No Mbappe for Real Madrid as focus turns to Barca on transfer deadline day

MADRID, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- In the end, Kylian Mbappe stayed at Paris Saint-Germain as Real Madrid failed to push through a deal though for the French international striker, and so rather than Real Madrid being the focus of attention of deadline day in the transfer window, that dubious honor fell on FC Barcelona.

However, rather than the arrival of new faces at Barca, it is the departures that are the eye-opener