Transfer deadline day 2023: Premier League breaks record as summer spending reaches £2.36bn

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Dominik Szoboszlai, Moises Caicedo and Declan Rice

Another record-breaking transportation model closed connected Friday aft a engaged summertime that saw Premier League clubs splash retired £2.36bn connected caller players

Premier League clubs spent £255m connected deadline time alone, which is much than treble the £120m spent connected deadline time during past summer's window.

That already makes the 2023-24 play person the second-highest transportation walk ever aft past season's grounds £2.73bn, with the January model inactive to come.

Other records include:

Premier League transfers accounted for 48% of full spending crossed the 'big five' European leagues - La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1;
Premier League clubs received £550m successful transportation fees from overseas clubs, much than treble the erstwhile grounds of £210m successful the summertime of 2022;
With the objection of Spain's La Liga, gross transportation walk accrued successful each of Europe's 'big five' leagues;
Only 2 of Europe's 'big five' leagues spent much connected transfers than they received - the Premier League and Ligue 1;
There were 13 Premier League transfers valued astatine implicit £50m, which is much than the erstwhile 2 summertime transportation windows combined.

Tim Bridge, pb spouse successful Deloitte's Sports Business Group, said: "A 2nd successive summertime of grounds spending by Premier League clubs suggests that year-on-year gross maturation could instrumentality pursuing the pandemic

"Nearly 3 quarters of Premier League clubs (14) spent much this summertime than the last, reflecting the accrued strength of competition.

"There continues to beryllium unit connected clubs to get apical endowment to fulfill their on-pitch objectives, whether that's qualifying for European contention oregon simply maintaining their presumption successful the Premier League."

What deals were done connected deadline day?

Matheus Nunes, Brennan Johnson, Ansu Fati and Ryan Gravenberch

The biggest Premier League woody of deadline time saw Manchester City motion Portugal midfielder Matheus Nunes from Wolves for £55m. The Premier League champions besides sold Cole Palmer to Chelsea for £40m.

Manchester United brought successful goalkeeper Altay Bayindir from Fenerbahce for £4.5m, midfielder Sofyan Amrabat connected indebtedness from Fiorentina, afloat backmost Sergio Reguilon connected indebtedness from Tottenham and escaped cause Jonny Evans connected a one-year deal.

Nottingham Forest were the busiest club, signing 7 players, midfielder Ibrahim Sangare from PSV, winger Callum Hudson-Odoi from Chelsea and midfielder Nicolas Dominguez from Bologna.

Other notable deadline time deals included:

Ryan Gravenberch from Bayern Munich to Liverpool for £34.3m.
Ansu Fati from Barcelona to Brighton on loan
Brennan Johnson from Nottingham Forest to Brighton for £45m
Alex Iwobi from Everton to Fulham for £22m
Clement Lenglet from Barcelona to Aston Villa connected loan
Albert Sambi Lokonga from Arsenal to Luton on loan
Mason Greewood from Manchester United to Getafe on loan
Rob Holding from Arsenal to Crystal Palace for £4m
Luis Sinisterra from Leeds to Bournemouth on loan

What were the large transfers of the summer?

Rasmus Hoijund, Jeremy Doku and Alexis Mac Allister

There were 2 transfers that deed the £100m people this summer, with Chelsea signing midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton for a £100m interest that could emergence to a British nine grounds of £115m, portion Arsenal signed England midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham for £100m positive £5m successful add-ons.

Along with deadline time seizure Nunes, Manchester City person bought defender Josko Gvardiol for £77m from RB Leipzig, winger Jeremy Doku from Rennes for £55.4m and midfielder Mateo Kovacic, who arrived for £25m from Chelsea.

Rivals Manchester United signed Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund for £72m, portion chap Champions League broadside Newcastle United brought successful Italy midfielder Sandro Tonali for £55m and Leicester guardant Harvey Barnes for £38m.

Last year's Premier League runners-up Arsenal added to the Rice woody by buying Kai Havertz for £65m and Ajax defender Jurrien Timber for £34m.

