Chelsea
have spent the most on agents' fees this season as Premier League clubs
shelled out more than £272m for their services for 2020-21.
The figure is almost £10m more than last season despite the financial impact
of coronavirus, with the west London club paying out £35.2m of that total -
around £9m more than last year.
The Blues paid agents for 69 transactions - including seven incomings and 23
outgoings - over £5m more than Manchester City, who were the next highest
spenders at £30.2m.
In shelling out £75.8m on Kai Havertz, £50m on Ben Chilwell and £45m on Timo
Werner among others, Chelsea were the runaway spenders on transfers fees at
£226.1m.
Manchester City are second in terms of agents' fees expenditure after
signing Ruben Dias from Benfica for more than £61m among nine incomings
Manchester United were the third-highest spenders after paying agents and
intermediaries £29.8m, followed by champions Liverpool with £21.6m and then
Tottenham (£16.5m) rounding off the top five.
Sixth-biggest spenders were their arch-rivals Arsenal (£16.5m) then Everton
(£14.1m), Wolves (£12.6m), Leicester (£12.5m) and Newcastle (£11.3m)
finishing off the top 10.
Then come West Ham (£9.7m), Fulham (£9.3m), Aston Villa (£8.9m), Brighton
(£7.4m), Sheffield United (£7.1m), Leeds (£7m), Southampton (£6.8m), Crystal
Palace (£6.8m) and Burnley (£4.5m).
Newly-promoted West Brom, who brought in new players in January to try to
keep themselves in the division come the end of the campaign, have spent the
least of all Premier League clubs this season at just £4.2m.
Clubs also pay agents for contract renewals, so they are also included in
the number of transactions and total expenditure across the season, which
reached £272,220,223 in total compared to £263,368,860 in 2019-20.
The FA's latest data release includes the summer 2020 and January 2021
transfer windows and ends in February.
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