Premier League clubs have recorded a transfer window profit for the first time – despite spending reaching a six-year January high of \u00a3215m.<\/p>\n
Southampton and Burnley made late deadline-day deals, while Odion Ighalo moved from Watford to China for \u00a320m.<\/p>\n
Saints paid about \u00a314m for Napoli’s Manolo Gabbiadini, and the Clarets brought in Robbie Brady for up to \u00a313m.<\/p>\n
However, top-flight sides brought in \u00a340m more than they paid out, according to finance analysts Deloitte.<\/p>\n
Premier League teams have spent a record \u00a31.38bn on transfers in the 2016-17 season, after a summer outlay of \u00a31.165bn.<\/p>\n
Spending in January 2017 is the second highest – behind the record mark of \u00a3225m six years ago – and dwarfs the \u00a335m spent in the first January transfer window in 2003.<\/p>\n
While the window is now closed for the major European leagues, there could still be departures as big-spending China has an official deadline of 28 February.<\/p>\n
The main deadline-day deals<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadline-day sales were led by Nigeria striker Ighalo, 27, moving to Chinese Super League club Changchun Yatai.<\/p>\n Burnley were one of the busier sides, recruiting 25-year-old Republic of Ireland international Brady from Norwich for a club-record fee having earlier snapped up another midfielder, Ashley Westwood, from Aston Villa.<\/p>\n Southampton bolstered their attacking options by bringing in Gabbiadini, 25, while Crystal Palace secured Liverpool centre-back Mamadou Sakho on loan and signed Serbia midfielder Luka Milivojevic from Greek side Olympiakos.<\/p>\n Swansea City signed Aston Villa forward Jordan Ayew in a swap deal that saw Wales defender Neil Taylor go the other way.<\/p>\n Several mooted moves did not go through on a relatively low-key day, with Celtic keeper Craig Gordon and striker Moussa Dembele staying with the Scottish champions despite reported interest from Chelsea.<\/p>\n Sunderland, thwarted in their attempts to sign forward Leonardo Ulloa from Premier League champions Leicester City, had a bid of about \u00a312m rejected by Southampton for forward Jay Rodriguez.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Premier League clubs have recorded a transfer window profit for the first time – despite spending reaching a six-year January high of \u00a3215m. Southampton and Burnley made late deadline-day deals, while Odion Ighalo moved from Watford to China for \u00a320m. Saints paid about \u00a314m for Napoli’s Manolo Gabbiadini, and the Clarets brought in Robbie Brady […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}