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All 2024/25 Premier League golf equipment ranked by web spend

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The sum of money being spent on transfers by golf equipment within the Premier League has elevated considerably since its inception in 1992.

Within the 2003/04 season, Premier League golf equipment spent £265 million on transfers in comparison with almost £2.8 billion in the course of the 2022/23 season.

Soccer FanCast has taken a have a look at the online spend of the Premier League golf equipment concerned within the 2024/25 season, together with newly promoted Leicester Metropolis, Ipswich City and Southampton.

All web spend figures are primarily based on Transfermarkt’s expenditure figures from 1992/93 to 2023/24.

Membership

Internet spend

Most costly signing

Most costly departure

Chelsea

-£1.59bn

Enzo Fernandez

Eden Hazard

Manchester Metropolis

-£1.47bn

Jack Grealish

Raheem Sterling

Manchester United

-£1.43bn

Paul Pogba

Cristiano Ronaldo

Arsenal

-£861m

Declan Rice

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Liverpool

-£747m

Virgil van Dijk

Philippe Coutinho

Tottenham Hotspur

-£737m

Tanguy Ndombele

Gareth Bale

Newcastle United

-£637m

Alexander Isak

Andy Carroll

Aston Villa

-£531m

Moussa Diaby

Jack Grealish

West Ham United

-£423m

Lucas Paqueta

Declan RIce

Fulham

-£331m

Jean Michael Seri

Alexsandar Mitrovic

Wolves

-£283m

Matheus Nunes

Matheus Nunes

Everton

-£269m

Gylfi Sugurdsson

Romelu Lukaku

Crystal Palace

-£264m

Christian Benteke

Aaron Wan-Bissaka

Bournemouth

-£250m

Jefferson Lerma

Nathan Ake

Nottingham Forest

-£181m

Ibrahim Sangare

Brennan Johnson

Leicester Metropolis

-£141m

Youri Tielemans

Harry Maguire

Brighton & Hove Albion

-£54m

Joao Pedro

Moises Caicedo

Brentford

-£25m

Igor Thiago

Ollie Watkins

Southampton

-£18m

Kamaldeen Sulemana

Virgil van Dijk

Ipswich City

+£19m

Matteo Sereni

Tyrone Mings

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Chelsea

Internet spend: -£1.59bn

On the very high of the listing, it’s Chelsea.

Chelsea have spent £3.08 billion on 702 gamers and generated £1.49 billion from 693 gamers bought since 1992.

Their most costly signing of all time got here in February 2023, once they signed Benfica midfielder Enzo Fernandez for a British report payment of £107m.

Moises Caicedo – who may but turn out to be their high arrival – Romelu Lukaku and Alvaro Morata all seem of their 10 most costly signings ever. Eden Hazard is Chelsea’s report departure in the course of the Premier League period, having moved to Actual Madrid in July 2019 for simply over £100m.

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Manchester Metropolis

Internet spend: -£1.47bn

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It emerged initially of 2023 that Manchester Metropolis had been hit with 115 Premier League fees for alleged monetary irregularity, so it’s no shock their web spend is among the worst out of all Premier League golf equipment.

It should be famous Man Metropolis have strongly denied all of those fees, which embody 54 for failure to offer correct monetary info, 35 for failure to cooperate with Premier League investigations and 14 for failure to offer correct particulars for participant and supervisor funds.

Throughout their time within the English high flight, Man Metropolis have spent £2.38bn on 706 arrivals and made £910m from 702 participant departures.

Jack Grealish, who didn’t make Gareth Southgate’s England Euro 2024 squad, is their report arrival. Grealish signed for Man Metropolis from Aston Villa in August 2021 for £100m and is arguably but to reside as much as his expectations.

Maybe surprisingly, Raheem Sterling’s switch to Chelsea in July 2022 for £47.5m is Man Metropolis’s most costly departure within the Premier League period.

