Premier League clubs spent a record £1.4bn on transfers this summer, with the net expenditure of £665m further cementing the English top flight's place at the top the European football money tree.
After a busy transfer deadline day, which saw an unprecedented £210m spent and a string of big money deals fall through, the total spend across the league's 20 clubs has risen by more than 25 per cent when compared to last summer.
That rise is 65 per cent when compared to the 2015 summer window, which was the last one before the league's blockbuster £5bn TV deal, which kicked in from the following year.