Martin Rogers: Transfer Window's Winners and Losers

The January transfer window ended Thursday, producing some brisk business in the soccer world.

As opposed to several previous years, when the January window saw little in the way of meaningful activity, the positive financial outlook for many big teams triggered some key moves that sent cash hurtling around the sport's international marketplace.

The jury is still out on many of the speculative moves that did (or didn't) go through, but that didn’t stop us from identifying the big winners and big losers from the month that was.