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After a protracted, often volatile and bad-tempered period of financial and political wrangling, 11pm GMT will herald a brand new beginning. For many in the
UK, it will be a time of unfettered joy, an occasion to chime the bells and string up the bunting as they celebrate a brave new dawn. For the more circumspect among us, it will mark the beginning of a period fraught with uncertainty, the first tentative steps into the unknown. But whatever your feelings on the January transfer window, there will almost certainly be a collective, unified sigh of relief that after all the bluff and bluster it will finally be over.