Villarreal's lucrative sale of Alexandre Pato to Tianjin Quanjian was comfortably the biggest transfer in La Liga, though Jese's loan move to his hometown club of Las Palmas was a romantic subplot on deadline day.
France was busier than usual this winter, with Julian Draxler and Goncalo Guedes both joining Paris St-Germain for big fees, Lyon splashing out on Memphis Depay and Marseille luring Dimitri Payet back. The Dimitri Payet deal looked like going to the wire but was done in time for him to make his second debut for the club on deadline night. On deadline day it was Lille, under new ownership, who were busiest, signing no less than six in a frenetic 24 hours, led by €8 million winger Anwar El Ghazi from Ajax.
Germany doesn't really get the English spirit of deadline day, with the Bundesliga wrapping things up at a civilised hour as usual. Bayern Munich made a pair of big signings in Hoffenheim pair Niklas Sule and Sebastian Rudy, but they won't arrive until summer. Borussia Dortmund moved quickly to snap up Swedish wunderkind Alexander Isak and Bayer Leverkusen also spent big on a youngster on deadline day, paying €12 million for Jamaican teenager Leon Bailey from Genk.
Thank goodness, then, for Turkey's taste for thespectacular, with champions Besiktas and surprise title chasers Baskasehir both going for striking experience in Demba Ba and Emmanuel Adebayor respectively.