Winners
Jose Mourinho
It is fair to say the Chelsea boss was never totally convinced by Andre Schurrle and so being able to replace the World Cup winner with Juan Cuadrado will leave the Special One beaming from ear to ear.
Schurrle returns to the Bundesliga, where he enjoyed four impressive seasons with Mainz and Bayer Leverkusen, while Cuadrado is set to slot in on the right-hand side of Chelsea's attacking trio behind Diego Costa.
The deadline-beating arrival of MK Dons' highly rated midfielder Dele Ali was not the best bit of news Spurs fans got this window as Harry Kane put pen to paper on a bumper deal.
The fans' favourite is now under contract at White Hart Lane until 2020 after taking his Premier League goal tally for the season into double figures late last month.
While many may baulk at the €32 million price tag the Bundeslga club have reportedly paid for Schurrle, Wolfsburg have done some good business this past few weeks.
The likes of Davide Santon, Robert Huth, Gabriel Paletta and Wilfired Zaha all made moves but the final day of transfer action failed to match the excitement of previous years.
The Nice man looks set to be out of action for quite some time after a disagreement involving the French club, former employers Newcastle United and French football's governing bodies.
It centres on whether an Under-21 outing for Newcastle counts as one of Ben Arfa's three permitted appearances for different clubs in one season and, in short, it seems it does.
With the Frenchman - one of Europe's brightest prospects as a youngster - in limbo following his loan spell at Hull City, it certainly has not been a positive few weeks for his hopes of resurrecting his career.
Nobody loves deadline day more than the QPR boss - with the 67-year-old having pulled off plenty of late swoops in recent years.
However, with current chairman Tony Fernandes vowing not to splash the cash, Redknapp was unable to offer any transfer snippets to waiting reporters as has become the custom.
