{"id":23852,"date":"2025-07-25T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23852\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:19:10","slug":"premier-league-transfers-major-clubs-dominate-summer-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23852\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League transfers: Major clubs dominate summer spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool, who won the league by 10 points last season, are top of the list with \u00a3269m spent so far this summer. That includes the purchases of Wirtz and Ekitike, as well as Bournemouth left-back Milos Kerkez for \u00a340.8m and right-back Jeremie Frimpong, who cost almost \u00a335m from Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a contrast to the 2024-25 campaign, when the Anfield outfit&#8217;s only major signings were goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and forward Federico Chiesa, who joined for a combined total of less than \u00a340m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea, fourth in the Premier League last season, have spent the second highest total this summer, with just over \u00a3212m. Their biggest moves have been a deal worth \u00a360m for Brighton forward Joao Pedro, left-winger Jamie Gittens from Borussia Dortmund for \u00a356m, and Ipswich Town striker Liam Delap for \u00a330m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal have been runners-up in each of the past three seasons and they would also pass the \u00a3200m mark with the arrival of Gyokeres, having already spent \u00a3137m. Their major purchases have included Spain midfielder Martin Zubimendi for \u00a360m from Real Sociedad and Chelsea winger Noni Madueke for just under \u00a350m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City finished third last year and did their business early in the summer, with about \u00a3127m spent, largely on the trio of midfielder Tijjani Reijnders from AC Milan, left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri from Wolves and French attacker Rayan Cherki from Lyon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United suffered their worst campaign in the Premier League era when they came 15th. They are the only side outside last season&#8217;s top four to have spent more than Manchester City this summer, but most of their \u00a3133.5m outlay has been on two forwards &#8211; Cameroon international Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford and Brazilian Matheus Cunha from Wolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham finished 17th in the table, but salvaged a disappointing season by winning the Europa League &#8211; beating Manchester United in the final &#8211; although it was not enough to avoid manager Ange Postecoglou getting the sack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurs have since spent \u00a3122.5m under new boss Thomas Frank, with almost half of that in one transfer &#8211; the \u00a355m purchase of midfielder Mohammed Kudus from West Ham, while it cost \u00a330m to turn attacker Mathys Tel&#8217;s loan from Bayern Munich into a permanent deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool, who won the league by 10 points last season, are top of the list with \u00a3269m spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-23852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}