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Hello and welcome to the last three months of the window being open,

brought you the news before it became news.

We hope you've enjoyed that because, of course, the window has slammed shut on all areas of Europe now after yesterday's deadline day passed.

And we're going to bring you up to date with all the concluded deals as well as analysis.

Starting with Duncan Castles, my normal and trusted friend and

colleague who's returned from his butterfly retreat to rejoin us this week.

I'm going to start with a kind of round up, Duncan, of what's been spent in the course of top

five leagues and how it differs and contrasts to other years. Now, you've come up

with some interesting facts, Duncan, regarding the leagues outside of the Premier League that is,

so the top four other of the five leagues and those spending, they have committed in terms of

it being the biggest spend and record

spends in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, while PL spending in England declined on net terms.

And of course, that window closed some two and a half weeks before yesterday's deadline in Europe.

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