Transfers Summer 2024 - by Club

Want What You Got

In yesterday’s article I looked at this summer’s transfer window, focusing on the major movements, which I will further explore today with details of the individual player purchases and sales for each club in the Premier League.

As a reminder of the approach, the figures have been sourced from Transfermarkt with an assumed 20% uplift for agent fees (in order to be consistent with the treatment used in club accounts). The adjusted total cost is then converted from Euros to GBP at an exchange rate of 1.18.

Other points:

• Free transfers excluded

• Loan transfers included

• Add-ons excluded

The review by club will be in alphabetical order.

Arsenal

Arsenal’s £112m gross spend was their lowest since the 2018/19 season, which was not overly surprising, given that they had splashed out around half a billion pounds in the previous two seasons.

Their largest purchases were Riccardo Calafiori from Bologna and Mikel Merino from Real Sociedad, while David Raya’s loan from Brentford was made permanent.

The Gunners also sold well, as their £92m was the highest the club has made from player sales since 2017/18, including two Academy products, Emile Smith Rowe to Fulham and Eddie Nketiah to Crystal Palace, plus Aaron Ramsdale to Southampton.

Their net spend was only £19m, which was firmly in the bottom half of the Premier League. You have to go back as far as 2012/13 for the last time it was this low.

Arsenal also made two important loan signings on deadline day, namely Raheem Sterling from Chelsea (reportedly paying less than half of his wages) and Neto from Bournemouth.

Aston Villa

Villa spent big this summer, but also recouped a lot of money via player sales.

The £183m gross spend was their second highest ever, only surpassed by £204m in 2021/22, and the fourth highest in the Premier League this summer.