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Record-breaking worldwide transfer window sees fees top £7bn
This article was originally posted on https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11095/13575723/european-football-news-and-transfers-barcelona-real-madrid-psg-bayern-munich-latest-and-more
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The average cost of a top-end signing in the Premier League has exploded. The £100m-plus player is no longer an outlier, but becoming increasingly commonplace.
A trend started by Jack Grealish’s £100m move from Aston Villa to Manchester City in 2021 has, in effect, snowballed, establishing a new benchmark for elite Premier League talent that continues to send records tumbling.
Fees since have begun to accelerate far beyond general market
The average cost of a top-end signing in the Premier League has exploded. The £100m-plus player is no longer an outlier, but becoming increasingly commonplace.
A trend started by Jack Grealish’s £100m move from Aston Villa to Manchester City in 2021 has, in effect, snowballed, establishing a new benchmark for elite Premier League talent that continues to send records tumbling.
Fees since have begun to accelerate far beyond general market
The Premier League’s financial landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade. Since 2016 total summer transfer spending has risen from £1.16bn to a record £3.19bn in 2025 – an increase of almost 175%.
On the surface, that suggests transfer figures are continuing to accelerate. Headline fees, though, tell only part of the story.
Research by Maguire and colleagues at the University of Liverpool suggests some of the Premier League’s
Championship clubs spent just over £69.5m on agents fees over the past 12 months according to figures released by the Football Association,, external an increase of £6m on the previous year.
The figures cover the period from February 2025 with Ipswich Town the top spenders, paying £11.7m having spent the first three months of the accounting period in the Premier League.
Southampton (£8.3m) and Leicester (£5.8m), who were relegated
Chelsea paid out more than £75m to football agents and intermediaries over the 12-month period to February 2024, as Premier League clubs spent a combined £409.5m.
Manchester City’s outlay on agent fees exceeded £60m, according to figures released by the Football Association detailing payments made by Premier League, EFL
