The window is shut. Whatever Manchester United did or didn't sort out with Joshua Zirkzee, whatever got settled or unsettled with Marcus Rashford, none of it can be fixed by another phone call now. It has to be fixed on a pitch. Goodison Park is where that starts.
Everton don't care what United's boardroom was doing while the market moved around them. They care about three points at home. For United, this is the first version of the squad that has to actually exist for the next several months, no more deadline day as an excuse or an escape hatch. Whatever the plan was, this is the group living with it.
A quiet window can look smart in hindsight or it can look like a club that flinched. Everton away, first match on the other side of deadline day, is where that story gets its first real chapter. Does Manchester United FC beat Everton FC, or not.