Transfer window in numbers: Man Utd & rivals break records

Liverpool joined Manchester United in spending more than £100m, thanks in part to their £75m sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona in the third biggest transfer ever.

Their outlays totalled £117m, with almost £50m going to Southampton for Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren and Rickie Lambert.

Chelsea did their business early, paying £91.3m in total on deals including Diego Costa and Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid and Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas.

Arsenal followed up last year’s dramatic £42.4m signing of Mesut Ozil by spending £82m in the window, with two big-name strikers coming in – Barcelona’s Alexis Sanchez for £35m and Manchester United’s Danny Welbeck for £16m.

Manchester City bought £50m worth of players and Southampton about £58m (although they received £92m for sales). Newcastle and Hull – also the busiest team on deadline day with four signings – spent more than £30m each.

The four Premier League clubs in this season’s Champions League had a combined transfer spend of £342m – over 40% of the total Premier League outlay. Add in Manchester United’s 18% and that is almost 60% by a quarter of the teams in the English top flight.

Six of the 20 Premier League clubs made their record signings this summer – Manchester United, Everton, Hull, Leicester, West Brom and Crystal Palace.

Dan Jones, partner at Deloitte’s Sport Business Group, said: “Last season the average Premier League club received around £25m more in central broadcast distributions than they did in 2012-13, which helped fuel a record transfer window last summer.

“We are again seeing Premier League clubs use these resources to contribute to what is a new record this summer.”