January 2025 Transfers

Welcome to our database on the latest transfers across the world of football! We publish the major transfers across Europe throughout January 2025.

Note: Countries indicated at the beginning of the bullet denotes the player’s nationality. As well, a “package fee” represents the base fee and performance-based add-ons. Finally, leagues outside of the top five European leagues may conduct transfers beyond the most of the European leagues’ transfer deadline on Friday, August 30. (Source: Transfermarkt)

European Top Five Leagues

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Premier League

Wednesday, January 1

  • 🇵🇾 Brighton & Hove Albion Hotspur signed forward Diego Gómez (21) from Major League Soccer (MLS) club for €13.0 million; details regarding the contract length of Gómez‘s contract at Brighton remain undisclosed.

Thursday, January 2

  • 🇺🇸 AFC Bournemouth signed defender Matai Akinmboni (18) from MLS club D.C. United for a package fee worth approximately €2.5 million; details regarding the contract length of Akinmboni’s contract at Bournemouth remain undisclosed.

Sunday, January 5

  • 🇨🇿 Tottenham Hotspur signed goalkeeper Antonín Kinský (21) from Czech First League club Slavia Praha for €10.0 million; Kinský penned a six-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2031.

Thursday, January 9

  • 🇫🇷 Southampton FC signed defender Joachim Kayi Sanda (18) from Championnat National club Valenciennes FC for €5.0 million; Kayi Sanda penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

  • 🇨🇮 Wolverhampton Wanderers signed defender Emmanuel Agbadou (27) from Ligue 1 club Stade Reims for €18.0 million; Agbadou penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Wednesday, January 15

  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ipswich Town signed forward Jaden Philogene (22) from fellow EPL club Aston Villa for €23.7 million; Philogene penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Saturday, January 18

  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crystal Palace signed midfielder Romain Esse (19) from EFL Championship club Millwall FC for €14.2 million; Esse penned a five-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2030.

🇮🇹 Serie A

Tuesday, January 7

  • 🇪🇸 Como 1907 signed forward Assane Diao (19) from LaLiga club Real Betis €10.0 million; Diao penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Saturday, January 11

  • 🇩🇰 SSC Napoli signed midfielder Philip Billing (28) from EPL club AFC Bournemouth on a six-month loan with a purchase option worth approximately €10.0 million.

Sunday, January 12

  • 🇫🇷 Como 1907 signed midfielder Maxence Caqueret (24) from Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais for a package fee worth approximately €18.0 million; Caqueret penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Monday, January 13

  • 🇩🇪 SS Lazio signed midfielder Arijon Ibrahimović (19) from Bundesliga club Bayern Munich on a six-month loan with a mandatory purchase option worth €8 million.

Wednesday, January 15

  • 🇵🇹 Juventus FC signed defender Alberto Costa (21) from Primeira Liga club Vitória SC for a package fee worth approximately €16.3 million; Costa penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Sunday, January 19

  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Como 1907 signed midfielder Dele Alli on a free transfer; Alli penned a one-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2026.

    • Note: The former English international has been without since June 2023. Alli last played a competitive professional match on February 26, 2023 for Turkish Süper Lig club Beskitas, while being on loan from EPL club Everton FC.

🇩🇪 Bundesliga

Thursday, January 2

  • 🇦🇷 Bayer Leverkusen signed forward Alejo Sarco (18) on a free transfer; Sadiq penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

    • Note: The 18-year-old played the 2024 season — the first of his career — with Argentine Primera División club Vélez, producing six goals and one assist in 14 matches across all competitions.

  • 🇳🇬 TSG Hoffenheim signed forward Gift Orban (22) from Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais for a package fee worth approximately €12.0 million; Orban penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Friday, January 10

  • 🇩🇪 RB Leipzig signed defender Ridle Baku (26) from Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for €4.5 million; Baku penned a two-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2027.

Thursday, January 16

  • 🇺🇸 Holstein-Kiel signed defender John Tolkin (22) from MLS club New York Red Bulls (RBNY) for €2.5 million; details regarding the contract length of Tolkin’s contract at Holstein-Kiel remain undisclosed.

    • Note: Tolkin, a homegrown player from RBNY’s academy, played a crucial role in that club’s run to the 2024 MLS Cup final, which they lost against LA Galaxy by a 2-1 score.

Friday, January 17

  • 🇩🇰 VfL Wolfsburg signed forward Andreas Skov Olsen (25) from Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge for €14 million; Olsen penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

🇫🇷 Ligue 1

Wednesday, January 1

  • 🇵🇹 FC Nantes signed goalkeeper Anthony Lopes (34) on a free transfer; Lopes penned a six-month contract valid until June 2025, with an option of two additional seasons.

    • Note: The 34-year-old played the last 13.5 seasons with Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais.

