The summer transfer window is now closed. There were some surprise home and abroad.
Team Spent (m) Received (m) Net (m) Arsenal £16.75 £12.00 -£4.75 Aston Villa £29.00 £5.50 -£23.50 Blackpool £14.75 £0.00 -£14.75 Bolton Wonderers £9.75 £8.75 -£1.00 Burnley £2.80 £8.00 £5.20 Chelsea £53.00 £24.50 -£28.50 Everton £5.50 £13.25 £7.75 Fulham £20.00 £17.00 -£3.00 Liverpool £25.00 £35.00 £10.00 Manchester City £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Manchester Utd £0.00 £4.25 £4.25 Newcastle Utd £25.00 £13.50 -£11.50 Norwich City £24.50 £11.50 -£13.00 Southampton £12.25 £0.53 -£11.73 Stoke City £22.00 £10.25 -£11.75 Swansea £27.50 £22.50 -£5.00 Tottenham Hotspur £34.00 £19.50 -£14.50 West Bromwich Albion £6.50 £13.50 £7.00 West Ham Utd £15.50 £0.58 -£14.93 Wolverhampton Wonderers £16.00 £18.25 £2.25 Total £359.80 £238.35 -£121.45
Arsenal’s biggest transfer was ex Liverpool central defender Sebstian Coates from Sampdoria £10.5m.
Aston Villa cranked up their spending this summer with the signings of Ryad Boudebouz from Chelsea for £7m, Lucas Zen from Betis for £9.25m and Maciej Sadlok from Terek for £6m.
Blackpool had another big spending summer with Paul Pogba from Rennes for £6m being their biggest transfer and Vadis Odjidjo from Totthenham Hotspur for £4.1m adding more steel to their midfield.
Bolton Wonderers spread their money over serveral players inlcuding Celso Borges from Bologna for £3.2m, Eren Derdiyak from Leverkusen for £2.1m and Vagif Cavadov from FC Kobenhavn for £3.2m.
Burnley decided against spending big instead offloaded some of their players including Brian Easton to West Ham United for £4.4m and Chuks Aneke to Swansea from £3.3m.
Chelsea were the biggest spenders in the Premier League with the signings of Henrik Mkhitaryan from Juventus for £8.5m, Yaroslav Rakitskyi from Shakhter for £10.75m, Sime Vrsaljko from Espanyol for £16.75m, Artjoms Rudnevs from Sunderland for £7.75m, Chris Wood from Norwich for £7.5m. At the same offloaded just under half of the amount they spent with Asamoah Gyan going to FC Dallas for £3m, Jelle Vossen to Portland for £6.75m and Gael Kakuta to Nice for £3.8m.
I have offload Mathieu Peybernes to AC Milan for £4.7m, Nico Perrey to Union Berlin for £800k, Abdoul Karim Sylla to WBA for £2.6m, Phil Jameson to Newcastle for £1.2m after his agent wanted to keep the annual 10% increase in wage clause in his client’s contract [...]