Wow! Checkout How Much EPL Clubs Splurged on Signings

 

The Premier League has broken its spending record for the summer transfer window, rising from £835 million in 2014 to £870m in 2015.

 

Financial analysts Deloitte, revealed this.

 

According to the analysis, Manchester City led the way and set a new record for a single club with spending of around £160m on three of the top five deals in the window when taking add-ons into consideration: Wolfsburg's Kevin De Bruyne (£54m), Liverpool's Raheem Sterling (£49m), and Nicolas Otamendi (£32m) from Valencia.

 

Manchester United spent £36m on Monaco striker Anthony Martial and Aston Villa's Christian Benteke cost Liverpool £32.5m to complete the top five and push the summer window to a new record.

 

Deloitte's analysis revealed that Premier League clubs splurged around £90m on deadline day compared to £85m a year ago.

 

Manchester City posted the highest-ever gross spend by a Premier League club in a summer transfer window, spending £160m on new talent this summer.

 

The four Premier League clubs competing in this season's Champions League -- Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United -- had a combined gross transfer spend of £340m (around 40 percent of the total).

 

The next highest spending league was Italy's Serie A, with a gross spend of £405m. Spain's Primera Division was next with a gross spend of £400m, followed by the German Bundesliga with £290m and France's Ligue 1 with £220m.

 

Football League clubs benefited from net transfer fees of around £50m from Premier League clubs.

 

The total at the start of the day stood at £790m - £45m short of the £835m record set last summer -- but Anthony Martial's £36m move from Monaco to Manchester United helped break the record.