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Manchester United

Internet spend: -£1.43bn

Manchester United part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

In February 2024, Manchester United followers have been provided a glimmer of hope right into a profitable future when Sir Jim Ratcliffe purchased a 27.7% stake of their membership.

Manchester-born Ratcliffe made an funding price round £1.25bn after he agreed to purchase 25% of the membership’s class B shares – indicating that additional investments are probably within the seasons to return.

This might imply their stage of expenditure within the Premier League period may improve dramatically.

Man United have spent £2.17bn on 538 new signings and generated an earnings of £745m on 543 participant departures over the previous 22 years. They’ve the bottom earnings out of the ‘massive six’ within the Premier League’s historical past.

Their most costly signing of all time is Paul Pogba, who was banned from soccer at the beginning of 2024 for 4 years for a doping offence.

Pogba re-joined the Manchester membership for a world-record switch payment of £89m in August 2016, following profitable campaigns with Juventus. The Frenchman later returned to the Italian facet in July 2022.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the membership’s most costly departure thus far, following his world-record £80m transfer to Actual Madrid in July 2009.

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Arsenal

Internet spend: -£861m

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The north London membership have spent £1.61bn on 507 gamers and made £751m in participant gross sales.

Fortunately for Arsenal followers, the addition of Declan Rice in the summertime of 2023 meant they not needed to quiver at Nicolas Pepe being their most costly signing of all time.

Arsenal signed the Ivory Coast winger from Lille for a membership report payment of £72m in August 2019, however Rice’s arrival for £105m from West Ham made him their priciest buy.

It hasn’t been nice for Arsenal within the gross sales division, as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is their most costly departure of all time and he solely left the membership for £35m.

Oxlade-Chamberlain rejected a transfer to Chelsea to signal for Liverpool on a five-year contract price £120,000 per week in 2017. Arsenal’s report departure sale seems sure to be damaged within the close to future.

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Liverpool

Internet spend: -£747m

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Liverpool have been recognized to spend their cash fairly properly with Jurgen Klopp on the helm, however their web spend within the Premier League period continues to be up there.

The Reds have made the second-most, behind Chelsea, in participant gross sales, having generated an earnings of £1.03bn from departures because the 1992/93 season. Liverpool’s expenditure sits at £1.78bn on 551 gamers, which, for any mathematicians on the market, averages out at £3.2m per participant signed.

Liverpool followers can be delighted to listen to that their most costly signing of all time has arguably been their finest participant within the final decade.

Virgil van Dijk signed for the Merseyside membership on the flip of the brand new yr in 2018 for £75m, in what was a world-record deal for a defender on the time.

They may even be fairly glad to study that they’ve acquired the highest-ever payment for a participant leaving the Premier League. Barcelona signed Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool in January 2018 for a whopping £105m upfront payment – a British report – that had the potential to rise to £142m in add-ons.

Coutinho had a buyout clause of £355m and stays Barcelona’s most-expensive signing of all time, on a par with Ousmane Dembele – who joined from Borussia Dortmund.

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Tottenham Hotspur

Internet spend: -£737m

Ange Postecoglou and Daniel Levy.

Tottenham Hotspur have spent £1.66bn on 640 gamers and acquired £930m from 647 departures throughout their time within the Premier League.

Nearly all of expertise that has arrived on the north London membership has been lately, with the likes of Richarlison, Brennan Johnson, Cristian Romero and James Maddison all within the membership’s high 5 report arrivals.

Nonetheless, Spurs followers received’t like to listen to that their most costly signing of all time didn’t fairly work out for them.

In July 2019, Tottenham introduced the addition of then-22-year-old Tanguy Ndombele on a six-year deal, which might’ve seen him on the membership till 2025. However the £63m signing hardly ever showcased his expertise throughout his time on the membership, which noticed him go on mortgage again to his mum or dad membership Lyon, in addition to Napoli and most lately Galatasaray, since he put pen to paper.

Spurs do have an excellent report in relation to shifting gamers on – Gareth Bale joined Actual Madrid for a world-record switch payment of £85m in September 2013.

