Manchester City's £190m Swipe: Enzo Fernandez and Iliman Ndiaye Arrive, Jack Grealish Leaves

Manchester City stole the show on 2026 transfer deadline day, completing a combined £190m double swoop that confirmed their ambition to strengthen a title-winning squad for the campaign ahead.

A £125m statement for Enzo Fernandez

The headline arrival was Enzo Fernandez, who joined the champions from Chelsea for £125m — one of the largest fees of the window and a clear signal of City's intent.

Iliman Ndiaye follows for £65m

City reinforced their attack further by signing Everton forward Iliman Ndiaye in a £65m deal, taking their deadline-day outlay to roughly £190m.

Grealish heads to Everton

The spending was balanced in part by Jack Grealish's loan move to Everton, a switch that reunited the winger with the Merseyside club and helped offset City's arrivals.

Chelsea's busy window on both sides

Fernandez's exit was just one strand of a frenetic deadline for Chelsea, who also sanctioned Mykhailo Mudryk's loan to Tottenham and Tosin Adarabioyo's move to the same club. In the other direction, Ben Chilwell arrived at Crystal Palace from RC Strasbourg and Quinten Timber joined Selhurst Park from Marseille.

What it means

Taken together, the moves underlined how the closing hours of the 2026 window were dominated by the Premier League's biggest spenders, with City making the most emphatic statement of the day.