February 1, 2018 in Europe ended the transfer period.

For a whole month the top clubs of the continent made a series of very expensive transitions, starting from Lucas Moura and ending with Filipe Coutinho.

TSN Prosport leads the top-10 most expensive winter transfers that were made from January 1 to February 1, 2018.

10th place in this ranking was occupied by the midfielder of London "Tottenham" Lucas Moura, who joined the "Spurs" from the French PSG for 25 million pounds. Moura signed a contract with his new team until 2023. For Parisians, Lucas held more than 150 bouts. 9 position went to the central defender of the Spanish "Athletics" Bilbao Inigo Martinez, who for 32 million euros moved from the "Real" Sociedad. This transition made Martinez the most expensive defender in La Liga. In "Real" this footballer played 205 matches. 8th place in this top-ranking was taken by ex-footballer of Shakhtar Donetsk Henrikh Mkhitaryan - Armenian attacking midfielder moved from Manchester United to Arsenal as part of the transfer deal in the opposite direction of Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez.

In the first half of this season, Mkhitaryan has 15 fights in which he scored 1 goal and 5 assists. As without China. 7 position was taken by the forward of the Chinese "Bainzin Goan" Cedric Bakambu, who for 40 million euros moved to this team from the Spanish "Villarreal". The striker will earn 18 million euros per season in the new team.

In the first half of the season, Cedric scored 12 goals in 20 games for the "yellow submarine". 6 place - top-transfer. Forward of the London "Arsenal" Pierre-Emerick Obama has moved to the "Gunners" from Dortmund "Borussia". The amount of the transfer was 64 million euros. We pass to the top-5 winter transfers. Do you remember Martinez's move to "Athletic"? So this was a substitute for the football player, who went to the English "Manchester City". Welcome, Emeric Laporte. Central defender joins the team of Josep Guardiola for 65 million euros. These figures have made Lyaporta the second most expensive defender in the history of football. 4 step, and this is the transfer of the forward of the Spanish "Atletico" Diego Costa, who returned to the "matrices" from the London "Chelsea". Officially, this transition was known at the beginning of September 2017, but because of the ban to register players, Madrid managed to sign the attacker only in winter. 3 place - forward "Manchester United" Alexis Sanchez moved to the "red devils" from the London "Arsenal". Details of the agreement regarding this transfer are still unknown.

2 position took the transfer of the central defender of Liverpool, "Virgil van Dyke, who for 75 million pounds transferred to the" Merseyside "from" Southampton ". This transition was the most expensive among the defenders in the history of football. And finally, the first place! Top-transfer of the winter period went to the midfielder of the Spanish "Barcelona" Filipe Coutinho, who joined the "blaugranas" for 160 million euros, moving from the English "Liverpool".

This was the winter transfer window at the beginning of this year. We are waiting for more loud conversations in the summer.