Premier League spending hurtles towards £3bn mark Sport Business Alexander Isak’s on-off transfer from Newcastle United to Liverpool will not be of interest only to fans and bean-counters on Tyneside and Merseyside. The protracted deal is also one for the transfer data crunchers and historians of English football’s top flight, given that it could represent the passing of multiple financial milestones. Isak’s transfer fee [...]
Premier League clubs break transfer record, spending £2.37bn Sport Business The 20 Premier League clubs have broken the record for the amount spent in a single transfer window, splashing £2.37bn. The transfer of striker Noah Okafor from AC Milan to Leeds United for £18m took the total outlay for the English top flight above the 2023 record of £2.36bn. It comes despite there being another [...]
Premier League clubs pass £2bn in summer spending as record looms Sport Business Premier League clubs have passed £2bn in summer transfer spending as the English top flight closes in on an all-time window record. The continued trickle of transfer fees agreed by Premier League clubs has seen the total spend hit £2.3bn, just £50m short of the 2023 record of £2.36bn. Spending, unsurprisingly, has been fuelled by [...]
Real Madrid pay £10m for Trent Alexander-Arnold ‘free transfer’ May 30, 2025 Real Madrid have given Liverpool £10m to get Trent Alexander-Arnold before the start of the Club World Cup. The England international will join the LaLiga club on 1 June on a six-year deal, when a miniature transfer window opens ahead of an expanded Club World Cup in the United States. It means that, despite leaving [...]
Every Chelsea signing of the Todd Boehly era August 13, 2024 Pedro Neto became Chelsea’s 35th signing since the club were taken over by a consortium led by Todd Boehly. It has seen the Stamford Bridge side’s squad balloon to 42 players, enough (with the academy) to field four different starting XI’s. The £4.25bn purchase of the London club has already seen four managers – Thomas [...]