In his latest Onside/Offside column, Luis Miguel Echegaray assesses the winter transfer window to make sense of who's in good shape and who is struggling.

The top clubs largely resisted the sort of excess spending that has characterised past windows, while middle-class sides like Aston Villa are closing the gap

Manchester City also took their January spending above £185 million ($230m) by signing Nico Gonzalez from Porto, having already snapped up Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Juma Bah as Pep Guardiola tries desperately to arrest his side's shocking slump in form.