The Welshman agreed a six-year deal price £300,000 and the transfer eclipsed the earlier report that Madrid held once they signed Cristiano Ronaldo for £80m in 2009.

Tottenham additionally acquired £86.4m for Harry Kane when the England captain made his determination to affix German giants Bayern Munich. Kyle Walker, Dimitar Berbatov and Luka Modric are different notable gamers who’ve left the membership for large cash.

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Newcastle United

Internet spend: -£637m

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Newcastle United have spent nearly all of their cash because the Saudi Arabia Public Funding Fund (PIF) purchased an 80% stake within the membership for £300m in October 2021.

In whole, they’ve spent £1.22bn on 569 gamers within the Premier League period. The north-east membership have amassed the bottom whole up to now on this listing for participant gross sales, having acquired £589m from 565 gamers.

Alexander Isak is the membership’s most costly purchase, whereas Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Harvey Barnes, who’ve all joined the membership because the takeover, all seem on the high of the listing.

Isak grew to become PIF’s fourth signing when he joined the membership within the 2022 summer time switch window. He signed for Newcastle from Actual Sociedad for round £60m and scored 10 objectives in 17 Premier League appearances in his first season.

Andy Carroll is the membership’s most costly departure. He joined Liverpool for a club-record payment of about £35m in January 2011 – a report which nonetheless stands.

Moussa Sissoko to Spurs, Ayoze Perez to Leicester Metropolis and Georginio Wijnaldum to Liverpool have all been vital transfers for Newcastle when it comes to earnings.

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Aston Villa

Internet spend: -£531m

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Aston Villa’s tally of 68 factors come the tip of the 2023/24 season meant the membership secured Champions League qualification for the primary time because it’s 90s revamp. So, it’s becoming that almost all of their present expertise high the switch historical past books.

Six of Aston Villa’s seven most costly signings began 20 or extra video games in the course of the 2023/24 season. Moussa Diaby is the membership’s priciest buy, and except for the injury-prone Emiliano Buendia in second, the remainder of the highest seven is made up of their present finest gamers, reminiscent of Ollie Watkins, Pau Torres and Leon Bailey.

Villa signed Diaby from Bayer Leverkusen in July 2023 for an undisclosed payment that was reported to be across the £50m mark.

As for gamers going the opposite method, Villa have been largely unsuccessful aside from one enormous current switch which noticed the membership soak up £100m.

This, in fact, was the switch of Jack Grealish, who left the Villians to affix Manchester Metropolis in August 2021. It was a British-record payment on the time, and nonetheless is, with Declan Rice’s transfer to Arsenal doubtlessly overtaking it as soon as add-ons are taken into consideration.

Christian Benteke, Stewart Downing, James Milner and Cameron Archer make up the remainder of the highest 5.

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West Ham United

Internet spend: -£423m

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It was West Ham who benefited from the sale of Declan Rice to Arsenal because the England midfielder moved to north London for a whopping £100m plus £5m in add-ons in the course of the summer time of 2023.

He’s West Ham’s most costly departure thus far, with Dimitri Payet’s £25m switch to Marseille not even shut in second.

West Ham have spent £1.1bn on 673 arrivals within the Premier League period, whereas producing a complete £650m earnings from the sale of 672 gamers.

The Hammers introduced that they had signed Lucas Paqueta for a club-record payment in August 2022. The preliminary £36.5m deal for the Brazilian is anticipated to rise above £50m primarily based on add-ons, that means the switch surpasses the addition of Sebastien Haller for £45m from Eintracht Frankfurt in 2019.

Mohammed Kudus, Edson Alvarez, Felipe Anderson and Kurt Zouma all seem on the high of West Ham’s switch books.

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Fulham

Internet spend: -£331m

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Fulham have generated simply £278m from 673 participant transfers in Premier League historical past, that means they’ve the least whole earnings on the listing up to now. This averages out at simply over £400,000 per participant signed.

The Cottagers have spent £609m on the very same quantity of gamers, with the addition of Jean Michael Seri from OGC Good being the priciest of the lot.

