Six clubs broke their record this summer – Every Premier League team’s most expensive signing

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4 clubs with record of €100m+ 

A theme which has been present in the last few years has very much continued so far in this summer transfer window – Premier League clubs outspending every other division. To date, teams from the Premier League have already spent a combined €1.31 billion on new signings. The next closest league to that figure is Serie A, with their clubs having spent €631.57 million – less than half of the English top-flight.

If we look back across the last five seasons (including summer and winter windows) Premier League clubs have spent a whopping €10.67b. Once again Serie A is second and once again at less than half the figure of the Premier League at €4.46b this time. This unhinged spending by Premier League clubs has led to lots of transfer records being broken. In fact, six Premier League clubs have already broke their club transfer records this summer. So who are the record transfers for each of the 20 Premier League clubs? Let’s take a look.

The record for the entire Premier League still goes to Chelsea and their record signing of midfielder Enzo Fernández for €121m from Benfica in January 2022. The Argentine has scored seven goals and provided five assists in 62 games for the Blues and has a current market value of €75m. Next up it’s Manchester City’s record signing of winger Jack Grealish from Aston Villa for €117.5m in the summer of 2021. He is followed by Arsenal’s transfer record which was the €116.6m acquisition of Declan Rice from West Ham last summer. The fourth and final club to have their record signing stand at over €100m is Manchester United, with the signing of Paul Pogba for €105m from Juventus in 2016 still their record deal.

Darwin Núñez remains Liverpool’s record signing at €85m from Benfica in 2022, whilst for Newcastle it’s still the signing of Alexander Isak for €70m from Real Sociedad the same summer. For Tottenham, it remains the €62m signing of Tanguy Ndombélé from Lyon in 2019. The first team on the list to have broken their transfer record this summer is Aston Villa after signing Amadou Onana from Everton for €59.4m this July. For West Ham it’s striker Sebastian Haller, signed for €50m from Frankfurt in 2019, and for Wolves the deal to bring Matheus Cunha in from Atlético Madrid for €50m in 2023 is their record transfer.

The other five clubs to break their transfer records this summer are Nottingham Forest, Brighton, Brentford, Fulham and Ipswich. Forest forked out €41.7m to bring in Elliot Anderson from Newcastle, whilst Brighton paid the Magpies €35m for Yankuba Minteh. Brentford paid Club Brugge €33m for striker Igor Thiago, Fulham spent €31.8m to bring in Emile Smith Rowe from Arsenal, and Ipswich paid Chelsea €23m for winger Omari Hutchinson.