Honestly speaking, I have not witnessed a transfer market as dull as this before. I don't know whether it's due to financial crisis affecting some clubs that is affecting the entire transfer market. Surprisingly, even clubs who are not struggling with finance are not too active in the market as well.
Talking about the active clubs in the market, Chelsea has been active in the market more than any other club thou I see their activeness as a misplaced priority because they are bringing in players who have no much impact on the club. In fact, some of the players they bring in will become a bench warmer despite spending huge amounts in the transfer market.
Maybe Chelsea just listened to what Enzo Maresca said in buying some of these players in the transfer market this season in order to maximize the condition of the Chelsea team itself next season. Because who knows, the players that Chelsea have acquired could be better next season even though we judge them very mediocrely at this time with a level of influence that is not that big on the Chelsea team. But it is true that this season's transfer market is really not as fierce as the previous season due to the inactivity of some big teams who are targeting great players.
I think the previous and current transfer markets are not much different, but it's just that perhaps some clubs are currently experiencing a financial crisis after several teams released many players for free so there really no money coming in for these clubs to spend on new players, apart from that, it's also possible that there are new financial regulations English league is currently making English league clubs a little more careful in spending money to strengthen their teams, some teams currently look very slow in the transfer market and this is different from Chelsea which continues to bring in lots of new players, Chelsea finances very stable because I see that their expenditure and income in the current transfer market is only different -200 million euros, Chelsea, which is currently owned by Todd Boehly, seems very ambitious to build a Chelsea squad with young players, especially in the transfer market last season, they released many players with permanent or loan which means they have got a lot of money to spend at the moment, if we talk about other teams, it seems like teams like Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City will be more dominant in maintaining their squad last season which looks quite good so they will try to save money now.