Summary: Another emotional and tortuous summer transfer window has closed in the Premier League, but only now has the process of assessing the collateral damage and examining the rubble begun and helping us do just that is Times football journalist Oliver Kay, who helps us gauge the biggest shorelines to emerge and some of the highlights and lowlights that bear further study. We begin this process no other place but Manchester United where the summer has been a back and forth series of interlocking questions that always had an answer in Marouane Fellaini but went on a long and circuitous detour to finally reach that destination at a higher cost. We break down that situation in terms of the deals that went south, whether Mezut Ozil was made available one more time late and who exactly should be held accountable for clear failures to acquire the top names that David Moyes would have preferred to find in his midfield come September. We also look at the splash that was the aforementioned Mezut Ozil who was the source of the biggest splash on deadline day, but the clear winner was Everton Football Club who made money in this market and appear to look even stronger on paper now with arrivals such as Romelu Lukaku, Gareth Barry and James McCarthy. We also examine the moves by Liverpool and Tottenham to evaluate whether their moves have bearing on the chase for top four and whether Chelsea has enough in the first year of Jose Mourinho Redux to make an assault on either Manchester club - most notably - Manchester City where the roster looks the strongest and the club appears to be drama-free of all the off-the-pitch distractions with Manuel Pellegrini pulling the strings. We close on the matter of two summer disasters built largely upon mistakes of the past season at Sunderland and Newcastle where there was too little thought and almost no logic in their campaigns and we have one last bonus look at the departure of Gareth Bale for Real Madrid to assess what his big challenges will be in finding success at the Santiago Bernabéu.
