Men’s transfer window January 2022 – all deals from Europe’s top five leagues

Sought-after striker with 17 Serie A goals this season completes move

Joined Villa from Barcelona in 2020

Promising US teenager moves to Bundesliga

Centre-back has spent last 15 years at Hertha

Left-back was on loan at St Johnstone

Made PL debut against Newcastle last month

Barça academy graduate returns to Spain

Centre-back played 167 games for OL

32-year-old can also play at right-back

The January transfer window is not normally where the big clubs, such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, do most of their business, but there are times when reinforcements are needed.

In 2022 it mainly seems to be about outgoings at those clubs with Philippe Coutinho, for example, heading to Aston Villa on loan. Lat year Liverpool had a defensive crisis to deal with and signed Ben Davies from Preston and Ozan Kabak on loan from Schalke.

PSG are running away with the Ligue 1 title in France and it would be very surprising if they strengthened. Their main transfer concern at the moment is to try to keep Kylian Mbappé at the club with Real Madrid ready to pounce in the summer.

Newcastle, under new owners, are the club expected to do the most business and have already acquired Kieran Trippier from Atlético Madrid for an initial £12m and Chris Wood from Burnley for £25m. It is almost unthinkable that the Premier League strugglers will stop there as they try to climb up the table.