Transfer window
*Hull sign Everton striker Nikica Jelavic
*Chelsea complete £21m deal to sign former Blues midfielder Nemanja Matic from Benfica on a five-and-a-half-year deal
*Fulham forward Bryan Ruiz shipped out to PSV on loan
*Aston Villa sign Wigan striker Grant Holt on loan
*Stoke take Man City striker John Guidetti on loan for the remainder of the 2013/14 season and sign Aston Villa’s Stephen Ireland on a permanent deal
Whether clubs are primed to contest the title race, battle over European places or fight tooth and nail to avoid the drop, the winter transfer window is their chance to shuffle the squad.
Clubs notoriously play it rather cagey in the early part of the window. But as soon as a couple of big deals happen later in the window, it often sparks a mad scramble as clubs look to bolster their squads at knockdown prices.
Of course, January is also a time out-of-favour players agitate for a move away — especially in a World Cup year — or clubs look to ditch high earners.
So, keep track of all the latest transfers this month with our club-by-club guide…
ARSENAL
IN
NONE
OUT
Chuba Akpom (Brentford, loan)
ASTON VILLA
IN
Grant Holt (Wigan, loan)
OUT
Stephen Ireland (Stoke, free transfer)
CARDIFF
IN
Magnus Wolff Eikrem (Heerenveen, £2m), Mats Moller Daehli (Molde, undisclosed)
OUT
Rudy Gestede (Blackburn, undisclosed), Filip Kiss (Ross County, loan), Nicky Maynard (Wigan, loan)
CHELSEA
IN
Bertrand Traore (Association Jeunes Espoirs De Bobo-Dioulasso, undisclosed), Nemanja Matic (Benfica, £21m)
OUT
Bertrand Traore (Vitesse Arnhem, loan), Kevin de Bruyne (Wolfsburg, £17m)
CRYSTAL PALACE
IN
NONE
OUTJason Banton (Plymouth, free), Jimmy Kebe (Leeds, loan)
EVERTON
IN
Aiden McGeady (Spartak Moscow, undisclosed)
OUT
Nikica Jelavic (Hull, undisclosed)
FULHAM
IN
Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders, loan)
OUT
Bryan Ruiz (PSV, loan)
HULL
IN
Nikica Jelavic (Everton, undisclosed)
OUT
Tom Cairney (Blackburn, £500,000), Conor Townsend (Carlisle, loan), Eldin Jakupovic (Leyton Orient, loan), Cameron Stewart (Leeds, loan)
LIVERPOOL
IN
NONE
OUT
Adam Morgan (Yeovil, free)
MANCHESTER CITY
IN
NONE
OUT
John Guidetti (Stoke, loan)
MANCHESTER UNITED
IN
NONE
OUT
NONE
NEWCASTLE
IN
NONE
OUT
Jonas Gutierrez (Norwich, loan)
NORWICH
IN
Jonas Gutierrez (Newcastle, loan)
OUT
NONE
SOUTHAMPTON
IN
NONE
OUT
NONE
STOKE
IN
John Guidetti (Man City, loan), Stephen Ireland (Aston Villa, free transfer)
OUT
Brek Shea (Barnsley, loan), Jamie Ness (Leyton Orient, loan)
SUNDERLAND
IN
Marcos Alonso (Fiorentina, loan)
OUT
Mikael Mandron (Fleetwood, loan), Ji Dong-won (Ausburg, undisclosed)
SWANSEA
IN
NONE
OUT
Alan Tate (Aberdeen, loan)
TOTTENHAM
IN
NONE
OUT
Jermain Defoe (Toronto, £6m), Simon Dawkins (Derby, undisclosed), Shaquile Coulthirst (Leyton Orient, loan), Jon Obika (Brighton, loan)
WEST BROMWICH ALBION
IN
NONE
OUT
Lee Camp (Bournemouth, free)
WEST HAM
IN
Roger Johnson (Wolves, loan)
OUT
NONE
—Daily Mail
