindsight that

Luis Suarez… What is crazy is that Suarez and Andy Carroll were signed in the same window and they paid £13m more for the Geordie who received more fanfare than the Uruguayan who would go on to become the World’s leading striker. He was one of Liverpool's best players during

Sometimes you might not feel the immediate impact of a mid season signing but by getting there first, you’re beating the pack and setting yourself up for the following season. On 2 February 2015, Dele Alli signed for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur in the last hours of the

Bruno Fernandes became the MVP of Manchester United within half a season of arriving there, talk about an instant impact. Bruno won multiple club and Premier League awards, including Premier League Player of the Month and Goal of the Month, becoming the first player to win both

Not an instant hit but someone who went on to become his generation’s greatest left back… Marcelo joined Real Madrid during the January transfer window in 2007. On his arrival, club President Ramón Calderón said, "He is an important signing for us. He is a young player who will

Not a great start to his Juventus career but very rapidly became a mainstay for the Old Lady. Barzagli came in January and his first six months with the Bianconeri coincided with the second half of a terribly disappointing 2010–11 campaign under Luigi Delneri, which saw the club

In conclusion too often teams seem unwilling to part with the cash in January. In this increasingly automated world, teams seem reluctant to bring a player in with no preseason or prior knowledge of the teams patterns of play and it is seen as an inefficient means of recruiting a

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