Well, the transfer dealine for teams to buy and sell new players have passed, and it turned out to be an amazing day of wheeling and dealing!
The day started out with Machester City FC being bought by a consortium including the Abu Dhabi royal family who bought with them a rumoured war chest of 1 TRILLION dollars. MCFC’s manager was on the golf course when he learned of this, and probably missed his putt when he was told that he had an umlimited budget to spend, but only 12 hours to do it!
So, the Man City bods put in bidgs for the worlds finest players – Thierry Henry, Berbatov, Mario Gomez, David Villa, and of course a Mr Robson de Souza, better known as Robinho – a player who Chelsea FC had been courting all summer, and were so convinced that they were going to sign, that they had started selling Robinho shirts in the Chelsea shop!
At the same time, Spurs had agreed a £34 million fee with Man City for Dimitar Berbatov and the striker flew up to Manchester – where he was picked up not by Man City, but by Alex Ferguson in his Bentley and driven to Manchester *Uniteds* ground, where he undertook a medical, and then signed, despite Spurs mainitaining that they had not given the player permission to talk to United.
Most suprising move of the days was Tyrone Mears’ move to Marseille. To put this into context, young Tyrone plays as a not-very-amazing full back playing for Derby County in the Championship, which is one division below the Premiership. Marseille however are the largest and most successful club in France, the only French club to win the UEFA Champions League, 10 French Cup titles, 8 French Championship titles, and countless other trophies. In fact the move is so bizarre that it was reported;
“The story gained a bizarre twist when it was also reported this morning that Mears had had to climb through a window and crawl past manager Paul Jewell’s office at Derby’s training ground to collect his boots before sneaking away to meet Marseille officials.” (from the Guardian newspaper)
Either they have spotted something in Tyrone that no-one else has, or they need someone to polish all those trophies….
Unluckiest player in the transfer window was Shaun Wright-Philips. The tricky winger left Chelsea only 10 days ago as he was worried that with the impending signing of Robinho, he wouldnt get a game. So he signed for Man City, played at the weekend and scored two goals. He must have thought that his Chelsea nightmare had ended (where he made only 82 appearances in 4 years and most of them as substitute), and that he was going to be a regular on the right for Man City.
Imagine his little face when he found out that Robinho hadnt gone to Chelsea at all, but had instead signed for a British transfer record of £32 million pounds, for…..Man City. Which means that little Shaun will probably still be warming the bench this season 
Anyway, here are the movers and shakers for the Premiership. You may want to transfer some of these into your team. Or not, as you see fit.
In
Blackburn (Bunn)
Everton (Fellaini, Saha, Nash)
Hull (Cousin)
Liverpool (Flora, Gulacsi, Riera)
Man City (Robinho)
Man Utd (Berbatov)
Newcastle (Gonzalez, Xisco)
Portsmouth (Belhadj)
Sunderland (McCartney)
Stoke (Higginbotham, Soares, Tonge)
Tottenham (Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Campbell)
West Brom (Donk)
out
Bolton (Dzemaili)
Fulham (Zakuani, John, Smertin)
Liverpool (Finnan, Voronin)
Man City (Corluka, Vidal)
Man Utd (Saha, Campbell)
Portsmouth (Cranie, Christophe)
Sunderland (Higginbotham)
Stoke (Parkin), Tottenham (Berbatov)
West Ham (McCartney)
Wigan (Bouaouzan, Nash, Sibierski)