Premier League Clubs Break Window Record: Transfer spending crosses £ 2.36 billion

The transfer expenditure of the Premier League reached record levels with more than a week of trade to go, as promoted Leeds United signed AC Milan Voorah Okafor for a reported £ 18 million ($ 24.17 million) on Thursday.

The arrival of Okafor on Elland Road, after the signing of Bournemouth by Amine Adli van Bayer Leverkusen, pushed the total expenditure further than the £ 2.36 billion in the summer window of 2023, according to Footballtransfers.com.

Various other Big Money deals between now and the closure of the window, including the likely sale of Ebereechi Eze from Crystal Palace to Arsenal, average spending by the most lucrative competition in the world can even hit £ 3 billion.

While the list of large spenders is crowned by champions Liverpool (£ 289 million), Chelsea (£ 246 million), Manchester United (£ 208 million) and Arsenal (£ 194 million), even clubs with smaller resources splash the money.

Six clubs have broken their transfer records, including Liverpool who pay £ 100 million, and another £ 16 million in add-on payments, to Bayer Leverkusen for Florian Wirtz.

Burnley set a new club record by paying £ 25 million for Chelsea midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu, while Fellow Promoted Club Sunderland did the same by signing midfielder Habib Dianra for £ 26 million from Strasbourg, part of a £ 142 million Squad-enhancing Drive.

Although he is eight seasons outside the Premier League, Sunderland has spent more than every club in Europe’s other top competitions, apart from Spain’s Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid.

Nottingham Forest broke his transfer record twice during the current window in which it has spent almost £ 150 million, including the signing sessions of Switzerland -Vleugel player than Ndoye from Bologna and winger Omari Hutchison from the city of Ipswich.

The best through the first competition of England this summer is more than that of the Italian Serie A, the German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1 and Spain’s Laliga.

Serie A is in second place on the spending list with around £ 783 million on player investments, although the clubs of the competition have recovered more than those in the sale.

The muscle of the Premier League in the transfer market is largely explained by huge broadcasting deals. This season is the first of a four-year-old domestic TV rights Deal worth a record of £ 6.7 billion.

Published on August 21, 2025