After dining at the football’s top table for a month, it’s time to go back to porridge. The caipirinhas and caviar of the World Cup will make way for a daily diet of rumours, tittle-tattle and exasperation over the next few weeks. The transfer window is open until 31 August – lucky us! – but the richest clubs have been blowing money all summer.

Arsenal bought the impressive Alexis Sánchez for £30m; José Mourinho has bolstered Chelsea’s little horses to the tune of £82m; Manchester United have spent £60m on Luke Shaw and Ander Herrera; Liverpool have reinvested £60m of the money they earned from selling Luis Suárez; and Manchester City have coughed up a paltry £12m, just because they can.

There will be more signings to come over the next 45 days. Tottenham Hotspur have been thrifty so far, which is hardly a surprise after last summer’s excesses, but Mauricio Pochettino will be hoping to strengthen his squad. Brendan Rodgers has hinted Liverpool have more money available to spend and Southampton are in need of replacements. Who has bought well so far?

Will England’s reserve left-back and a midfielder who didn’t make it into the Spain squad help Manchester United re-establish themselves as a top four club? Were Liverpool wise to spend £25m on Adam Lallana considering that Real Madrid bought Toni Kroos – Germany’s man of the match in their 7-1 destruction of Brazil – for £20m? Can Joe Cole recover his career at Aston Villa? And will Rickie Lambert prove a success at Liverpool?

Arsenal

In: Alexis Sanchez (Barcelona, £30m)

Out: Bacary Sagna (Manchester City, free), Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea, free), Nicklas Bendtner (released), Park Chu-young (released), Chuks Aneke (released), Daniel Boateng (released)

Aston Villa

In: Philippe Senderos (Fulham, free), Joe Cole (West Ham, free), Tom Leggett (Southampton), Isaac Nehemie (Southampton), Kieran Richardson (Fulham)

Out: Marc Albrighton (Leicester City, free), Nathan Delfouneso (released), Jordan Bowery (Rotherham), Nicklas Helenius (Aalborg, loan), Yacouba Sylla (Kayseri Erciyesspor, loan)

Burnley

In: Lukas Jutkiewicz (Middlesbrough, £2.5m), Michael Kightly (Stoke City), Marvin Sordell (Bolton, free), Matt Gilks (Blackpool, free), Matt Taylor (West Ham, free), Steven Reid (West Brom, free)

Out: Chris Baird (West Brom, free), Junior Stanislas (Bournemouth, free), David Edgar (Birmingham, free), Keith Treacy (released), Brian Stock (released), Nick Liversedge (released)

Chelsea

In: Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona, £30m), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid, £32m), Mario Pasalic (Hadjuk Split), Filipe Luís (£20m)

Out: David Luiz (Paris Saint-Germain, £50m), Ashley Cole (Roma, free), Samuel Eto’o (released), Frank Lampard (released), Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday, free), Mark Schwarzer (released), Henrique Hilario (released), Wallace (Vitesse Arnhem, loan), Bertrand Traore (Vitesse Arnhem, loan) Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Monchengladbach, loan)

Crystal Palace

In: Chris Kettings (Blackpool, free)

Out: Jonathan Parr (Ipswich, free), Dean Moxey (Bolton, free), Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City, free), Kagisho Dikgacoi (Cardiff, free), Danny Gabbidon (released), Neil Alexander (released), Ibra Sekajja (released), Alex Wynter (Portsmouth, loan), Kwesi Appiah (Cambridge, loan)

Everton

In: Gareth Barry (Manchester City, free)

Out: Apostolos Vellios, Mason Springthorpe, Magaye Gueye (released)

Hull City

In: Robert Snodgrass (Norwich, £7m), Jake Livermore (Tottenham, £6m), Tom Ince (Blackpool, free)

Out: Matty Fryatt (Nottingham Forest, free), Cameron Stewart (Ipswich, free), Robert Koren (released), Joe Dudgeon (released), Abdoulaye Faye (released), Conor Henderson (Crawley, free), Eldin Jakupovic (released), Dougie Wilson (released)

Leicester City

In: Matthew Upson (Brighton, free), Marc Albrighton (Aston Villa, free), Ben Hamer (Charlton, free), Jack Barmby (Manchester United, free)

Out: Lloyd Dyer (Watford, free), Neil Danns (Bolton, free), Sean St Ledger (released), Zak Whitbread (Derby, free), Paul Gallagher (Preston, loan), Marko Futacs (released), Ben Nugent (Yeovil, loan)

