Premier League manager spending: The statistics

Matt Stead

By the way, we’re aware that transfer windows weren’t even a thing until 2002, but this is the only fair way of doing it. So, for example, when Arsene Wenger was in charge of Nancy from summer 1984, that is classed as his first transfer window. Please do try and deal with it.


Antonio Conte (Chelsea)

Overall career expenditure: £320.69m (5th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £22.86m (3rd)

Expenditure per player: £6.29m (6th)

Expenditure per trophy: £53.34m (7th)

 

Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham)

Overall career expenditure: £231m (11th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £15.4m (7th)

Expenditure per player: £7.45m (4th)

Expenditure per trophy: N/A (joint 18th)

 

Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool)

Overall career expenditure: £241.02m (10th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £11.47m (9th)

Expenditure per player: £4.09m (11th)

Expenditure per trophy: £48.2m (6th)

 

Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)

Overall career expenditure: £644.73m (3rd)

Expenditure per transfer window: £40.29m (1st)

Expenditure per player: £16.12m (1st)

Expenditure per trophy: £30.7m (2nd)

 

Jose Mourinho (Manchester United)

Overall career expenditure: £1.08bn (1st)

Expenditure per transfer window: £36m (2nd)

Expenditure per player: £11.98m (2nd)

Expenditure per trophy: £45m (5th)

 

Arsene Wenger (Arsenal)

Overall career expenditure: £687.12m (2nd)

Expenditure per transfer window: £11.6m (8th)

Expenditure per player: £7.01m (5th)

Expenditure per trophy: £36.16m (4th)

 

Ronald Koeman (Everton)

Overall career expenditure: £284.14m (7th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £9.16m (10th)

Expenditure per player: £4.44m (10th)

Expenditure per trophy: £35.51m (3rd)

 

West Brom (Tony Pulis)

Overall career expenditure: £210.92m (12th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £5.4m (16th)

Expenditure per player: £2.45m (17th)

Expenditure per trophy: N/A (joint 18th)

 

Claude Puel (Southampton)

Overall career expenditure: £271.89m (8th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £9.06m (11th)

Expenditure per player: £4.94m (7th)

Expenditure per trophy: £135.94m (11th)

 

Walter Mazzarri (Watford)

Overall career expenditure: £271.21m (9th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £8.74m (12th)

Expenditure per player: £3.66m (12th)

Expenditure per trophy: £271.21m (13th)

 

Mark Hughes (Stoke)

Overall career expenditure: £405m (4th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £18.4m (4th)

Expenditure per player: £7.5m (3rd)

Expenditure per trophy: N/A (joint 18th)

 

Craig Shakespeare has not yet experienced the joy of a transfer kitty/warchest as a manager.

 

Slaven Bilic (West Ham)

Overall career expenditure: £159.66m (14th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £15.96m (5th)

Expenditure per player: £4.56m (9th)

Expenditure per trophy: N/A (joint 18th)

 

Sean Dyche (Burnley)

Overall career expenditure: £72.53m (16th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £6.59m (14th)

Expenditure per player: £3.02m (14th)

Expenditure per trophy: £72.53m (8th)

 

Sam Allardyce (Crystal Palace)

Overall career expenditure: £207.09m (13th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £5.17m (17th)

Expenditure per player: £2.80m (15th)

Expenditure per trophy: £103.54m (10th)

 

Eddie Howe (Bournemouth)

Overall career expenditure: £94.95m

Expenditure per transfer window: £5.58m (15th)

Expenditure per player: £2.79m (16th)

Expenditure per trophy: £94.95m (9th)

 

Marco Silva (Hull)

Overall career expenditure: £38.41m (18th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £3.49m (18th)

Expenditure per player: £1.67m (18th)

Expenditure per trophy: £12.8m (1st)

 

Paul Clement (Swansea)

Overall career expenditure: £46.31m (17th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £15.43m (6th)

Expenditure per player: £3.56m (13th)

Expenditure per trophy: N/A (joint 18th)

 

Steve Agnew has not yet experienced the joy of a transfer kitty/warchest as a manager.

 

David Moyes (Sunderland)

Overall career expenditure: £298.27m (6th)

Expenditure per transfer window: £8.06m (13th)

Expenditure per player: £4.66m (8th)

Expenditure per trophy: £149.13m (12th)