Deadline day was the dampest of squibs after the record-breaking frenzy at the end of the January 2011 transfer window
Football’s Twitter crowds drummed their global fingers in boredom towards the close of the January 2015 transfer window, but while there was no last-day rush for thrill-seekers, clubs’ spending finally reached around £130m, fairly normal for this time of year. The perception of it being particularly quiet is partly due to the hazy memory of January as a time of frenzy which stretches back four years now, to the barminess of 2011.
That final day, when Chelsea signed Fernando Torres for £50m from Liverpool, thereby releasing the famous helicopter to buzz Andy Carroll to Anfield from Newcastle for the forever extraordinary £35m, now prompts red faces all round. Chelsea made the headline signing this deadline day, paying a significant £23.3m for the Colombian winger Juan Cuadrado, but maintained their recently minted practice of lucrative selling by moving André Schürrle to the Bundesliga’s upwardly mobile Wolfsburg for £24m and Ryan Bertrand to Southampton for another £10m.
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