Liverpool

In: Adam Lallana (Southampton, £25m), Lazar Markovic (Benfica, £20m), Emre Can (Bayer Leverkusen, £9.8m), Rickie Lambert (Southampton, £4m)

Out: Luis Suarez (Barcelona, £75m), Luis Alberto (Malaga, loan)

Manchester City

In: Fernando (Porto, £12m), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal, free), Willy Caballero (Malaga, £6m)

Out: Costel Pantilimon (Sunderland, free), Joleon Lescott (West Brom, free) Gareth Barry (Everton, free), Alex Nimely (released)

Manchester United

In: Luke Shaw (Southampton, £27m), Ander Herrera (Athletic Bilbao, £29m), Vanja Milinkovic (FK Vojvodina)

Out: Alexander Buttner (Dinamo Moscow, £5.6m), Rio Ferdinand (released), Nemanja Vidic (Inter, free), Federico Macheda (Cardiff City, free), Jack Barmby (Leicester, free), Ryan Giggs (retired)

Newcastle United

In: Emmanuel Rivière (Monaco), Remy Cabella (Montpellier, £12m), Siem de Jong (Ajax, £6m), Ayoze Perez (Tenerife, £1.5m), Jack Colback (Sunderland, free)

Out: James Tavernier (Wigan), Dan Gosling (Bournemouth, free), Shola Ameobi (released), Conor Newton (Rotherham, free), Michael Richardson (released)

Queens Park Rangers

In: Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United, free)

Out: Tom Hitchcock (Mk Dons, free), Aaron Hughes (Brighton, free) Stephane Mbia (released), Andrew Johnson (released), Luke Young (released), Hogan Ephraim (released), Angelo Balanta (released), Yossi Benayoun (Maccabi Haifa)

Southampton

In: Dusan Tadic (Twente, £10.3m), Graziano Pelle (Feyenoord, £9m)

Out: Luke Shaw (Manchester United, £30m), Rickie Lambert (Liverpool, £4m), Adam Lallana (Liverpool, £25m) Guly do Prado (released), Lee Barnard (Southend, free), Jonathan Forte (released), Danny Fox (Nottingham Forest, free), Andy Robinson (Bolton, free), Tom Leggett (Aston Villa), Isaac Nehemie (Aston Villa)

Stoke City

In: Mame Biram Diouf (Hannover, free), Dionatan Teixeira (Banska Bystrica), Phil Bardsley (Sunderland, free), Steve Sidwell (Fulham, free)

Out: Michael Kightly (Burnley), Matthew Etherington (released), Juan Agudelo (released)

Sunderland

In: Billy Jones (West Brom, free), Jordi Gomez (Wigan, free), Costel Pantilimon (Manchester City, free)

Out: Jack Colback (Newcastle, free), Craig Gardner (West Brom, free), Phil Bardsley (Stoke, free), Billy Knott (Bradford, free) Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday, free), Carlos Cuellar (released), Andrea Dossena (released), Louis Laing (released), Oscar Ustari (Newell’s, free), David Vaughan (released), John Egan (Gillingham, free)

Swansea City

In: Marvin Emnes (Middlesbrough, £1.5m), Bafetimbi Gomis (Lyon, free), Lukasz Fabianski (Arsenal, free), Stephen Kingsley (Falkirk)

Out: Leroy Lita (released), David Ngog (released), Daniel Alfei (Northampton, loan), Jernade Meade (released), Darnel Situ (released)

Tottenham Hotspur

In: None

Out: Jake Livermore (Hull, £8m), Heurelho Gomes (Watford, free), Cameron Lancaster (released)

West Bromwich Albion

In: Craig Gardner (Sunderland, free), Joleon Lescott (Manchester City, free), Chris Baird (Burnley, free), Sebastien Pocognoli (Hannover 96)

Out: Liam Ridgewell (Portland Timbers, free), Billy Jones (Sunderland, free), Steven Reid (Burnley, free), Cameron Gayle (Shrewsbury, free), Diego Lugano (released), Zoltan Gera (released), Scott Allan (released), Nicolas Anelka (released)

West Ham United

In: Cheikhou Kouyate (Anderlecht, £7m), Mauro Zarate (Velez Sarsfield), Aaron Cresswell (Ipswich), Diego Poyet (Charlton)

Out: Joe Cole (Aston Villa, free), Matt Taylor (Burnley, free) Jack Collison (released), George McCartney (released), Callum Driver (released), Jordan Spence (released)

Which Premier League club has done the best transfer business so far?