Summary
Sky Sports have ranked every Premier League club's net spend in the 2025 summer transfer window.
All three newly promoted teams are in the top 12 spenders.
Despite breaking the British transfer record twice, Liverpool do not have the highest net spend.
The Premier League is widely regarded as not only the best league in football but also the most lucrative, as English top flight teams rack up hundreds of millions in every transfer window.
While PSR has limited owners from spending beyond their means in recent seasons, it hasn't stopped English teams from leading the European market year after year, with over £3 billion spent in the summer transfer window by Premier League clubs.
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Bournemouth sit bottom of the net spend list, as the Cherries lost nearly their entire defence in big money moves. Dean Huijsen joined Real Madrid while Milos Kerkez left for Liverpool, with Illia Zabarnyi heading to PSG. South coast rivals Brighton meanwhile received a massive fee from Chelsea for Joao Pedro, who has been a hit already since moving to west London.
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Brentford and Wolves both lost star strikers of their own, with Yoane Wissa moving to Newcastle on deadline day while Matheus Cunha swapped Molineux for Manchester United, and the Red Devils also snapped up Bryan Mbeumo.
Chelsea were extremely industrious in their dealings, selling the likes of Kepa Arrizabalaga, Noni Madueke, Djordje Petrovic, João Félix, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Carney Chukwuemeka, Armando Broja and Christopher Nkunku among others, while Nicolas Jackson's loan move to Bayern Munich is the largest fee for a loan deal ever.
Premier League Clubs' Summer Spending
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15-11
Although Crystal Palace were able to keep hold of Marc Guehi in dramatic circumstances in the closing hours of deadline day, their sale of Eberechi Eze to Arsenal means the Eagles end the summer in the green. Aston Villa made a profit despite late deals for Harvey Elliott and Jadon Sancho, which will worry fans at Villa Park after a troubling start to their domestic campaign.
England's Harvey Elliott celebrates with the player of the tournament trophy after the match with Tyler Morton and James McAtee
England's Harvey Elliott celebrates with the player of the tournament trophy after the match with Tyler Morton and James McAtee
Fulham's club record £35m deal for Brazilian winger Kevin took them into the negative net spend, while Burnley are the lowest promoted side on the list despite signing 14 new players, including experienced heads Kyle Walker and Martin Dubravka to go with young talents like Loum Tchaouna and Bashir Humphreys.
West Ham and Graham Potter finally got their season up and running with a victory over Nottingham Forest, but may harbour little hope of avoiding a relegation battle despite holding onto star man Lucas Paqueta.
|Premier League Clubs' Summer Spending|
|Rank|Club|Gross Spend|Sales|Net Spend|
|15.|Crystal Palace|£48.9m|£67.5m|+£17.7m|
|14.|Aston Villa|£28m|£43m|+£15m|
|13.|Fulham|£35.1m|£8.7|-£26.4m|
|12.|Burnley|£97.7m|£31m|-£66.7m|
|11.|West Ham|£131.3m|£55m|£-76.3m|
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10-6
Manchester City surprisingly only just crack the top ten, with a chunk of the spending for their rebuild under Pep Guardiola done in January. Those winter arrivals were joined by the likes of Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Ait-Nouri this summer.
Despite all the noise surrounding Alexander Isak, Newcastle actually had one of the more productive incoming windows, bringing in Nick Woltemade for a club record £69m fee while Jacob Ramsey adds sky high potential to an already quality midfield.
Nick Woltemade scores for Stuttgart
Nick Woltemade scores for Stuttgart
Evangelos Marinakis led a late flurry of activity at Nottingham Forest in an attempt to keep Nuno Espirito Santo happy, but their greatest piece of business may just be preventing the sale of Morgan Gibbs-White to Tottenham.
Leeds failed to sell a single player for profit this summer, meaning they rank in the top ten after deals for the likes of Anton Stach and Noah Okafor.
Everton, like Forest, waited until late in the window to really get going, but ended up sixth courtesy mainly of their deals for Tyler Dibling and Thierno Barry, although the loan signing of Jack Grealish could prove to be the bargain of the season.
|Premier League Clubs' Summer Spending|
|Rank|Club|Gross Spend|Sales|Net Spend|
|10.|Manchester City|£185.8m|£96m|-£89.8m|
|9.|Newcastle|£256.3m|£157m|-£99.3m|
|8.|Nottingham Forest|£182.5m|£81.5m|-£101m|
|7.|Leeds|£103.1m|£0m|-£103.1m|
|6.|Everton|£124m|£10m|£-114m|
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5-1
The top five sees four very unsurprising big spenders accompanied by Sunderland, who enjoyed a memorable summer, bringing in big name players with Premier League experience, such as Granit Xhaka, along with riskier moves on high ceiling players such as Brighton winger Simon Adingra.
Tottenham captured Randal Kolo Muani on loan in a last-minute move on deadline day, but it was the deals for attacking midfielders Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons that placed them in with the top spenders.
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Manchester United's late deal for goalkeeper Senne Lammens took them into the top three, having reinforced their attack earlier in the window with big money deals for Cunha, Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko.
Liverpool’s sales of players like Jarell Quansah, Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz have helped the Reds to somehow not top the list despite spending nearly £450m on new signings. Indeed, the Reds recouped over £200m more than Arsenal, whose own spending is highlighted by deals for Martin Zubimendi and Viktor Gyokeres.
|Premier League Clubs' Summer Spending|
|Rank|Club|Gross Spend|Sales|Net Spend|
|5.|Sunderland|£183.4m|£42m|-£141.4m|
|4.|Tottenham|£171.2m|£17m|-£154.2m|
|3.|Manchester United|£232.4m|£61.7m|-£170.7m|
|2.|Liverpool|£446.5m|£228.1m|-£218.4m|
|1.|Arsenal|£267m|£10m|-£257m|
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Figures via Sky Sports - accurate as of 02/09/2025.