As Manchester United bid farewell to Anthony Martial for the rest of the season, Newcastle struggle to sign their top target and Chelsea are left with Jules Kounde regrets, Sevilla’s transfer guru Monchi can rest easy knowing the fate of the transfer window rests in his hands once again.
All three Premier League clubs encountered a problem with those deals — and that was trying to convince Monchi, the brains behind Sevilla’s well-oiled operation, to compromise. When it comes to transfer deals, the Spaniard very rarely loses out.
Monchi — full name Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo — is renowned as one of football’s shrewdest operators in the transfer market as Sevilla’s sporting director.