Deadline day: the moves that shaped the window

How the day unfolded

Deadline day rarely disappoints, and this window's final hours delivered the full script: medicals at midnight, private jets scrambled and at least one deal announced with minutes to spare.

The headline move was a statement signing that had been rumoured for months, finally completed in the last hour of the window. Around it, a cascade of loans and late purchases rearranged the balance of power in three different leagues.

For clubs, the day was a reminder of the market's new economics — with the biggest spenders increasingly looking beyond Europe for value, and agents describing the final hours as the most frenetic in years.

• The window's biggest fee was agreed with under an hour to go
• A record number of loan moves completed on deadline day
• Three leagues saw their transfer records broken

The last hour is where seasons are saved — and sometimes where they are lost.