These 3 clubs gutted in the 2026 summer transfer window 🫠 | OneFootball

Nice transfer window.

The transfer window means arrivals, but also, unfortunately, departures.

This summer, several of Europe’s biggest clubs have been properly stripped bare.

Key players, XXL sales, wonderkids looking for a new challenge: here’s our selection of the clubs for whom this summer transfer window was particularly tough. 

Newcastle, goodbye stars

The bosses of the game.

Antony Gordon to Barcelona, Sandro Tonali to Tottenham, Bruno Guimarães to Arsenal: Newcastle quite simply lost all three of these stars this summer.

If you add to that the sale of Alexander Isak to Liverpool last summer and the surprise departure of coach Eddie Howe, that’s a lot in twelve months, isn’t it?

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Aston Villa, goodbye key players

We stay in the Premier League, this time over at Aston Villa.

The Birmingham club has seen some of its long-serving players head off to new horizons in recent weeks.

Lucas Digne to PSG, Youri Tielemans to Manchester United and Morgan Rogers to Chelsea: Unai Emery will have to do without three of his undisputed starters this new season.

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Strasbourg, goodbye wonderkids

The Premier League, on the other hand, had a field day with Strasbourg this summer.

Emmanuel Emegha and Valentin Barco signed for Chelsea, Julio Enciso and Abdoul Ouattara for Ipswich, and Diego Moreira is set to join Milan in the next few hours.

Are there any players left in Alsace?

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Can you think of any other clubs?

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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