The center of attraction of this year’s transfer window has most definitely been the London clubs. Almost all of the Londoners have a completely different setup this season. From the adamant Wenger to the filthy rich Roman to the wannabe revolutionary AVB, the clubs have left the fans with no option but to boo their last season hero playing for bitter rivals now.

Martin Jol, a cult figure at White Hart Lane, returns to a different London club 4 years later. And the next summer sees two of Fulham’s best players moving to Spurs. Dembele and Dempsey replacing Luka Modric and Rafael Van der Vaart at the Lane might be seen as a step down in quality by many, but Levy might just have pulled off the transfer coup of the season with a combined 20 million for the talented duo.

Dembele, an integral part of the dangerously strong Belgian generation, is a much more direct player than Modric. The tremendous ease with which he passes by the opposition midfield by just a drop of his shoulders, and his well placed shots via the left boot will ease some of those Lilywhite nerves.

In this era of the False no. 9, Clint Dempsey, the highest scoring American in the EPL, will surely take of the burden of goal scoring from the galloping Bale and ex-Cityzen Adebayor. Dempsey will fight it out with the other new signing, the impressive Gylfi ‘So-Good-Son’, for a spot to fill Rafa’s boots.

Spurs might still be Jol’s true love, and the former Ajax man didn’t brighten matters by selling the entire spine of the Cottagers in the summer. From strikers Zamora, Johnson and Pogrebniak to midfielders Danny Murphy and Etuhu, Martin sold them all and replaced them with somewhat proven faces.

An overdose of strikers and wingers has arrived at Craven Cottage. Madan Petric, Hugo Rodellega and Berbatov have filled the gaps upfront, and Richardson and Dejagah have slotted up in the wings. The glaring miss for the Cottagers this season is surely central midfield, where Diarra is the only recognized player remaining, unless Jol plans to play his favorite pupil Berba in a new role this season.

West London seems the new Silicon Valley, with Russians and Malaysians running a money riot there. Roman Abrahamovich and Tony Fernandez were always known to be lavish spenders, but this summer the billionaire duo brought in a combined total of 19 players for 110 million pounds. The Premier League’s talent pool might just have multiplied tenfold with the arrival of Hazard, Oscar, M’bia, Granero, Caesar, but at the expense of the utter ridicule of UEFA’s FFP due to advent this season.

While topics related to FFP come up, Arsene Wenger cannot be left out of the fore. Wenger often comes up with ones like: “in Europe there is no money and in England the prices are high”, and these frustrate Arsenal fans to no limit. Having sold another club captain in this window, Wenger again looked for foreign players to strengthen his squad. In Podolski and ‘Cathorla’, Wenger might just have broken his mantra of not going for established names, but he quickly settled nerves by signing yet another French misfiring striker. Project Youth might have run its time, but the Frenchman again stood by his academy talents of Coeqlin, Wilshere and Frimpong to replace the now Catalan Alex Song.

The Champions were not to be left far behind. Another one of the FA’s rules regarding the number of English players in the squad forced Mancini to dip in and pluck out Scott Sinclair and Jack Rodwell. After Italy’s impressive Euro campaign, every Italian seems fixated on a 3 man defense with a midfield diamond to go. Two players bought on the final day by the club, Javi Garcia and Maicon will be perfect fits in the aspired formation.

The rest of England, read Manchester, might have done some robust business, but none stands in comparison to the might of London. And just to bang home the point further, Big Sam had the audacity to bring Liverpool’s 35 million pound baby on loan to West Ham, which becomes just the 6th club in London this season.

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