Andre Gomes and Yerry Mina arrived at Everton from Barcelona and David Harrison has offered some insight into the details behind their signing.
"It became obvious about 48 hours before the deadline that we were going to have to conclude both of those deals in Barcelona," Harrison revealed. "The logistics of medicals and getting players into various locations wasn’t going to work and the easiest way to deal with it was to go to Spain.
"Barcelona as a club were very accommodating and gave us access for medicals at local hospitals which they use. We had a late night the day before trying to get as much lined up as possible to help us."
Yerry Mina has scored once across his 14 appearances this season, while Gomes has one goal and two assists to his name from 28 appearances.
Everton will finish the season in the top half of the table as West Ham sit four points behind them in 11th place.