Premier League clubs biggest transfer spenders in summer window – FIFA

Premier League clubs spent almost twice as much on international transfers as the second-biggest spending league, the German Bundesliga, this summer.
Data from FIFA’s Transfer Matching System revealed that teams in England, fuelled by a £2.7 billion-a-season television deal, spent £880 million in the transfer window.
The latest TMS report revealed that the five biggest leagues spent almost three times as much as the rest of the world this summer, with England leading the way.
The summer saw Paul Pogba join Manchester United from Juventus for a record £89.3m, and the FIFA TMS report said: “Just as the Big Five [leagues] stand tall next to all other countries, England towers over France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
“Revenue from television deals is often indicated as one of the causes of this gap, and the most recent deal is believed to be of benefit to all English clubs, both directly and through a trickle-down effect.”

The Premier League’s new domestic and international TV deals are worth £2.7bn a season for the next three years — a source of guaranteed income that has returned England’s top flight to profit and seen total annual incomes soaring across the league.
This huge financial advantage enabled English clubs to spend the £880m total — an eight percent rise on the 2015 summer transfer window — on 470 international transfers.
English football’s net spend, the amount that actually flowed out of the country to other leagues, was a staggering £683m. German clubs were the biggest beneficiaries, earning £171m in transfer trading with England, more than 70 percent of Germany’s total receipts.
English clubs’ outlay on overseas talent was two-and-a-half times what their counterparts in Italy and Spain spent and more than six times what French clubs could afford.
The three biggest international shoppers in England spent almost as much as all of Germany’s clubs. And the depth of English spending was on another level as 26 clubs paid out more than $5m (£3.78m) on international deals.
With all the details of each international transfer having to be logged on the FIFA TMS online platform since 2010, this report is the most accurate annual assessment of the global market.
Total summer spending rose for the fourth straight year to £2.81bn on a record 7,325 transfers but with many of those deals being for out-of-contract players, the average transfer fee fell from £4.15m to £3.93m.
Delving deeper into the 16-page report, other nations that spent record amounts on international deals this summer are China, Portugal and Turkey, although they are still a long way behind even France.
The data also shows a 35 percent year-on-year increase in agents’ fees, with nearly £200m flowing to them this summer.