Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool: Premier League transfer window winners and losers

Chelsea suffered a dramatic late blow on transfer deadline day when Everton midfielder Ross Barkley rejected a move to the Premier League champions after travelling to their training ground for a medical.

Here are some of the winners and losers of the 2017-18 English Premier League transfer market:

Chelsea - Losers

On a day of frenetic spending that took the Premier League total to a record far above one billion pounds ($1.29 billion), Antonio Conte's side also missed out on two of their other targets - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Fernando Llorente.

England midfielder Oxlade-Chamberlain signed for Liverpool and Spaniard Llorente joined Tottenham Hotspur in deals worth 35 million pounds and 12 million pounds respectively. But the champions still managed some business, paying Torino 23 million pounds for defender Davide Zappacosta and then pushing through a late deal for Danny Drinkwater.

Special dispensation was requested from the FA to register Leicester City's midfielder after the official deadline, one of several deals due to come through late. However welcome those signings will be for Chelsea, they may not compensate for the snub delivered by England midfielder Barkley who arrived at their Cobham training ground late on Thursday only to turn round and head back north.

Manchester United - Winners

Gareth Bale and Ivan Perisic were linked and United opted against completing deals for players of lesser quality. That said the club can be pretty satisfied with their transfer market business.

Nemanja Matic looks a steal at £40 million and not only provides balance to the team but also liberates Paul Pogba to influence the game further forward.

Romelu Lukaku has started the campaign in good goal-scoring form and looks to the manor born. He will be among the Premier League’s leading marksmen at the end of the season and should help stitch together Jose Mourinho’s attacks.

Everton - Losers

Everton's majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri told Sky Sports Barkley had turned up at the west London club's Cobham training base only to undergo a dramatic change of heart as the transfer deadline clock ticked down.

"The two clubs agreed a deal of 35 million pounds, I think personal terms were agreed and after medical (sic) we heard from Paul Martin, Ross Barkley's agent, that he had changed his mind," said Moshiri. He added that Barkley, who is in the final year of his contract at Everton, wanted to "reconsider his position" in the January transfer window. "It was a big surprise but this is football," Moshiri said.

The BBC later quoted a source close to 23-year-old Barclay saying the midfielder did not have a medical and wanted to make a decision about his future when he was fully fit. He has been sidelined with a hamstring injury after a hernia operation.

The signings of Pickford, Michael Keane and Davy Klaassen give Everton replacements for Joel Robles, who was never good enough, John Stones, who wasn’t replaced last season, and Gareth Barry.

The rest of their business makes less sense. Even for £90m, the sale of Romelu Lukaku to Manchester United with Wayne Rooney coming the other way is baffling. Lukaku had outgrown his surroundings and had to go but it’s hard to see what Rooney, 32 in October and on bigger wages, will bring in the long-term to Everton.

Arsenal - Losers

Alexis Sanchez was another player staying put, although for different reasons, as Arsenal turned down a 60 million pounds bid from Manchester City after failing to secure his potential replacement, Monaco's Thomas Lemar, despite a 92 million pounds bid reportedly being accepted by the French club.

British media speculated that the France winger would have preferred a switch to Liverpool, who were reported to have made their own bid, a possible indication that Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho could be en route from Anfield to Barcelona. Although that deal looks unlikely, the transfer window in Spain does not close until Friday.

Arsenal failed to secure a suitable replacement with time having run out on a deal for Thomas Lemar on deadline day meaning Sanchez was denied his wish of again linking up with Pep Guardiola at Manchester City. Alexis is out of contract next summer but Arsenal are content to take the £60m hit when he leaves for free.

Arsene Wenger is now left with a dissatisfied player whose body language and general demeanour have betrayed his frustration at being stuck at an underperforming club who can't even give him Champions League football.

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Liverpool failed to lure central defender Virgil van Dijk from Southampton, who refused to sell despite a high-profile transfer request which led to the Dutch international's exclusion from first team training. But the Merseyside club did agree a fee to sell French defender Mamadou Sakho to Crystal Palace for 24 million pounds.

West Bromwich Albion's Jonny Evans is also staying put despite being linked with a move to Arsenal or Manchester City, who still ended up as the window's top spenders after lavishing in excess of 200 million pounds on players.

Spurs are traditionally busy on deadline day and completed the signing of Llorente from Swansea and paid PSG 23 million pounds for Ivorian Serge Aurier. Swansea re-signed striker Wilfried Bony from Manchester City and, in one of the day's surprises, brought in Portugal midfielder Renato Sanches on loan from Bayern Munich.

Another Portugal Euro 2016 winner, Adrien Silva, was due to join Leicester in a late deal with the Foxes also signing Austria's Aleksandar Dragovic from Bayer Leverkusen. Every Premier League club brought in at least two players in the window, with Watford and promoted Huddersfield Town the busiest teams with each making 13 signings.

Brighton & Hove Albion left it late to bring in goalkeeper Tim Krul on loan from Newcastle United and defender Ezequiel Schelotto from Inter Milan.

France defender Mamadou Sakho joined Crystal Palace from Liverpool on a four-year deal, the club said on Friday. The deal for centre-back Sakho, who spent the last season on loan at Selhurst Park and played eight games for Palace, was worth about 26 million pounds ($33.65 million), British media reported.

(Inputs from Reuters)