Premier League spending tops record £2.37bn as Leeds sign Okafor

To increase Premier League spending this summer, Leeds United have signed Milan AC striker Noah Okafor for an undisclosed sum of £18 million.

The Swiss international has signed a four-year deal with the Premier League.

The 25-year-old joins Leeds for the ninth time in the summer following their promotion to the top flight.

Premier League clubs have now spent £2.36 billion in the summer of 2023, more than the previous record for the same window.

Before joining Milan on a five-year deal in 2023, the Swiss spent time at Basel and RB Salzburg.

The total spent by Premier League clubs this summer is now £2.37 billion, according to FootballTransfers.com’s data. Okafor’s arrival at Elland Road adds up to that figure.

In this time, six Premier League clubs have broken their club transfer records, helping to fuel the record amount of money spent.

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.

Florian Wirtz was signed by Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen for a guaranteed sum of £100 million and additional sums of £16 million in additions in June.

If those additions were made, Wirtz’s arrival at Anfield would break the previous record for the country, surpassing the £107 million Chelsea paid Benfica for Enzo Fernandez in 2023.