Top 5: Premier League signings of the January transfer window

Tom Carroll to Swansea City

Swansea City completed the signing of Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll for a fee thought to be about £4.5m.

The signing of Carroll fell under the radar and those who saw the news were left underwhelmed when the signing was announced. However, his form of late has shown Paul Clement’s signing to have potential of being the bargain buy of the window.

For a player who rarely started for Tottenham and the Swans when on loan two seasons ago, there was not thought given into the fact he could be the man to revitalise Swansea’s campaign and inspire a turnaround in affairs.

However, Carroll has recently shown in the 3-2 win against Liverpool, in which he played terrifically, that there is hope for the Swans’ revival. The victory was certainly a team effort, but he played a huge part.

Swansea have suffered from a lack of tempo and energy in several performances. Carroll however was able to get the ball moving, and by finding pockets of space allowed his team to create attacking opportunities, by showing his ability to read the game and break up attacks, with the little possession they had.

When the game was at 2-2, Liverpool were piling the pressure on, but yet again it was young Carroll, determined to get forward, in this instance who had extremely quick feet to go past two Liverpool defenders to cause a defensive error to set up Gylfi Sigurdsson’s winner.

The 24-year-old played like the tricky midfielder Swansea have been looking for since Joe Allen left the club. He looked rather accomplished in the centre of the park during his second Swansea debut.