The five largest games in the summer transfer window -

Each transfer, to a certain extent, is a bet. There is really very little way to say if an arrival will prosper or flop.

Over the years, there have been many examples of the two. Some great players have honored the Premier League largely with a fanfare and excitement – not to mention heavy price labels – and then disappointing once they go to the field, while some have arrived a lot under the radar, but then becoming superstars in its own right.

The risk is the name of the game here, really. It is essentially limited to a decision that has the potential to pay spectacular or quickly embarrassment.

It may be fair to say that some signatures are more risky than others. Here are five that could really go in both directions.

Gianluigi Donnarumma – PSG in Manchester City

Without it is not for the long -awaited move from Alexander Isak in Liverpool, this may well be the title of the signing of the deadline.

A winning guard of the Champions League joining another European football power, on paper at least, may seem very normal. However, the imposing Italian nevertheless feels as a strange adjustment for a pep Guardiola ethics which relies so strongly that the goalkeeper is smooth, since Donnarumma has proven several times that he is not always as comfortable with his feet.

That said, there are few guards in world football with the 26 -year -old shooting capacity. The fees of 26 million pounds sterling can also be a flight. Only time will tell us.

Nick Woltemade – Stuttgart in Newcastle United

Even for a player who bears the nickname “The Two Metre Messi”, transfer fees of 70 million pounds sterling for a 23 -year -old man without experience in the Champions League and only two senior international ceilings could be considered risky.

However, Nick Woltemade’s goal is impressive. He won 17 goals all competitions last season while Stuttgart raised the DFB Pokal, their first major trophy in almost two decades, and was the top scorer in the European U21 championship with six goals when Germany reached the final, where they lost to England.

Many will inevitably measure him against the man he was brought to replace in Newcastle, so there is already a lot of pressure on this very considered young attacker.

Benjamin SESKO – RB Leipzig in Manchester United

If the 73.3 million pounds Sterling Slovenians were noted on the ground at Manchester United, this could have a direct impact on the future of Manager Ruben Amorim.

Amorim faces another difficult fate in the upholstery of Old Trafford after a disappointing start of the campaign which included a defeat of the EFL Cup in the hands of the Two Grimsby Town League.

So, in a word, the arrival of Benjamin Sesko is a bet. He certainly has a pedigree. Twenty -seven goals in 64 Bundesliga games – a best goal of a goal every three games – can testify. But the 22 -year -old is by no means the finished article and can take some time to adapt.

At this point, it could already be too late for the man who brought him to the club.

Viktor Gyokerres – Sporting Lisbon in Arsenal

Unlike the others on this list, the new signature of 64 million pounds Sterling of the Gunners already has a game experience in England. Viktor Gyokerres carried out an agreement with Brighton in 2018, but spent most of his time on loan, before spending Coventry Permanent in 2021.

Again, his statistics speak for themselves, after scoring 97 remarkable goals in 102 games for the Portuguese Powers Sporting, including a hat-trick against Manchester City in the Champions League last season.

But one of the renowned summer acquisitions of Mikel Arteta will have a job to try to reproduce this kind of return to high flight in England. And taking into account the criticisms during the last season of their inability to attract an out and out goalscorer, it is likely that the objectives of Gyokerres – or their absence – will have a direct correlation with the gravity of the hopes of the title of the North Londonians.

Florian Wirtz – Bayer Leverkusen in Liverpool

One could reasonably say that any signature of more than 100 million pounds sterling is a huge bet. But perhaps even more for a player without any previous experience in the Premier League.

This is the case for Florian Wirtz de Liverpool, who, at 116 million pounds sterling, held the most expensive player in Liverpool for all, ERM, 10 weeks.

Isak’s arrival for 125 million pounds sterling may well remove part of Wirtz’s heat to be instantly up to this high price, but German will always be considered one of Arne’s most creative sparks.

While his first championship matches have not yet given goals or assists, Wirtz has shown glimpses of his talents and will be a force with which it is necessary to rely on his undeniable potential.

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