Part three: the transfers that went under every radar

You know every one of these players. You probably missed every one of these moves. While the record fees got the headlines, Casemiro went to Miami, Jesse Lingard turned up in Brazil on Memphis Depay's recommendation, and Manchester United loaned their £44m goalkeeper to Turkey for a second year running. Six completed moves, all real, all quiet.

1. Casemiro — Man United to Inter Miami · FREE

Five Champions Leagues with Real Madrid, four years at Old Trafford, and out the door the day his contract expired. Casemiro joined Messi, De Paul and the Florida project on a free — and MLS promptly opened a tampering investigation into how early Miami had been talking to him. Even his quiet moves come with noise.

2. Jesse Lingard — FC Seoul to Corinthians · FREE

Two years in Korea, and then a phone call. Lingard says Memphis Depay's pitch — the biggest club in Brazil, fans like nowhere else — was the deciding factor, and he turned down an MLS offer to find out. Two ex-United men now share a dressing room at the Neo Química Arena.

3. André Onana — Man United to Trabzonspor · LOAN

The £44m goalkeeper is spending a second season on the Black Sea coast. He won the Turkish Cup there in May, went back to Manchester, and went straight out again — another season-long loan, no option to buy, Trabzonspor covering most of the wages. United's most expensive keeper, and they cannot give him away.

4. Jack Harrison — Leeds to New England

219 appearances for Leeds, a strange half-season in Florence, and now a Designated Player deal in Boston through 2030. Harrison started his career at New York City FC, so this is the loop closing — one of the Championship era's best wingers, quietly gone from English football at 29.

5. Angus Gunn — Nottm Forest to San Jose · FREE

Scotland's goalkeeper at the Euros, released by Forest, and now catching crosses in California. Gunn joined San Jose on a free — the kind of move that used to mean winding down, and increasingly just means a 30-year-old international reading the market correctly.

6. Kieran Trippier — Newcastle to Wolves · FREE

An England full-back with a Champions League final, a Bundesliga title chase and Newcastle's drought-ending Carabao Cup on his record — and at 35 he chose relegated Wolves, in the Championship, on a free. Rob Edwards wanted a leader for the climb back. He got one of the best crossers of his generation.

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