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I don't even know where to begin with Chelsea.

I think it's the perfect appointment for the squad they've got at their disposal.

I think it's a great job for Sean Daesh to get. I think the bigger surprise was not having a direct replacement to come in for him. I think we all expected that. Their spend, this window makes Roman look like quite a miserly figure in the boardroom.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview.

Coming up, we're going to look ahead to Sean Deich beginning his reign at Everton as Arsenal

head to Gooderson Park, Newcastle-take-on-West Ham and Manchester City begin life without

Jow Cancelo, away to Tottenham, who are themselves, without Antonio Conte.

That's all to come here on the weekend preview.

Before we get into the action, the January transfer window slammed shut this week.

I'm going to ask you each who you think were the winners and who you think were the losers

from January.

Rich, I'm going to come to you first.

Your winner and your loser, please. My winner, I'm going to go with Arsenal, getting in the

likes of Troussard on George, you know, two proven Premier League players, players who've excelled

at this level. You know, Trotsard gives them flexibility and versatility, which you can play out wide. You can play wingback as well. I can also play through the middle. And, you know, we all know Georgina's quality on the ball, especially when Arsenal trying to see out games as well. And the losers, it's not looking good up at Merseyside, is it? Liverpool didn't really strengthen, but I mean, of course, Everton.

You have to look at them because, you know, okay, they got a new manager in, but no new signings. Looking very, very, very bleak up there. And, you know, we really missed a big opportunity to freshen things up. So, yeah, things are not looking great for them at all. So my winners are Arsenal and my losers are Everton. Hard to disagree with either of those answers, to be honest. Did see on the Athletic this morning that Andre Ayu may well end up in Merseyside at Everton. Steve, do you disagree with Rich? No, like him, I had those two written down, but I just think, I'll mention Brighton for keeping Casado and having all their staff picked whether it be on the pitch or off the pitch they're bought in what three teenagers

they're bound to be worth a hundred billion pounds in about two years time so it's just them

just have been a really well-run club and I'm just interested to see how those new signings just

progress whether they go out and loan or or hit the Premier League it's just a very good football club, isn't it? Yeah, so I've to say, we'll be talking about those players this time next year. I suspect, George, finally, I'll come to you. Are you deviating from the other two? No, my winners of the summer window, Everton, I think, have to be the losers of this window. But I still do think that under a now very capable manager will probably look back on Everton's summer business has been better than the next time. Let it go, George. No chance. You've got to let that go. It's a mid-table squad. I'm telling you'll see what dice she does with it. We'll talk about it later. in terms of winners. I mean, I do think there's a fair chance that at least won

and maybe both of these teams will be playing in the championship next season. Adelaida. In terms of winners, I mean, I do think there's a fair chance that at least

won and maybe both of these teams will be playing in the championship next season. And I'm not

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