  • 🇨🇮 Stade Rennais signed midfielder Seko Fofana (29) from Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr for €20.0 million; Fofana penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

    • Note: The 29-year-old Ivorian international spent the last 1.5 seasons in Saudi Arabia, playing for Saudi Pro League clubs Al-Nassr and Al-Ettifaq. During that period, Fofana produced four goals and three assists in 48 matches across all competitions.

Tuesday, January 7

  • 🇮🇹 Olympique de Marseille signed defender Luiz Felipe (27) on a free transfer from Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad; Luiz Felipe penned a one-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2026.

    • Note: The 27-year-old arrives in Marseille following a mutual agreement with Al-Ittihad to a contract termination. Since arriving at the Jeddah-based club in September 2023, the former Italian international appeared in 28 matches across all competitions, including one Saudi Pro League match in 2024-25.

Wednesday, January 8

  • 🇫🇷 Stade Rennais signed goalkeeper Brice Samba (30) for €15.0 million; Samba penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Saturday, January 11

  • 🇩🇰 AS Monaco signed forward Mika Biereth (21) from Austrian Bundesliga club SK Sturm Graz for a package fee worth approximately €15.0 million; Biereth penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Wednesday, January 15

  • 🇦🇷 Olympique Lyonnais signed midfielder Thiago Almada (23) from Brazilian Série A club Botafogo on a six-month loan; details as to whether the deal contains a purchase option are not disclosed.

    • Note: Almada arrived at Botafogo — a club under the same ownership as Lyon — from MLS club Atlanta United on January 10, 2024 for €19.5 million, which represents the largest transfer purchase in the club history.

Friday, January 17

  • 🇬🇪 Paris Saint-Germain signed forward Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (23) from Serie A club for a package fee worth approximately €75 million; Kvaratskhelia penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

    • Note: The star Georgian international played a crucial role in Napoli’s 2022-23 Serie A title, earning a position on the 2022-23 Serie A Team of the Year and winning the Serie A Most Valuable Player award.

🇪🇸 LaLiga

Saturday, January 4

  • 🇳🇬 Valencia CF signed forward Umar Sadiq (27) from league rivals Real Sociedad on a six-month loan with a purchase option; details as to whether the deal contains a purchase option are not disclosed.

Friday, January 10

  • 🇨🇭 Sevilla FC signed forward Rubén Vargas (26) from Bundesliga club FC Augsburg for €2.5 million; Vargas penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Other European Leagues

🇳🇱 Eredivisie

Friday, January 3

  • 🇧🇦 PSV Eindhoven signed forward Esmir Bajraktarević (19) from MLS club New England Revolution for a package fee worth approximately €6.0 million; Bajraktarević penned a four-and-a-half-year contract valid until June 2029.

Thursday, January 9

  • 🇨🇮 FC Utrecht signed forward Sébastien Haller (30) from Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund on a six-month loan; details regarding a purchase option have not been disclosed.

    • Note: Haller spent the first half of the 2024-25 season on loan at LaLiga club CD Leganés, appearing in nine matches across all competitions: eight in LaLiga and one in Copa del Rey.

🇧🇪 Belgian Pro League

  • 🇧🇷 RSC Anderlecht signed defender Adryelson (26) from Olympique Lyonnais on a six-month loan with a purchase option worth €6.0 million.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 EFL Championship (England’s second division)

Friday, January 10

  • 🇫🇷 AFC Sunderland signed midfielder Enzo Le Fée (24) from Serie A club AS Roma on a six-month loan with a purchase option worth €23.0 million.

Select Major Signings outside of Europe (coming from Europe’s major leagues)

🇦🇷 Argentine Primera División

Friday, January 17

  • 🇪🇸 Boca Juniors signed midfielder Ander Herrera (35) on a free transfer; Herrera penned a two-year contract valid until December 2026.

    • Note: On January 17 — the same day as Herrera’s transfer to Boca Juniors, Herrera and Athletic Club mutually agreed to a contract termination. In two stints with Athletic Club — from July 2011 to June 2014 and from January 2023 to January 2025 — 35-year-old appeared in 189 appearances across all competitions for the Bilbao-based club, helping the club win the 2023-24 Copa del Rey and reaching the final of the Copa del Rey and UEFA Europa League finals in 2013-14.

🇲🇽 Liga MX

Monday, January 13

  • 🇨🇴 Club León signed midfielder James Rodríguez (33) on a free transfer; Rodríguez penned a one-year contract valid until December 2025.

    • Note: The Colombian international arrived in Mexico following a contract termination with LaLiga club Rayo Vallecano, with which he played from August 2024 to December 2025. During his tenure, Rodríguez appeared in seven matches across all competitions — LaLiga and Copa del Rey — producing one assist.