Premier League transfer window: Ranking each club from 'Winners' to 'What were they thinking?'

The January transfer window is shut and Premier League clubs must now make do with what they've got until the end of the season.

It was a record-breaking transfer window in England.

More than £275 million was spent on deadline day itself with the grand total spent by the 20 clubs in January around £815 million.

Does each club now have the squad to finish the season strongly and meet their objectives?

While we can't predict the future, we're more than happy to give our opinion on everything that happened in the transfer market in January.

Therefore, we've decided to rank every Premier League club's January transfer window using Tiermaker.

Some clubs (Chelsea) spent almost £300 million last month while others (Everton) failed to make a single signing.

So, without further ado, here is our ranking of every Premier League club's January transfer window from 'What were they thinking?' to 'Winners'.

What were they thinking?

Everton

Everton were the only Premier League club not to sign anyone in January - well, apart from a new manager. Not ideal when you're sitting in the relegation zone. They also lost the talented Anthony Gordon - although getting £45 million from Newcastle for him can be seen as good business.

Poor window

Liverpool
Manchester City
Newcastle

Liverpool only added Cody Gakpo to their squad for £45 million but failed to do any further business - namely in midfield. Will their current players have enough to see them finish top four? We don't think so...

Man City are trailing Arsenal in the title race and a statement signing could have given them the impetus they really need. Instead, only youngster Maximo Perrone arrived from Velez Sarsfield, while they surprisingly offloaded Joao Cancelo.

Newcastle have the golden opportunity to finish in the top four this season and we were a little surprised they didn't exert their authority in the transfer window by strengthening even further. Okay, they did sign Gordon for £45 million but it's not a signing that has got us too excited.

Average

Manchester United
Aston Villa
Brentford
Brighton
Crystal Palace
Fulham
West Ham

For seven Premier League clubs, it was a pretty average transfer window.

Man Utd added Wout Weghorst and Marcel Sabitzer in loan deals. Savvy and practical.

Villa brought in left-back Alex Moreno from Real Betis for £13 million but allowed Danny Ings to join West Ham for a similar fee.

Brentford had very few incomings, their loan signing of Kevin Schade from Freiburg was about as exciting as it got. They didn't lose any players of note, though.

It was a sad goodbye to Leandro Trossard for Brighton, who sold the Belgian to Arsenal for a respectable £27 million. They also kept hold of Moises Caicedo which can be seen as a win. Their biggest arrival was 19-year-old Yasin Ayari from AIK Solna.

Palace brought in two young midfielders in Naouirou Ahamada and Albert Sambi Lokonga without selling any first-team players.

Sasa Lukic was signed by Fulham for £8 million, who also loaned Cedric from Arsenal.

West Ham's £15 million signing of Ings may give them the firepower to escape the relegation battle while they also signed young Brazilian, Luizao, from Sao Paulo. But they lost the iconic Crag Dawson to Wolves.

Improved

Arsenal
Bournemouth
Nottingham Forest
Tottenham
Wolves

Arsenal fans will have wished their club had signed either Mykhailo Mudryk or Caicedo during the January transfer window. But they had to settle for Trossard, Jorginho and Jakub Kiwior. Not perfect but certainly not disastrous.

Bournemouth knew they needed to improve if they want to avoid relegation this season. And they appear to have done just that with the signings of Dango Ouattara for £20 million, Antoine Semenyo for £10.5 million and Illia Zabarnyi for £24 million amongst others.

Forest were at it again in the transfer window as they signed a further six players. That takes their tally to 28 signings in a single season! This time around, they've signed Danilo and Gustavo Scarpa from Palmeiras. They've loaned Chris Wood and Keylor Navas and purchased Felipe and Jonjo Shelvey. Having not sold anyone, it's impossible to say Forest haven't improved.

Have Spurs improved? Yes. Is it enough to save their season? We'll see. Arnaut Danjuma and Pedro Porro have both arrived.

As well as picking up Dawson from West Ham, Wolves brought in Matheus Cunha from Atletico Madrid and Pablo Sarabia from Paris Saint-Germain. Mario Lemina and Joao Gomes have also arrived.

Great window

Leicester
Leeds
Southampton

Victor Kristiansen, Tete and Harry Souttar all look like solid signings for Leicester as they look to move away from the relegation zone for the remainder of the 2002/23 season.

That's also the ambition of Leeds who splashed £35.5 million on 20-year-old striker Georginio Rutter from Hoffenheim. Max Wober also arrived for £11 million from Red Bull Salzburg, while Weston McKennie has joined on loan from Juventus.

Southampton sit rock bottom of the Premier League table so they knew they had to make moves in the January transfer window. They did just that with the signings of Kamaldeen Sulemana (£22m), Paul Onuachu (£18m), Carlos Alcaraz (£12m) and Mislav Orsic (£8m).

Winners

Chelsea

Obviously.

Chelsea have now spent more than £500 million on transfers this season. In January, they added Enzo Fernandez for £106.8 million, Mudryk for £88.5 million, Benoit Badiashile for £35 million, Noni Madueke for £29 million and Malo Gusto for £26.3 million. Oh, as well as David Fofana, Andrey Santos and Joao Felix on loan.

That's not to say every signing is going to be a huge success at Chelsea but Mudryk already looks incredibly exciting and we all saw what Fernandez is capable of at the World Cup.

Final rankings

There we have it. Every Premier League's January transfer window ranked.

It was a window dominated by Chelsea splashing the cash once again while rivals watched on in jealously.

However, clubs like Leicester, Leeds and Southampton will enter February with encouragement believing they now have the squad to escape relegation.

But at the other end, Everton supporters must be hoping the arrival of Sean Dyche has more of an impact than any new signing possibly could - because they didn't sign any.

Their Merseyside rivals aren't too impressed with their lack of business either.

Of course, it will be a lot easier to judge each club's transfer dealings come the end of the season when we've seen the new signings in action.