Transfer deadline day 2019: Zaha, Lukaku, Sessegnon latest – live! | Football

And the final two updates (for now) from our colleagues at Get French Football News are here

• Leeds United will shortly announce the arrival of 19-year-old goalkeeper Illan Meslier on loan with an option to buy from Ligue 2 side FC Lorient.

• Norwich City are waiting to hear from 21-year-old Lorient attacking midfielder Alexis Claude Maurice, after having a €16.5m bid okayed in principle by the Ligue 2 club. Player had preferred to stay in France this summer. One to watch.”

And now a series of updates from our excellent friends at Get French Football News starting with

• Ismaïla Sarr is a name to watch for Premier League clubs today. Crystal Palace are understood to have put in a bid yesterday for the Senegalese winger, while Watford continue to negotiate with Rennes.

Kevin Wilson gets in touch (and I have to say I’d forgotten that Matteo Darmian was still there)

Man Utd need to spend some time trying to ship players out. Two of Jones, Smalling, Bailly, Rojo and Darmian should be leaving – in the case of the last three, they might find European takers later on. I think they’re also light a CM as well as someone who can play wide right/up top. I don’t think anyone is excited about an even more slow and ponderous Matic than usual.

I have to say that £8m for David Luiz sounds like a bargain. True, he has the odd mistake in him but he can be influential and, at his best, a magnificent centre-back. And if you are faced with a choice of having Mustafi or David Luiz in your team then it surely has to be the Brazilian. Still, he is no Upamecano.

Well, talking about David Luiz. Here we go!

Jonathan Bennett gets in touch via email to say:

Though I appreciate that it helps teams with their preparation, surely moving the deadline to the start of the Premier League season severely disadvantages English clubs? European clubs can quote a higher price to PL teams, safe in the knowledge that if, for example, Manchester United aren’t willing to splash out £200 million on Nacho, Real Madrid still have several weeks to flog him to another mug for a lower fee. What, Premier League clubs don’t actually care about having even more reckless and inflated spending? Oh.

Didn’t realise Scott Hogan was on the move? Well, then this transfer interactive is the place to go. Has got all 1,338 deals including clubs in the top five leagues in Europe so far (OK, we might have missed one or two but Niall McVeigh promises me that we are pretty much up to date). It really is a magnificent tool

And Spurs are doing their business comparatively early this summer (well, in fact, they haven’t been doing much business over the last few windows). Either way, they are not about to wait until 4.59pm to conclude any deals with Ryan Sessegnon AND Giovani Lo Celso on their way to Enfield to have medicals already.

Well, good morning everyone and welcome to our transfer deadline day live blog (although don’t worry, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and many other countries will be wheeling and dealing until early September). However, here in the UK it is the final day for Premier League and Championship clubs to conclude their business.