The Major League Soccer primary transfer came to a close on Wednesday night with a flurry of moves across the league.
Here's our deadline day winners and losers:
Deadline Day winners
Minnesota United
According to GiveMeSport's Tom Bogert, Minnesota United won the deadline day sweepstakes for Inter Miami's Julian Gressel, arguably the top MLS talent known to be available during the window.
While Gressel's contract makes him one of the league's most expensive wingbacks, his talents fit perfectly in Eric Ramsay's counter-attack-oriented 5-3-2 system. Strikers Tani Oluwaseyi and Kelvin Yeboah already have nine goals between them, and they could produce at an even greater level with one of the league's best crossers providing service.
Real Salt Lake
The Claret-and-Cobalt made a signing at their most obvious position of need, though it wasn't the one that was first on the radar.
RSL has acquired Willy Agada from rivals Sporting Kansas City in exchange for $500,000 in general allocation money, finding a solution at center forward despite seeing a previously reported deal with Boavista for Robert Bozenik fall through.
Agada had fallen behind Dejan Joveljic in the pecking order at SKC but is a proven goal-scoring commodity at the MLS level, scoring 21 goals in 64 career MLS appearances. He's been good for 0.55 goals per 90 minutes over that span.
Austin FC
The Verde have won matches primarily on the strength of their defense this season, though that could change if Brandon Vazquez begins finding his finishing boots.
But the addition of Robert Taylor from Inter Miami will immediately make manager Nico Estevez's attack more dynamic, and provide another quality option for providing Vazquez service.