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#2 Juventus
Juventus pulled off one of the major coups of the summer by convincing the highly sought after Matthijs de Ligt to play for them ahead of virtually every other top European club.
However, the €75m purchase of the Dutch international is somewhat bittersweet, with news of Giorgio Chiellini's potential season-ending injury rubbed some of the gloss off it, as at 19, De Ligt still has a lot of growing up to do, and does not offer the same composure at the back that the Juventus captain does, which was evidenced by his errors in the game against Napoli.
The Bianconerri also completed the requisite free signings, and while Aaron Ramsey and Adrien Rabiot have the ability to join the pantheon of free arrivals who went on to achieve legendary status at the club, the former's fitness concerns and latter's disciplinary issues mean that they are both signings that could go either way.
Danilo is a player who has failed to cement a regular shirt at not one but two major clubs, as he struggled horribly at first Real Madrid and despite showing a modicum of improvement at Manchester City never gave the impression of being a crucial member of the squad and was always on the periphery.
Quite why Juventus valued him at €37m in a deal that saw the fast-rising Joao Cancelo go the other way baffles the imagination.
Upfront, Moise Kean, who is one of Italy's brightest talents was allowed to leave, and the fact that Juventus sold him to Everton for the paltry sum of €32m is baffling, to say the least.
The teenager was let go ostensibly in the hope that the Turin giants could get a big name striker, but their pursuit of Romelu Lukaku went up in flames after Paulo Dybala reportedly chose not to go the other way, while Mauro Icardi's deadline day loan move to PSG also put paid to another long-term target.
The result of this is that Maurizio Sarri is left with centre forwards with an average age of 33, and this is a less than ideal proposition for the 60-year-old, while their inability to offload some marquee players means that Juventus would have to omit some big names from their Champions League squad; a situation the man himself described as embarrassing.
