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Courtesy of the Guardian, here’s the Premier League table by net spend – the amount of money clubs spent on players during the summer transfer window, minus the amount of money they received from player sales.
After United’s sensational player splurge during July and August, that saw them break the British transfer record for Angel di Maria, and bring in one of the world’s best strikers Radamel Falcao on loan, the Red Devils sit way, way out in front of this table.
With figures spent like these, they have little choice but to at least qualify for next season’s Champions League…
Arsenal also spent heavily, bringing in Alexis Sanchez for £35m and Danny Welbeck for £16m, and are second in this list.
Two clubs made profits during the window – Southampton and Tottenham. The Saints sold £50m of players to Liverpool alone, selling the Reds Rickie Lambert, Dejan Lovren and Adam Lallana.
Chelsea also spent heavily, but thanks mainly to the outrageous £50m sale of David Luiz, their net spend was sensible.
1) Manchester United, net spend £122m
Luke Shaw (Southampton, £27m), Ander Herrera (Athletic Bilbao, £29m), Vanja Milinkovic (FK Vojvodina), Ángel Di María (Real Madrid, £60m), Marcos Rojo (Sporting Lisbom, £16m), Daley Blind (Ajax, £14m), Radamel Falcao (Monaco, loan)
2) Arsenal, net spend £46m
Alexis Sánchez (Barcelona, £30m), Calum Chambers (Southampton, £16m), Mathieu Debuchy (Newcastle, £12m), David Ospina (Nice, £3m), Danny Welbeck (Manchester United, £16m)
3) Liverpool, net spend £36m
In: Adam Lallana (Southampton, £25m), Lazar Markovic (Benfica, £20m), Emre Can (Bayer Leverkusen, £9.8m), Rickie Lambert (Southampton, £4m), Mario Balotelli (Milan, £16m), Divock Origi (Lille, £10m), Alberto Moreno (Sevilla, £12m), Dejan Lovren (Southampton, £20m), Javier Manquillo (Atlético Madrid, loan)
4) Everton, net spend £33m
Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea, £28m), Samuel Eto’o (Chelsea), Brendan Galloway (MK Dons), Muhamed Besic (Ferencvaros)
5) Manchester City, net spend £32m
Fernando (Porto, £12m), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal), Willy Caballero (Malaga, £6m), Eliaquim Mangala (Porto, £32m), Bruno Zuculini (Racing Club, £3m), Frank Lampard (New York City, loan)
6) West Ham United, net spend £31m
Cheikhou Kouyaté (Anderlecht, £7m), Mauro Zárate (Velez Sarsfield), Aaron Cresswell (Ipswich, £4m), Diego Poyet (Charlton), Enner Valencia (Pachuca, £12m), Joe Cole (Aston Villa), Alex Song (Barcelona, loan), Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal, loan), Diafra Sakho (Metz), Morgan Amalfitano (Marseille)
7) Hull City, net spend £25m
Robert Snodgrass (Norwich, £7m), Jake Livermore (Tottenham, £6m), Tom Ince (Blackpool), Andrew Robinson (Dundee United, £3m), Harry Maguire (Sheffield United, £2.5m), Michael Dawson (Tottenham), Jake Livermore (Tottenham, £8m), Karim Rossi (Stoke), Andrew Robertson (Dundee United, £2.85m), Abel Hernández (Palermo, £10m), Brian Lenihan (Cork City), Mohamed Diamé (West Ham), Gastón Ramírez (Southampton, loan), Hatem Ben Arfa (Newcastle, loan)
8) Newcastle United, net spend £25m
Emmanuel Rivière (Monaco), Remy Cabella (Montpellier, £12m), Siem de Jong (Ajax, £6m), Ayoze Pérez (Tenerife, £1.5m), Jack Colback (Sunderland), Daryl Janmaat (Feyenoord, £5m), Karl Darlow (Nottingham Forest), Facundo Ferreyra (Shakhtar Donetsk, loan)
9) Queens Park Rangers, net spend £21m
Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Steven Caulker (Cardiff City, £8m), Jordan Mutch (Cardiff City, £6m), Mauricio Isla (Juventus), Leroy Fer (Norwich City, £8m), Jack Robinson (Liverpool), Alex McCarthy (Reading), Mauricio Isla (Juventus, loan), Eduardo Vargas (Napoli, loan), Danny Simpson (Leicester), Sandro (Tottenham), Niko Kranjcar (Dynamo Kiev, loan)
10) West Bromwich Albion, net spend £13m
Craig Gardner (Sunderland), Joleon Lescott (Manchester City), Chris Baird (Burnley), Sebastien Pocognoli (Hannover 96), Georgios Samaras (Celtic), Brown Ideye (Dynamo Kiev, £10m), Christian Gamboa (Rosenborg, £4m), Andre Wisdom (Liverpool, loan), Sebastián Blanco (Metalist Kharkiv), Jason Davidson (Heracles Almelo), Cristian Gamboa (Rosenborg), Silvestre Varela (Porto, loan)
11) Crystal Palace, net spend £11m
Chris Kettings (Blackpool), Fraizer Campbell (Cardiff City, £0.9m), Brede Hangeland (Fulham), Martin Kelly (Liverpool), Wilfried Zaha (Manchester United, loan), Zeki Fryers (Tottenham, £3m), James McArthur (Wigan, £5.5m), Kevin Doyle (Wolves, loan)
12) Chelsea, net spend £10m
Cesc Fábregas (Barcelona, £30m), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid, £32m), Mario Pasalic (Hadjuk Split), Filipe Luís (£20m), Didier Drogba (Galatasaray), Loïc Rémy (QPR, £10.5m)
13) Leicester City, net spend £10m
Leonardo Ulloa (Brighton, £8m), Esteban Cambiasso (Internazionale), Matthew Upson (Brighton), Marc Albrighton (Aston Villa), Ben Hamer (Charlton), Jack Barmby (Manchester United), Leonardo Ulloa (Brighton), Danny Simpson (QPR)
14) Sunderland, net spend £10m
Billy Jones (West Brom), Jordi Gomez (Wigan), Costel Pantilimon (Manchester City), Patrick van Aarnholt (Chelsea), Jack Rodwell (Manchester City, £10m), Santiago Vergini (Estudiantes, loan), Will Buckley (Brighton), Sebastián Coates (Liverpool, loan), Ricky Álvarez (Internazionale, loan)
15) Burnley, net spend £8m
Lukas Jutkiewicz (Middlesbrough, £1.5m), Michael Kightly (Stoke), Marvin Sordell (Bolton), Matt Gilks (Blackpool), Matt Taylor (West Ham), Steven Reid (West Brom), Stephen Ward (Wolves), George Boyd (Hull),
16) Aston Villa, net spend £6m
Carlos Sanchez (Elche, £4.7m), Philippe Senderos (Valencia), Joe Cole (West Ham), Tom Leggett (Southampton), Isaac Nehemie (Southampton), Kieran Richardson (Fulham), Aly Cissokho (Valencia), Carlos Sánchez (Elche, £4.7m)
17) Swansea City, net spend £1.5m
Gylfi Sigurdsson (Tottenham), Jefferson Montero (Morelia, £4m) Marvin Emnes (Middlesbrough, £1.5m), Bafetimbi Gomis (Lyon), Lukasz Fabianski (Arsenal), Stephen Kingsley (Falkirk), Jefferson Montero (Morelia), Giancarlo Gallifuoco, Federico Fernández (Napoli), Modou Barrow (Ostersunds)
18) Stoke City, net spend £0.5m
Mame Biram Diouf (Hannover), Dionatan Teixeira (Banska Bystrica), Phil Bardsley (Sunderland), Steve Sidwell (Fulham), Bojan Krkic (Barcelona, £3m), Victor Moses (Chelsea, loan), Oussama Assaidi (Liverpool, loan)
19) Tottenham Hotspur, profit £6m
Eric Dier (Sporting Lisbon, £4m), Federico Fazio (Sevilla, £8m), Ben Davies (Swansea, £10m), Michael Vorm (Swansea, £5m), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders), Federico Fazio (Sevilla), Benjamin Stambouli (Montpellier)
20) Southampton, profit £31m
Dusan Tadic (Twente, £10.3m), Graziano Pelle (Feyenoord, £9m), Fraser Forster (Celtic, £10m), Graziano Pellè (Feyenoord, £8m), Shane Long (Hull City, £12m), Florin Gardos (Steaua Bucharest, £4m), Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea, loan), Saphir Taider (Internazionale, loan), Toby Alderweireld (Atlético Madrid, loan), Sadio Mané (Red Bull Salzburg)
