By our count, the three players who appear on this transfer record list more than once are Fernando Torres, Andy Carroll and Rio Ferdinand. Hm.

ARSENAL
Andrei Arshavin – £ 15 million (Zenit St. Petersburg, February 2009)

Mesut Özil – £ 42.5m (Real Madrid, September 2013)

Alexandre Lacazette – £ 46.5m (Lyon, July 2017)

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – £ 55.5m (Borussia Dortmund, January 2018)

Nicolas Pepe – £ 72m (Lille, August 2019)

Not a single unqualified success among them, which is impressive in some ways. Edu is busy.

ASTON VILLA
Stewart Downing – £ 12 million (Middlesbrough, July 2009)

Darren Bent – £ 18 million (Sunderland, January 2011)

Wesley Moraes – £ 22m (Club Bruges, June 2019)

Ollie Watkins – £ 28 million (Brentford, September 2020)

Emi Buendia – £ 30m plus add-ons (Norwich, June 2021)

Buendia brought James Milner to Villa. deleted from the list broke her transfer record for the third summer in a row.

It’s official: @ EM10Buendia is an Aston Villa player! ? # Welcome Emi

– Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) June 10, 2021

BRENTFORD
Ezri Konsa – £ 2.85 million (Charlton, June 2018)

Mathias Jensen – £ 3.5 million (Celta Vigo, July 2019)

Pontus Jansson – £ 5.5m (Leeds United, July 2019)

Bryan Mbeumo – £ 5.85m (Troyes, August 2019)

Ivan Toney – £ 5m increases to £ 10m with add-ons (Peterborough, September 2020)

Hands up: We’re assuming some of Toney’s add-ons are due after his record-breaking 32-goal season that brought Brentford to the Premier League.

BRIGHTON
Davy Propper – £ 10m (PSV, August 2017)

Jose Izquierdo – £ 13.5m (Club Bruges, August 2017)

Jürgen Locadia – £ 14m (PSV, January 2018)

Alireza Jahanbakhsh – £ 17m (AZ Alkmaar, July 2018)

Adam Webster – £ 20 million (Bristol City, August 2019)

Somewhat Flemish. Does Adam Webster have some Eredivisie or Jupiler Pro League experience that all of them have overlooked in common?

The most valuable asset of any Premier League club

BURNLEY
Steven Defour – £ 7.3m (Anderlecht, August 2016)

Jeff Hendrick – £ 10.5 million (Derby, August 2016)

Robbie Brady – £ 13 million (Norwich, January 2017)

Chris Wood – £ 15m (Leeds, August 2017)

Ben Gibson – £ 15m (Middlesbrough, August 2018)

A center-back and a center-forward who share the title of Burnley’s most expensive player of all time just feel right.

CHELSEA
Andriy Shevchenko – £ 30.8m (AC Milan, May 2006)

Fernando Torres – £ 50m (Liverpool, January 2011)

Alvaro Morata – £ 58m (Real Madrid, July 2017)

Kepa Arrizabalaga – £ 71m (Athletic Bilbao, August 2018)

Kai Havertz – £ 75.8m (Leverkusen, September 2020)

Some reports suggest the Havertz fee wasn’t a club record at the time, but Chelsea won’t mind ousting Kepa. And only his Champions League final winner paid back the investment.

CHELSEA TOUR! ?

An excellent pass from Mason Mount and Kai Havertz is cool enough to go around the goalkeeper and bring the ball home! #UCLfinal pic.twitter.com/P2auOn6yk7

– Football at BT Sport (@btsportfootball) May 29, 2021

CRYSTAL PALACE
Dwight Gayle – £ 4.5 million (Peterborough, July 2013)

James McArthur – £ 7 million (Wigan, September 2014)

Yohan Cabaye – £ 10m (PSG, July 2015)

Andros Townsend – £ 13m (Newcastle, July 2016)

Christian Benteke – £ 27m (Liverpool, August 2016)

Roy Hodgson has spent £ 42.2 million from his appointment as Crystal Palace manager in September 2017 to his departure in May. Alan Pardew’s total transfer spending in the summer of 2016 was £ 51.5 million. Splendid.

EVERTON
Yakubu Aiyegbini – £ 11.3 million (Middlesbrough, August 2007)

Marouane Fellaini – £ 15 million (Standard Liège, September 2008)

Romelu Lukaku – £ 28m (Chelsea, July 2014)

Jordan Pickford – £ 30 million (Sunderland, June 2017)

Gylfi Sigurdsson – £ 45m (Swansea, August 2017)

Everton has more than doubled its money for Fellaini and Lukaku. Your chances of repeating the trick with either of the two who followed it are slim …

The 956 Premier League players retained and 143 dismissed

LEEDS
Tomas Brolin – £ 4.5 million (Parma, November 1995)

Michael Bridges – £ 5.6 million (Sunderland, July 1999)

Olivier Dacourt – £ 7.2 million (Lens, July 2000)

Rio Ferdinand – £ 18 million (West Ham, November 2000)

Rodrigo – £ 27m (Valencia, August 2020)

It took 20 months for Leeds to break its transfer record three times from July 1999. It was 20 years before Leeds broke its transfer record once from November 2000.

LEICESTER
Nampalys Mendy – £ 13 million (Nice, July 2016)

Ahmed Musa – £ 16 million (CSKA Moscow, July 2016)

Islam Slimani – £ 29.7m (Sports, September 2016)

Ayoze Perez – £ 30m (Newcastle, July 2019)

Youri Tielemans – £ 40 million (Monaco, July 2019)

They indulged in the summer after winning the Premier League title and during their first summer under Brendan Rodgers’ direction. This is how trophies smell and Minced meat will do it to you.

