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Premier League clubs spend £260m on agents in 2018-19
Premier League clubs have paid out more than £260m to football agents during 2018-19. That’s a massive £49m increase on the previous 12 months.
Figures published by the FA on Thursday showed that Liverpool spent the most in the top flight. A staggering £43.8m between 1st February 2018 and 31st January 2019.
That’s nearly £17m more than the next highest spending club, Chelsea, who spent £26.8m.
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Manchester City (£24.1m) and Manchester United (£20.7m) were the other clubs to dish out more than £20m to agents throughout the year.
Interestingly fees to agents went up despite the amount spent in the transfer market falling by more than £500m compared to the season before.
Championship clubs spent more than £50m which is an increase of around £8m. Stoke, Swansea and West Brom, who were all relegated from the Premier League, were accountable for 35% of that.
In League One Sunderland spent more than half of the £5.5m in outgoings.
Premier League clubs spending on agents
1 | Liverpool | £43.7m |
2 | Chelsea | £26.8m |
3 | Man City | £24.1m |
4 | Man Utd | £20.7m |
5 | Everton | £19.1m |
6 | West Ham | £14.4m |
7 | Leicester City | £12.1m |
8 | Arsenal | £11.1m |
9 | Tottenham | £11.1m |
10 | Watford | £10.8m |
11 | Bournemouth | £10.2m |
12 | Newcastle | £8.8m |
13 | Fulham | £8.2m |
14 | Crystal Palace | £6.9m |
15 | Brighton | £6.8m |
16 | Wolves | £6.8m |
17 | Southampton | £6.1m |
18 | Huddersfield | £5m |
19 | Burnley | £3.9m |
20 | Cardiff City | £2.8m |
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