Aleksandar Mitrovic is the membership’s most costly departure of all time. He joined Saudi Professional League facet Al-Hilal for a membership report payment of round £50m in August 2023 and scored 28 league objectives in his debut season.

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Wolves

Internet spend: -£283m

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Wolves’ switch enterprise within the Premier League has largely been formed by the affect of super-agent Jorge Mendes, with loads of Portuguese expertise heading to Molineux because the Previous Gold’s promotion in 2018.

Following in Mitrovic’s footsteps, Ruben Neves was one other participant who grew to become Wolverhampton Wanderers’ most costly departure after becoming a member of Al-Hilal, although he was succeeded by Matheus Nunes when Man Metropolis snapped him up for £53m two months later.

Neves had shockingly joined the Saudi Arabian facet for a membership report £47m, however it was Nunes’ deal – which included a ten% sell-on clause – that now tops their report departures listing.

Nunes, surprisingly, can be the membership’s most costly signing. Wolves broke their switch report in August 2022 to signal the midfielder from Sporting CP for £38m earlier than promoting him only one yr later.

Wolves have purchased the best variety of gamers on the listing up to now, having spent £716m on 785 gamers in the course of the Premier League period. And like Fulham, Wolves have bought the identical quantity of gamers as they’ve signed, producing a complete of £785m earnings.

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Everton

Internet spend: -£269m

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With their new stadium set to be prepared for the 2025/26 season, Everton should tread rigorously in relation to making any future signings, with the membership having already been hit with a factors deduction for breaching Premier League monetary guidelines.

By way of the larger image, the Merseyside membership broke their switch report once they bought Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea Metropolis for £45m in August 2017. He stays Everton’s most costly signing thus far.

Everton have spent £1bn on 502 gamers throughout their time within the Premier League, whereas producing £745m in earnings from 501 departures.

Romelu Lukaku is Everton’s report departure, with Richarlison, John Stones and Anthony Gordon shut behind.

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Crystal Palace

Internet spend: -£264m

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Crystal Palace have made £220m from 640 participant gross sales because the Premier League’s inception, whereas spending £493m on 635 arrivals.

Latest information that star man Michael Olise will be a part of Bayern Munich subsequent season for simply over £50m signifies that Palace may have a brand new report sale on their books.

The Eagles bought Aaron Wan-Bissaka to Man United for a club-record payment of round £45m in July 2019. It was United’s fifth most costly signing of all time.

Christian Benteke is Palace’s report signing, forward of Mamadou Sakho and Marc Guehi. Like Sakho, Benteke left Liverpool to affix Palace.

Benteke’s arrival at Selhurst Park in August 2016 set Palace again an preliminary £27m plus £5m in add-ons. The Belgian scored 35 Premier League objectives throughout his six seasons on the membership.

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Bournemouth

Internet spend: -£250m

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Bournemouth signed Jefferson Lerma from Spanish facet Levante for a club-record payment of £25m in August 2018. The payment paid by the Cherries broke their earlier report of round £20m to usher in Nathan Ake from Chelsea the earlier season.

Ake would make 115 appearances for Bournemouth within the Premier League and set up himself as certainly one of their greatest-ever gamers. Eddie Howe, supervisor on the time, would have been thanked for welcoming the Netherlands worldwide to the Vitality Stadium, because the defender would turn out to be their report departure.

Manchester Metropolis signed the Bournemouth defender on a five-year contract for £40m in August 2020. Tyrone Mings, Callum Wilson and Aaron Ramsdale have additionally been worthwhile gross sales for the membership.

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Nottingham Forest

Internet spend: -£181m

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Nottingham Forest have bought 780 gamers for £248m and signed a complete of 776 for £428m in the course of the Premier League period.

In the summertime of 2022, a newly promoted Forest broke the British report for signing probably the most gamers in a switch window after welcoming 21 new gamers to their squad.

