The juggernaut was captured in one three-month tracking shot, but this summer market told us something deeper – about football and the nation
By the time the clock hit 7.30pm the main presenter on Monday’s Sky Sports Window Slam Countdown looked not just frazzled, but oddly heroic, like a man who has ingested a potentially fatal overdose of late-breaking excitement and is now being encouraged to keep talking in a low, dogged voice about massive deals and unexpected snags just to keep himself awake until the paramedics arrive.
There was something of the Situation Room about the whole tableau, five nobly dishevelled talking heads leaning in around the curved tables, lists of names earnestly reeled off. Eberechi Eze. Randal Kolo Muani. We’re hearing that Coventry has fallen. In the bottom corner of the screen a picture of Marc Guéhi would flash up now and then reproachfully, Guéhi wearing a strange, lost smile as though he has in fact died. And below it all the countdown clock replaced with the simple end‑of‑days message: WINDOW CLOSED.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/02/tantrum-transfers-record-fees-greatest-transfer-window-premier-league under the title “Tantrum transfers, hysteria and endless cash – but who won the transfer window? | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
