The summer 2026 transfer window, mapped: where the money went

The summer 2026 transfer window closed at 11pm on Tuesday 1 September 2026, and Premier League clubs had spent about £3.46bn, according to Reuters. That beat the record set in summer 2025, when Deloitte put their spending at £3.0bn. The windows in Spain, Italy, Germany and France shut on the same day.

Much of the money stayed inside England. Reuters found that around 38% of Premier League deals were between Premier League clubs, up from 30% the summer before. This window is best read as English cities trading with one another, with Paris and Barcelona at the edges of the map.

The biggest deals

The fees below are reported figures, including add-ons where they were reported.

Fernández, signed in the final hours of the window, equalled the British record fee: the £125m Liverpool paid Newcastle for Alexander Isak in 2025. Rogers became the most expensive British player, passing Anderson, whose move had set that mark only weeks earlier.

Manchester and London: the buyers

The Etihad Stadium in east Manchester was the window's biggest destination. Manchester City spent £458m in Enzo Maresca's first summer as manager: Fernández, Anderson, Bouaddi and, on deadline day, Iliman Ndiaye from Everton for up to £65m. City sold heavily too, with Rodri, Savinho and Tijjani Reijnders among those who left.

London's money ran in both directions. At Stamford Bridge, in the west of the city, Chelsea spent £349m, with Rogers the largest outlay. Yet the analysts Football Benchmark put Chelsea's sales at €448m, more than any other club in Europe's big five leagues. Fernández to City and Marc Cucurella to Real Madrid, for a reported €55m, were among the departures.

In north London, Tottenham spent £303m. Tonali arrived from Newcastle for an initial £92.5m, Mateus Fernandes from West Ham for £85m and Savinho from City for an initial £75m plus £10m in add-ons.

Newcastle, Birmingham and Liverpool

Newcastle's summer was shaped by their sales. St James' Park lost Tonali, Bruno Guimarães, who joined Arsenal for a reported £75m, and Anthony Gordon. According to Sky Sports, those three sales raised £245m and the club spent £262m. That spending included a reported £51m on Lille forward Matías Fernández-Pardo on deadline day.

At Villa Park in Birmingham, Aston Villa sold Rogers to Chelsea and, by Football Benchmark's count, finished second only to Chelsea for transfer income. Their signings included Ibrahim Mbaye, bought from PSG for a reported £47m.

Liverpool bought rather than sold. Anfield's two largest signings both came from France: Barcola from PSG, for an initial £106m plus up to £17m in add-ons, and Jérémy Jacquet from Rennes for up to £60m. Little money came back. Mohamed Salah left for Trabzonspor and Ibrahima Konaté for Real Madrid, both on free transfers.

Money in and out of England

When English clubs shopped abroad, the largest payments went to France. Barcola, Bouaddi, Jacquet, Fernández-Pardo and Mbaye were all bought from Ligue 1 clubs, two of them from Paris Saint-Germain. Football Benchmark calculated that Ligue 1 finished the window with a €730m net surplus, the largest in the big five, and that PSG's €334m in sales was the highest of any big-five club outside England. Barcola's fee was the largest ever paid for a player leaving the French league, according to AP.

The biggest fees paid to English clubs came from Spain and Saudi Arabia. Barcelona signed Gordon from Newcastle in May for a reported €80m (£69m), then Rodri, the 2024 Ballon d'Or winner, from City in August in a deal reported at €76.5m (about £65m) including add-ons. In Madrid, Real paid a reported €55m for Cucurella and took Konaté and Bernardo Silva on free transfers. Spain's single biggest purchase bypassed England: Real's reported €125m for Diomande went to Leipzig. Barcelona also took Karim Adeyemi from Borussia Dortmund for a reported €22m plus add-ons.

In Saudi Arabia, Al Hilal signed Ollie Watkins from Aston Villa for a reported £50m, and Reijnders joined Al Qadsiah for a reported €61m. The Saudi window stays open until 12 October, so Gabriel Martinelli's reported £60m move from Arsenal to Al Hilal was announced on 3 September, two days after the English window shut.