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Transfer Deadline Day: What we want to see on final day of January 2024 window

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Real Madrid's former sporting director Jorge Valdano once told the club's demanding president Florentino Perez that, on average, three out of every five transfers are failures. That pessimism is not shared by the large proportion of Football fans that fetishise transfers above the actual Game . To convey the balance of perceived importance, the self-styled transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has more social media followers than Manchester City, the best club team on the planet. Transfer fever reaches its febrile peak on each deadline day. Here's what would make for an enthralling conclusion to this January's winter window as it slams shut on 1 February 2024. Forget the football Manchester United play Wolves on deadline day / Visionhaus/GettyImages When Sky Sports were divvying up this season's batch of televised fixtures, they would naturally have underscored certain key derbies, any potential title showdowns and relegation six-pointers. However, a word in the ear fr...