£2.5bn and beyond? Transfer window set to break all records

Clubs are on track to spend a record amount on new players with two weeks until the Premier League summer transfer window closes.

Premier League clubs have already spent £2.26 billion on players since the window opened at the beginning of June, according to information from FootballTransfers.com.

That is an increase of 12.7% over the sum of £1.97 billion spent during the 2024 summer.

During the summer transfer window of 2023, the current record is £2.36 billion.

As the deadline for September 1 approaches and the future of several players uncertain, it seems certain that a new record will be set.

Premier League clubs spend more money than their foreign counterparts, as always.

Top-flight English clubs have outperformed combined transfers from Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, and La Liga teams.

Premier League clubs have spent more than they have profited from sales.

La Liga, the only top European league with a minus net spend, is the only one where Spanish clubs have invested more than they have brought in.

Perhaps the fact that the Premier League is generating more sales for the bigger leagues is surprising.

The top three Premier League signings so far this summer have been those from Bundesliga clubs: Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen to Liverpool) (£100 million rising to £116 million with add-ons), Hugo Ekitike (Eintracht Frankfurt to Liverpool) (£69 million rising to £79 million with add-ons), and Benjamin Sesko (RB Leipzig to Manchester United) (£66.3 million rising to £73.7 million with add-ons).

The most lucrative league besides the Premier League is Serie A, which is currently in the top flight.

There were two windows in this unusual transfer window, which was unusual.

Due to a special registration period relating to the Fifa Club World Cup, the first event opened between Sunday, June 1 and Tuesday, June 10.

Before the traditional transfer window opened, Manchester City spent roughly £100 million on Rayan Cherki, Rayan Ait-Nouri, and Tijjani Reijnders.

The store will then close again on September 1st, and then reopen on June 16th.

This summer, six clubs have broken their transfer records.

Bournemouth’s $ 34.75 million signing of Burkinabe Dango Ouattara from Bournemouth, who had previously spent $ 34.64 million on French centre-back Bafode Diakite, was completed by Brentford.

Lesley Ugochukwu and Habib Diarra, both of whom are now promoted, have been paid £25 million and £26 million, respectively, in exchange for their complementary contracts at Burnley and Sunderland. Their combined spending could reach £30 million.

This summer, Nottingham Forest broke their transfer record with the arrival of Omari Hutchison from Ipswich for £37.5 million, first for Dan Ndoye from Bologna, and then for Dan Ndoye from Switzerland.

For a guaranteed sum of £100 million and an additional £16 million in add-ons, Liverpool acquired Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen in June.

If those additions were made, Wirtz’s arrival at Anfield would surpass Chelsea’s previous record of £ 107 million for Enzo Fernandez, who Chelsea paid for in 2023.

16 of the 20 Premier League clubs currently playing have broken their transfer records in the last four years, with four of them, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal, having records totaling $ 100 million or more.

Burnley’s record transfer fee was £25 million at the other end of the scale.

All three Premier League teams that have been promoted to the top three, Burnley, Sheffield United, Luton Town, Leicester City, Ipswich Town, and Southampton, have all been immediately relegated.

It’s more difficult than ever to survive, which is perhaps why Sunderland has been focusing on attracting players like Granit Xhaka, a former Arsenal midfielder.

The Black Cats are currently at the top of the table in terms of Premier League clubs with the highest spends, according to FootballTransfers.com. Nottingham Forest will follow, where they made significant investments following their promotion in 2021-22.

Only Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have spent more than Sunderland have paid for players in La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1.

In fact, Atletico Madrid spends the most money outside of the Premier League, spending £153 million, followed by Real Madrid, which spends close to the same amount.

However, those figures are significantly below the reported £289.5 million that Liverpool have invested in their squad since becoming Premier League champions.

More than three times as much as Paris St-Germain have spent since winning the Champions League, or $90 million.

Juventus have spent a total of ten thousand pounds in other European cities, including a total of ten, including a total of ten, including a total of ten.

So far, Barcelona have only spent £22.5 million.

Will spending in Premier League games surpass the $2. 5 billion barrier?

Marc Guehi, the defender for Crystal Palace, is on Liverpool’s radar, and Eberechi Eze, the forward for Tottenham, wants to join Tottenham.

Along with Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku, Brentford’s Yoane Wissa and Manchester United’s Alejandro Garnacho may also be on the move.

After the window closes, where will Premier League spending be?