The transfer window officially open as of Wednesday, and clubs are seemingly scrambling to complete their business earlier than usual given the volatility of the current market. Recent seasons have seen spending habits reach previously unforeseen heights, particularly in the English top-flight as the prestige of the Premier League continues to grow. The 2023/24 campaign boasts of a refreshing mixture of teams however, with everything from billionaire-owned treble winners to newcomers with a 10,000 seater stadium. With that in mind, we are comparing the Premier League summer transfer window records for each team heading into the new season.
Preparations are underway behind the scenes as clubs begin ticking off their summer window shortlists, and several high-profile names including Alexis Mac Allister and Joao Pedro have already been confirmed to be on the move.
After consecutive record-breaking transfer windows last summer and in January of this year, the alarming spending power of the Premier League is perhaps the apposite example of why it is considered the elite division in world football.
Two cup winners out of a possible three in Europe is testament to that, but as the hangover from the past season starts to wear off, the attention will slowly divert towards preparing for the 2023/24 campaign.
After spending £1.92bn across the summer window last year – a figure that has doubled over the past decade – Premier League clubs are projected to surpass the £2bn mark with a flurry of mega-money deals, namely Declan Rice and Moises Caicedo, expected imminently.
The bulk of that figure will inevitably come from the heavyweights battling it out at the summit, so we thought it worthwhile to look at each team’s record summer transfer window expenditure ahead of the next three months.
Premier League Summer Transfer Window Records For Each Team
- Arsenal – £142m (2021)
- Aston Villa – £127m (2019)
- Bournemouth – £28.6m (2018)
- Brentford – £43.2m (2022)
- Brighton – £62.6m (2018)
- Burnley – £29.1m (2017)
- Chelsea – £241m (2022)
- Crystal Palace – £62.5m (2021)
- Everton – £135.2m (2017)
- Fulham – £97m (2018)
- Liverpool – £155m (2018)
- Luton – £1.81m (2022)
- Manchester City – £212m (2017)
- Manchester United – £205.3m (2022)
- Newcastle – £116m (2022)
- Nottingham Forest – £138m (2022)
- Sheffield United – £54m (2020)
- Tottenham – £145m (2022)
- West Ham – £156m (2022)
- Wolves – £118m (2022)
Figures courtesy of The Athletic
It is no surprise to see Chelsea top the all-time single-season summer spending charts given Todd Boehly’s gung-ho approach to transfers since taking over last summer.
In his maiden season as owner, his frivolous spending spree before the campaign had even begun saw the Blues drop £241m on fresh acquisitions.
Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are just some of the notable names – eight in total – that underlined a disastrous and very expensive window.
A single-window record at the time, Chelsea would go on to break their milestone in January of this year after forking out over £350m. Although Boehly has made good on his promise to inject the necessary capital, much like his predecessor Roman Abramovich, his record-breaking expenditure has so far failed to translate to success – in fact, quite the opposite.
Two separate managers sacked and their second-lowest ever finish in the Premier League (12th) typifies a calamitous campaign.
Elsewhere, it is no surprise to see both Manchester clubs follow closely in second and third; United’s heavy investment last summer saw three separate players arrive for £50m plus.
Recently crowned treble winners Manchester City have not topped their single-window record for five years, but the 2017 window has proven to be a hugely successful investment period with the likes of John Stones and club captain Ilkay Gundogan remaining vital squad members.
12 of the 20 teams who will compete in the top flight now have a record summer expenditure that exceeds £100m – a figure that until not that long ago would have been laughably out of reach.
At the other end of the spectrum sit Luton, who were in the National League a decade ago.
Their record summer spree is almost unfathomable given the current climate of transfers, but it is refreshing to know that no matter how many billionaires owners attempt to infiltrate English football, fairytales do still exist.
Despite only spending £1.81m last summer, the Hatters were able to bring in a total of 10 players.
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