LIVERPOOL
Fernando Torres – £ 20.2m (Atletico Madrid, July 2007)

Luis Suarez – £ 22.7m (Ajax, January 2011)

Andy Carroll – £ 35m (Newcastle, January 2011)

Mo Salah – £ 36.9m (Roma, June 2017)

Virgil van Dijk – £ 75m (Southampton, January 2018)

That really is a pretty high hit rate. Virgil van Dijk has two more Liverpool Goals as Andy Carroll, by the way.

Love it or List It: One per club with a one year contract term

MANCHESTER CITY
Kevin de Bruyne – £ 54 million (Wolfsburg, August 2015)

Aymeric Laporte – £ 57.2m (Athletic Bilbao, January 2018)

Riyad Mahrez – £ 60 million (Leicester, July 2018)

Rodri – £ 62.8 million (Atletico Madrid, July 2019)

Ruben Dias – £ 64.3m (Benfica, September 2020)

The city has never spent mega sums on individuals – until now? You have to at least double your current record to win Harry Kane.

MANCHESTER UNITED
Rio Ferdinand – £ 29.3m (Leeds, July 2002)

Dimitar Berbatov – £ 30.8 million (Tottenham, September 2008)

Juan Mata – £ 37.1m (Chelsea, January 2014)

Angel di Maria – £ 59.7 million (Real Madrid, August 2014)

Paul Pogba – £ 89.3m (Juventus, August 2016)

Crystal Palace are the only other Premier League club that didn’t break their transfer record at least once as of August 2017. They refused to break their record for Jadon Sancho last summer. One year later, They don’t seem to come close.

NEUSCHLOSS
Faustino Asprilla – £ 6.7m (Parma, February 1996) 9 48

Alan Shearer – £ 15 million (Blackburn, July 1996)

Michael Owen – £ 16m (Real Madrid, Aug 2005) 26 in 71

Miguel Almiron – £ 20m (Atlanta United, Jan 2019) 8 in 80

Joelinton – £ 40m (Hoffenheim, July 2019) 6 in 68

The first, third, fourth and fifth participants have scored 49 goals in 267 Premier League games for Newcastle. It only took Shearer 86 top games for the Magpies to hit that mark.

NORWICH
Jon Newsome – £ 1m (Leeds United, July 1994)

Dean Ashton – £ 3 million (Crewe, January 2005)

Robert Earnshaw – £ 3.5 million (West Brom, January 2006)

Ricky Van Wolfswinkel – £ 8.5m (Sporting Lisbon, July 2013)

Steven Naismith – £ 8.5m (Everton, January 2016)

Just look at these names. Incidentally, a goal in 25 Premier League games for the RVW. Oh and one of 13 for Naismith. No wonder they hesitate to break it again despite making millions selling their best players.

Every Premier League transfer completed this summer

SOUTH HAMPTON
Dani Osvaldo – £ 14.6m (Roma, August 2013)

Sofiane Boufal – £ 16m (Lille, August 2016)

Mario Lemina – £ 18.1m (Juventus, August 2017)

Guido Carillo – £ 19 million (Monaco, January 2018)

Danny Ings – £ 20m (Liverpool, July 2019)

The club, known for providing Liverpool with a conveyor belt of talent, eventually ended their disappointing transfer record streak by signing one of their players. That’s about 200 IQ shit.

TOTTENHAM
Roberto Soldado – £ 26m (Valencia, August 2013)

Erik Lamela – £ 29m (Rome, August 2013)

Moussa Sissoko – £ 30m (Newcastle, September 2016)

Davinson Sanchez – £ 42 million (Ajax, August 2017)

Tanguy Ndombele – £ 53.7m (Lyon, July 2019)

Jose Mourinho didn’t particularly like Ndombele, and neither did Ryan Mason, apparently. We will see what Paulo Fonseca thinks…

NEWS: Fonseca wants three Roma stars at Spurs in the “reverse” Mourinho

WATFORD
Abdoulaye Doucouré – £ 8m (Rennes, February 2016)

Isaac Success – £ 12.5 million (Granada, July 2016)

Roberto Pereyra – £ 13m (Juventus, August 2016)

Andre Gray – £ 18.5m (Burnley, August 2017)

Ismaila Sarr – £ 40m (Rennes, August 2019)

The hornets resisted the temptation to get their money back to Sarr. It was a smart move as it cleaned up at Watford’s Player of the Season Awards.

WEST HAM
Andy Carroll – £ 15m (Liverpool, June 2013)

Andre Ayew – £ 20.7m (Swansea, August 2016)

Marko Arnautovic – £ 25m (Stoke, August 2017)

Felipe Anderson – £ 36m (Lazio, July 2018)

Sebastien Haller – £ 45m (Eintracht Frankfurt, July 2019)

West Ham should stop breaking their transfer record and continue signing players from the Czech League or Watford’s reserves.

WOLVES
Ruben Neves – £ 15.8 million (Postage, July 2017)

Rui Patricio – £ 16m (Sports, June 2018)

Adama Traore – £ 18m (Middlesbrough, August 2018)

Raul Jimenez – £ 30m (Benfica, June 2019)

Fabio Silva – £ 35.6m (Postage, September 2020)

That stinks of Jorge Mendes, apart from the brief stay in an area that is absolutely not North Yorkshire.

The EM 2020 is finally here – and what better way to celebrate that than with a preview show at the start of our new multisport website Planet Sport?

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