The Premier League clubs spent more than ever in the summer transfer window 2025, with a total spending this summer exceeded the £ 3 billion mark.
As of August 31, a total of £ 2.73 billion, but big transactions on the last day of the transfer – Typically, the transfer of Alexander Isak from Newcastle to Liverpool with a record price of England was £ 125 million – pushed the total amount to £ 3.087 billion.
This spending level is significantly higher than last summer, when the money that the top teams spent was 1.96 billion pounds. The total amount of money this year is more than the total amount that the Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A clubs combined.
What are the big transactions on the last day?
The last day of the transfer period was quite quiet, the big transactions were not published until the transfer window was closed at 19:00 (local time), although the moves could still be completed two hours later if the transaction procedures were completed in time.
The transfer of Isak was confirmed at 21:30, but the transfer move expected for the British defender, Marc Guehi finally did not take place because Crystal Palace did not accept the transfer because they had difficulty finding the replacement of their captain.
After confirming the departure of the Isak striker, Newcastle later announced the appearance of Younge Wissa from Brentford for £ 55 million. Other notable agreements include Fulham's completion of the club's record of £ 34.6 million to sign a contract with the Brazilian winger, Shakhtar Donetsk's Kevin.
MU has recruited the Belgian goalkeeper, Senne Lampens from Royal Antwerp at the initial price of 18.1 million pounds, while Red Devils's Jadon Sanchs winger completed a loan contract to a season to Aston Villa, the team also signed Liverpool midfielder Elliott of Liverpool with the option to buy.
Tottenham borrowed PSG striker Randal Koli Muorni for a season, while Arsenal borrowed defender Piero Hincapie from Leverkusen, and pushed the defenders Jakub Kiwior (Porto) and Oleksandr Zinchenko (Nottingham) to leave as well as loan.
Sunderland, a newly promoted team, continued to spend strongly in the summer when recruiting Ajax's Brian Brobbey and Bertrand strikers, as well as RB Lutsharel Geertruida defender of RB Leipzig on a loan in a season.
Which team spends the most?
After not participating in the transfer market in the first summer Arne Slot in power last year, Liverpool went in the opposite direction this time. The recruitment of Isak has raised their summer spending to 415 million pounds – set a new record for the amount of money a spending club in a transfer period. The previous record was set by Chelsea in the summer of 2023 (£ 400 million).
This figure is not only more than any other European club but also close to the total amount of spending in other European tournaments.
“A excessive show of Liverpool. The moves and money they spend are extraordinarily spent and they brought some excellent players,” the former Man City goalkeeper, Joe Hart said on the Monday Night Club program of BBC Radio 5 Live.
Chelsea and Arsenal also made great moves when they sought to strengthen the squad to compete more fiercely for the championship, spending £ 285 million and £ 255 million respectively. But the Blues are also very good at selling players, when sales are 288 million pounds, bringing net profit of 3 million pounds, while Arsenal, on the contrary, only sold £ 9 million at a net cost of 246 million pounds.
What is the spending of the Premier League overwhelming the rest of Europe?
Except for Isak's move between Premier League clubs, many big contracts this summer are related to contracts from Europe.
For example, Liverpool brought Florian Wirtz from Leverkusen for £ 116 million, Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt for £ 79 million, Jeremie Frimpong defender from Leverkusen for £ 29.5 million, Giorgi Mamardashvili goalkeeper from Valencia for 29 million pounds and Giovani Leoni from Parma at the price of 26 million tables.
In other popular deals, Arsenal spent a total of £ 114.5 million to bring striker Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting and midfielder Martin Zubimendi from Sociedad, while Man United signed a contract with striker Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig for £ 73.7 million.
Premier League clubs buy players from European tournaments will help Bundesliga, La Liga and Ligue 1 end the transfer period with a net profit of over £ 400 million.
The rookie boldly tried to relegation
In the last two seasons, all three teams promoted from the First Division, he immediately released. Therefore, with the challenge of relegation in the Premier League more and more difficult, all three newly promoted clubs have acted in order to change that situation.
Sunderland, the new team returned to the highest ranking after 8 years of absence, spent more than half of the other Premier League clubs (162 million pounds), ranked 8th in the most spending.
The former Premier League striker, Chris Sutton said: “In the past few years, the promotion clubs have dropped continuously. I am surprised at Sunderland's spending, but they have created themselves the opportunity to relegation.”
Both Burnley and Leeds also spent about £ 100 million in this transfer to try to make sure they were best equipped to relegation, more than Aston Villa, Brentford, Crystal Palace and Fulham.