Premier League clubs spent £1.24billion during the summer transfer window - but how much did your team spend?
The total expenditure was just over £200m shy of last
summer's total but smashed the £1billion threshold for a third year
running.Liverpool splashed the most cash with an outlay of £177m - shelling out £67m on Roma stopper Alisson, in addition to adding Naby Keita (£52.8m), Fabinho (£43.7m) and Xherdan Shaqiri (£13.5m) to their ranks.
Incredibly, Fulham were next on the list with £105.3m - becoming the first newly-promoted club to smash the £100m transfer threshold in a window.
Manuel Pellegrini's West Ham spent £99m, followed by Everton (£88.5m), Manchester United (£81.7m), Arsenal (£70.6m), Manchester City, Wolves and Southampton.
At the other end of the scale, Tottenham did not spend a penny or sign a single player, while Crystal Palace were also frugal spenders with £9.5m on three players - including scooping Schalke youngster Max Meyer on a free transfer.
Other clubs that spent below-average totals included Burnley (£18.5m), Newcastle (£22.5m), Watford (£24m), Cardiff (£29m), Brighton (£31.3m) and Bournemouth (£47.2m).
Income from transfers
Leicester topped the league for player sales, cashing in £60m from the sale of Riyad Marez to Manchester City, while Newcastle collected £43.5m - primarily from selling Aleksandar Mitrovic (£27m) and Mikel Merino (£10m).Watford collected £40m from Richarlison's move to Everton and Chelsea mitigated their outlays after receiving £35m for Thibaut Courtois and £3.5m for Jeremie Boga.
Tottenham did not receive any notable cash from player sales and recorded a neutral balance during the window - despite offloading seven players, two for undisclosed fees.
Like Spurs, Crystal Palace, Burnley, Cardiff and Fulham all retained their key players and failed to make any cash from sales over the summer.
In terms of the overall net spend, Newcastle made the most with the accounts boosted by £21m from overall transfer activity, while Watford (+£16m) were the only other club to record positive figures.
Fulham also drafted a league-topping five players on loan, while Wolves signed three players on a temporary basis, and Newcastle and Cardiff both loaned two.
In terms of loaning out players, Chelsea topped the pack again with 22 players shipped out for experience, followed by Manchester City (13), Liverpool (10), Everton and Watford (both seven).






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