Man City leapfrog Chelsea in biggest summer spenders list but quadruple splurge still cheaper than Wirtz
Chelsea are bidding to be the world’s biggest spenders in the summer window for the fourth consecutive season, but Manchester City have overtaken them.
All fees and figures are taken from Transfermarkt. The 20 biggest deals of the summer are here.
10) Burnley – £35.22m
Last season’s loans have been made permanent, with Bashir Humphreys the most expensive of the quartet. Now to persuade somebody not already in Burnley to sign for Burnley…
9) Atalanta – £38.19m
No big-money show-off signings but three players aged 23, 24 and 25 in preparation for the usual round of summer exits.
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8) Brighton – £51.3m
Perhaps in an effort to ensure Fabian Hurzeler has enough of an age gap over at least some of his squad, Brighton have spent a fair whack on three exciting teenagers from Sunderland, Daejeon Hana Citizen and Olympiacos, and the 21-year-old Diego Coppola.
7) Borussia Dortmund – £52.48m
They used the Club World Cup transfer window to bring in Jobe Bellingham and Yan Couto and they could add Jason Sancho.
6) Tottenham – £60.52m
That’s a decent whack of money spent on Kevin Danso, Mathys Tel and Luka Vuskovic before Thomas Frank even gets a say.
5) Juventus – £62.27m
Every penny has so far been spent on making loan signings permanent, with Nico Gonzalez their most expensive purchase.
4) Manchester United – £62.5m
They have completed the most expensive transfer of the summer so far with the capture of Wolves maverick Matheus Cunha, with Bryan Mbeumo likely to follow. We’re not sure where all this money is coming from…
3) Real Madrid – £97.6m
They had already dropped £50m on Dean Huijsen and £8.5m on a few weeks of Trent Alexander-Arnold before they agreed to sign man-child Franco Mastantuono for an awful lot of money.
2) Chelsea – £102.6m
They were the top spenders in the summers of 2024, 2023 and 2022 and will be up there in 2025 thanks to pre-arranged moves for Estevao, Dario Essugo, Mamadou Sarr and Kendry Paez. Throw in the £30m signing of Liam Delap and the Blues are already making very expensive waves.
1) Manchester City – £109.6m
That’s the price of a Rayan Ait-Nouri from Wolves, a Rayan Cherki from Lyon and a Tijanji Reijnders from AC Milan, and all of them feel like bargains. Pep Guardiola wanted Florian Wirtz but he will cost more on his own.