Considered one of these gamers was Morgan Gibbs-White, who arrived on Trentside from Wolves for a club-record payment of £25m. He was the membership’s report switch till Forest signed PSV midfielder Ibrahim Sangare for round £30m in September 2023.

Brennan Johnson stays the membership’s report departure by far. The Welshman joined Tottenham Hotspur on a six-year deal for £45m in the identical window because the addition of Sangare.

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Leicester Metropolis

Internet spend: -£141m

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Newly promoted Leicester Metropolis have one of many healthiest web spend balances out of all Premier League golf equipment within the 2024/25 season. That is largely as a result of whopping £538m they’ve generated from a complete of 656 participant gross sales.

Leicester have been the most effective golf equipment within the English high flight lately for promoting their star gamers for the utmost sum of money doable.

Harry Maguire is their report departure. He joined Man United for £80m in August 2019, which was not solely an English report, however a world-record payment for a defender.

Wesley Fofana, Ben Chilwell, Danny Drinkwater and N’Golo Kante have all been bought to Chelsea since their historic Premier League season for large cash, whereas Riyad Mahrez and James Maddison are different notable gross sales.

On the reverse finish of the size, Leicester signed Youri Tielemans from Monaco for a club-record payment of £35m in July 2019 – he stays their most costly addition.

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Brighton & Hove Albion

Internet spend: -£54m

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Brighton have reaped the rewards lately for creating lesser-known gamers and turning them into established Premier League regulars.

Their most costly departure, Moises Caicedo, was signed from Ecuadorian facet Independiente del Valle for £4.5m in June 2021.

Three years later, Chelsea signed the Brighton midfielder for a fairly exceptional £115m, with Marc Cucurella, Ben White, Alexis Mac Allister and Yves Bissouma all following comparable traits of shifting to larger Premier League golf equipment.

In June 2023, Brighton accomplished the club-record signing of Joao Pedro, who made the swap from Watford for a payment of just below £30m.

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Brentford

Internet spend: -£25m

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Brentford have spent much less cash on gamers within the Premier League period than present Championship golf equipment Blackburn Rovers, Norwich Metropolis, Swansea Metropolis and Birmingham Metropolis. They’ve spent £208m on 683 gamers, whereas making £184m from 674 departures.

In February 2023, it was introduced that Brentford would pay in extra of £30m with add-ons to signal Igor Thiago, who scored 26 objectives for Membership Brugge within the 2023/24 season.

This switch would make Thiago Brentford’s most costly signing forward of Nathan Collins, who signed from Wolves for £23m.

Brentford bought Ollie Watkins to Aston Villa for £28m in September 2020, and he stays the membership’s report departure.

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Southampton

Internet spend: -£18m

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Southampton have the bottom adverse web spend out of each Premier League staff within the 2024/25 season. The Saints have spent £743m on 630 gamers in the course of the Premier League period however made an enormous £725m on 644 participant departures.

Liverpool have been concerned with two of Southampton’s report departures. Virgil van Dijk joined the Anfield membership for £75m in December 2017 and Sadio Mane additionally did the identical six months earlier for £34m.

Romeo Lavia is the Saints’ second-most costly departure. The Belgium midfielder joined Chelsea for £53m in August 2023 as a 19-year-old.

Southampton’s £22m plus bonuses deal for winger Kamaldeen Sulemana is their report switch signing, forward of Danny Ings’ arrival from Liverpool.

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Ipswich City

Internet spend: +£19m

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Ipswich City have the one constructive web spend out of all present top-flight golf equipment. They’ve spent simply £84m on 676 gamers within the Premier League period and bought 669 gamers for a complete of £103m.

They’ve spent much less cash than some League One golf equipment, reminiscent of Studying, Wigan and Charlton Athletic. Nonetheless, it’s anticipated that the membership should spend massive cash quickly for any hope of Premier League survival.

Matteo Sereni is the membership’s report signing. The goalkeeper joined from Italian facet Sampdoria for simply over £5m in 2001. Tyrone Mings is Ipswich’s report departure. He joined Bournemouth for £8m in 2015.

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