Liverpool strengthened their midfield with moves for Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Leipzig for £60m, Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton for £35m and Wataru Endo from Stuttgart for £16.2m.

Best deals from astir Europe

Two of the biggest transfers successful Europe this summertime progressive England players.

Three Lions skipper Harry Kane joined Bayern Munich from Tottenham for £86.4m, portion midfielder Jude Bellingham moved to Real Madrid from Borussia Dortmund for £88.5m.

Barcelona signed Ilkay Gundogan connected a escaped transportation aft the midfielder near Manchester City, earlier sealing deadline time indebtedness moves for City defender Joao Cancelo and Spain guardant Joao Felix from Atletico Madrid.

The astir costly woody of deadline time was Paris St-Germain's seizure of France striker Randal Kolo Muani from Eintracht Frankfurt for £64.2m positive £12.8m successful add-ons.

Chelsea apical spending league

Romeo Lavia, Cole Palmer and Axel Disasi

This was Chelsea's 3rd transportation model nether caller proprietor Todd Boehly and their spending showed nary signs of slowing down.

The London nine spent much than £380m connected 10 players successful this transportation window, much than immoderate different broadside successful Europe. The highest summertime walk by immoderate nine successful the satellite earlier present had been Real Madrid's £292m spree successful 2019.

Chelsea's outlay connected players crossed 3 transportation windows since Boehly took complaint is present adjacent to £1bn.

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Their spending this summertime has been partially offset by important subordinate sales, with 9 players leaving connected imperishable deals, including Havertz to Arsenal and Mason Mount to Manchester United for an archetypal £55m.

Saudi Arabia flexes fiscal muscle

The Saudi Pro League splashed the currency connected an array of planetary stars, including Neymar and Karim Benzema, arsenic the Saudi authorities pushed to marque the league 1 of the astir competitory successful the world.

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund precocious took implicit 4 of the country's apical teams - Al-Ittihad, Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal and Al-Ahli - portion the different 14 top-flight clubs person immoderate big-name players too.

According to Deloitte, Saudi Pro League clubs person truthful acold spent £690.55m (805m Euros), with £245m of that spent connected Premier League players.

It makes the league the fourth-highest spending successful the satellite this summer, down the Premier League, Ligue 1 and Serie A.

And determination could yet beryllium much big-money moves too, with the Saudi transportation model not closing until 7 September.

"The emergence of much progressive participants successful the planetary transportation marketplace has the imaginable to accelerate clubs' efforts to found financially sustainable concern models," said Calum Ross, adjunct manager successful Deloitte's Sports Business Group.

"In this summer's transportation window, clubs that person sold players to those from emerging planetary leagues person past gone connected to walk receipts with a ample fig of different clubs, some wrong and extracurricular of the Premier League.

"This organisation of the caller travel of funds into the marketplace volition beryllium cardinal to ensuring the fiscal benefits of a much progressive planetary marketplace are enjoyed crossed the board, serving to trim alternatively than widen immoderate existing gaps."

Some of the notable departures from the Premier League for Saudi Arabia see Newcastle winger Allan Saint-Maximin and Manchester City's Riyad Mahrez joining Al-Ahli, Wolves skipper Ruben Neves moving to Al-Hilal, Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte joining Al-Nassr and Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson moving to Al-Ettifaq.

The ones that got away

Despite millions of pounds being spent, determination were inactive immoderate deals that did not materialise.

PSG gave Saudi Arabian broadside Al-Hilal support to speech to Kylian Mbappe aft making a world-record £259m bid, but the striker opted to enactment astatine the French champions.

Another Saudi club, Al-Ittihad, had an connection worthy up to £150m for Mohamed Salah rejected by Liverpool.

Joao Pahlinha had agreed presumption with Bayern Munich and adjacent flew to Germany to person a aesculapian connected deadline day, but Fulham were incapable to onslaught a woody with the Bundesliga champions and the determination collapsed.