There are now 20 transfers of £27m and above, and Manchester United have the most expensive of the lot in £52m teenager Leny Yoro.
Players are ranked by size of the initial fee, with add-ons stated.
1) Leny Yoro (Lille to Manchester United) – £52m plus add-ons
Man Utd fans want you to believe that they ‘beat Real Madrid’ to the signing of Leny Yoro, as if he didn’t have a choice in the matter. Nevertheless, this is a brilliant signing for the Red Devils, who have landed one of the best teenagers in world football. Another centre-back remains on the agenda with Sir Jim Ratcliffe meaning business.
2) Amadou Onana (Everton to Aston Villa) – £50m
Aston Villa mean business ahead of their Champions League return. The signing of Onana means they are the biggest spenders of the 2024 summer transfer window.
3) Moussa Diaby (Aston Villa to Al-Ittihad) – £50m
It felt like a coup when Villa signed the Frenchman but he then started only 25 Premier League games, often being sidelined by the resurgent Leon Bailey. A year later he has left for Saudi Arabia, where he probably should have gone in the first place.
4) Michael Olise (Crystal Palace to Bayern Munich) – £45m plus add-ons
You will keep reading this is a £50m-plus transfer but it’s only a £50m-plus transfer if it is a success; the initial fee is £45m. But the truth is that we fully expect it to be a success because Olise is brilliant for Crystal Palace. It is a great transfer for all concerned.
5) Joao Palhinha (Fulham to Bayern Munich) – £43m plus add-ons
This is what happens when Bayern Munich fail to win the Bundesliga; they a) spend a load of money and b) spend a load of money on Premier League players because they have just appointed Vincent Kompany. Fulham have more than doubled their money in two years on Palhinha but it still feels pretty cheap for one of the best defensive midfielders in the English top flight.
6) Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa to Juventus) – £42.35m
Much to their chagrin, Champions League qualifiers Aston Villa were forced into a major sale to comply with PSR rules and avoid any potential future points deductions, with midfield lynchpin Luiz their chosen sacrifice. In a theme of this summer’s window, the Premier League club are getting a couple of players in return from the Turin side in separate deals.
7) Endrick (Palmeiras to Real Madrid) – £40m plus add-ons
This fee could change as more details emerge because reports have put the initial fee Real Madrid agreed to pay the Brazilian club over 18 months ago anywhere between £30m and £50m. We are going with the transfermarkt version for now and the truth may never actually emerge. What we do know is that Endrick signs for Real Madrid as soon as he turns 18 and that Brazil bloody loves him.
8) Max Kilman (Wolves to West Ham) – £40m
West Ham are suddenly the third-biggest spenders in Europe this summer after signing Kilman. They will inevitably fall a few places as the window progresses, but Kilman is certainly a coup after he was linked with several elite clubs.
9) Ian Maatsen (Chelsea to Aston Villa) – £37.5m
Had a big hand in Borussia Dortmund’s charge to the Champions League final last term having moved to the Bundesliga side on loan in January, though he didn’t cover himself in glory in the final. That’s another significant chunk of pure profit for Chelsea, who have made around £170m through the sale of academy graduates in the last two seasons.
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10) Joshua Zirkzee (Bologna to Manchester United) – £36.5m
The first signing of a brave new era for the club is obviously a Dutchman, although Zirkzee does not come with the requisite Eredivisie experience of your usual Erik ten Hag player. Manchester United actually paid more than the forward’s £33.6m release clause, but for PSR-friendly pay structure reasons rather typical incompetence.
11) Elliot Anderson (Newcastle to Nottingham Forest) – £35m
A huge amount of money for a 21-year-old with 44 Premier League appearances – only 13 of those from the start – who’s yet to earn a cap for Scotland, but Anderson is firmly in the There’s Something About Him category, would have played more last season were it not for a significant spell out with a back injury, and we’ve probably now just got to accept that the going rate for budding academy talent these days is about twice what it should be.
12) Riccardo Calafiori (Bologna to Arsenal) – £33.6m rising to £42m
Mikel Arteta claims he’s been an admirer for a while but nothing will convince us that he wasn’t persuaded by that assist for Italy against Croatia at Euro 2024, which was worth the £42m alone. He joins a frightening array of defenders on the books at the Emirates.
13) Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino to Napoli) – £30.1m
After a difficult season at the end of which Napoli actually finished behind Torino in Serie A’s mid-table on head-to-head record, the 2023 champions simply signed their Italian international centre-half and gift-wrapped him for new manager Antonio Conte. Buongiorno indeed.
14) Archie Gray (Leeds United to Tottenham) – £30m
Leeds United described themselves as ‘heartbroken’ to see teenager Gray depart but he has secured an excellent move just days after he seemed to be on the move to Brentford. As is customary this summer, Tottenham also sold Joe Rodon to Leeds United in a ‘separate’ deal.
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15) Yankuba Minteh (Newcastle to Brighton) – £30m
Lyon made a move for Minteh, at which point the 19-year-old insisted he had his heart set on Everton, which we thought was a bit odd, until Brighton came calling and we realised he was actually just keen to remain in the Premier League. The fact that it is Brighton who have got the deal over the line will be of great concern to Newcastle fans given the Seagulls’ transfer market excellence, adding to the frustration that they’re allowing a teenager who got ten goals and six assists on loan at Feyenoord last season to leave at all.
16) Igor Thiago (Club Brugge to Brentford) – £30m
A transfer record broken for Brentford when the season was net yet over, the Bees proactively planning for the presumed departure of a forward who remains on their books. The 22-year-old cost £30m and scored 29 goals in 55 games for Club Brugge last season, providing a further six assists for the Belgian champions and Conference League semi-finalists. If he can replicate anything close to that form in England, the Brazilian will take Ivan Toney’s place whether he is sold or not.
17) Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (Leicester City to Chelsea) – £30m
Enzo Maresca has gone back to Leicester to sign Dewsbury-Hall as City had little choice but to log a profit ahead of the PSR deadline at the end of June. “It is amazing to be sitting here as a Chelsea player,” said Dewsbury-Hall.
18) Robin Le Normand (Real Sociedad to Atletico Madrid) – £29.1m
Fresh from playing in every game of Spain’s successful Euro 2024 run bar the semi-final, centre-half Le Normand has bid farewell to La Real after eight years and signed up for some dark arts lessons under Diego Simeone.
19) Lewis Hall (Chelsea to Newcastle United) – £28m rising to £35m
Would Newcastle have completed this transfer if it was not a mandatory part of the loan? We will never know. What we do know is that Hall started only eight Premier League games in his first season on Tyneside. What will encourage him and Newcastle is that seven of those starts came in the run-in.
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20) David Raya (Brentford to Arsenal) – £27m
An initial £3m loan that ended in the Golden Glove has seen a permanent £27m switch triggered for the Spaniard. “After a year on loan as a Gunner, I can finally say that I’m an Arsenal player for the coming years. I’m excited to see what the future holds but always living in and enjoying the present,” said Raya, who has absolutely seen off Aaron Ramsdale.