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Above
is a list of the “TOP FOUR” transfer/ fees during
the 2016-17 summer transfer
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Premier League clubs
spent more than £155m on transfer deadline day as the summer window outlay
reached a record £1.165bn.
BBC
Sport report continues:
Teams
had already spent a combined £1.005bn as of 08:30 BST on Wednesday, shattering
last year's record £870m.
Thirteen
top-flight teams broke their own transfer records.
The
20 clubs in the Premier League have benefited from a record £5.1bn television
deal which came into effect this season.
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Above
is a list of the biggest fees spent by Premier League clubs during the 2016-17
summer transfer window
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"The
increases in broadcast revenue, with the 2016-17 season being the first of the
new broadcast deal cycle, is the principal driver of this spending power,"
said Dan Jones, a partner at financial analyst Deloitte.
Other key findings
(source Deloitte):
o The average gross spend
for a Premier League club in the 2016 summer window was about £60m.
o The total of £155m spent
by Premier League clubs on deadline day broke the previous record of £140m set
during the summer 2013 window.
o The four Premier League
clubs competing in this season's Champions League - Arsenal, Leicester City,
Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur - had a combined gross transfer spend of
about £385m - representing about a third of the aggregate gross transfer spend
by Premier League clubs.
o Since the introduction of
the transfer window, gross transfer spending has exceeded £8.6bn, with more than
80% spent in the summer window.
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The
graphic above shows the order of the amount spent by Europe's 'big five'
leagues. After the Premier League, the next highest spender was Serie A, with a
gross spend of £590m. Then came the Bundesliga with a spending of £460m,
followed by La Liga (£400m) and Ligue 1 (£165m).
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