The summer transfer window -and what clubs have or haven’t spent – is always a time of the year when debates rage to and fro on the forums.
Most of the discussions remain the same from year to year with accusation and counter accusations being directed at the inactivity or otherwise of West Ham and other clubs
This year – despite Covid 19 – there are those who believe that we are lagging behind the rest of the league since the window opened and argue that plenty of deals are being done whilst the Irons drag their feet.
So – thanks to Teamtalk at https://talksport.com/football/731702/premier-league-done-deals-2020-summer-transfer-window-manchester-united-arsenal-chelsea-liverpool-willian-werner-ramsdale-hojbjerg/ – we checked out exactly how the market has been going since the last day of the season when the window opened.
And the reality is that the top four or five clubs – with Manchester United a notable absentee – have dominated the business which has been done with six biggish signings involving Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool.
The four have spent £141 million of the £183 million (appx) spent so far with Sheffield United splashing out £18 million on Aaron Ramsdale. This means that between them, the remaining 15 clubs clubs have spent 24 million between them.
There are loads of undisclosed fees mentioned which are normally small anyway and in total 36 signings have been made – most of them basically insignificant signings along with three frees.
NB: News has just emerged that Ben Chilwell has joined Chelsea although no fee has yet been mentioned.
Here’s the full list of signings so far:
Arsenal
William Saliba (Saint-Etienne) £27million
Willian (Chelsea) Free
Aston Villa
Ben Chrisene (Exeter) Undisclosed
Brighton & Hove Albion
Joel Veltman (Ajax) £900,000
Zak Emmerson (Oldham) Undisclosed
Jensen Weir (Wigan) Undisclosed
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) Free transfer
Burnley
Zero
Chelsea
Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) Undisclosed
Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) £36million
Ben Chillwell
Xavier Mbuyamba (Barcelona) Undisclosed
Crystal Palace
Nathan Ferguson (West Brom) Free
Everton
Niels Nkounkou (Marseille) Free
Leeds United
Illan Meslier (Lorient) Undisclosed
Cody Drameh (Fulham) Undisclosed
Charlie Allen (Linfield) Undisclosed
Joe Gelhardt (Wigan) Undisclosed
Jack Harrison (Manchester City) Loan
Leicester
Zero
Liverpool
Kostas Tsimikas (Olympiakos) £11.7m
Manchester City
Nathan Ake (Bournemouth) £41million
Ferran Torres (Valencia) £21million
Pablo Moreno (Juventus) Undisclosed
Yan Couto (Coritiba) £5.5million
Manchester United
Odion Ighalo (Shanghai Shenhua) Loan
Newcastle United
Mark Gillespie (Motherwell) Free
Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) Free
Sheffield United
Wes Foderingham (Rangers) Free
Aaron Ramsdale (Bournemouth) £18.5million
Southampton
Mohammed Salisu (Real Valladolid) £10.9m
Kyle Walker-Peters (Tottenham) Undisclosed
Tottenham Hotspur
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Southampton) Undisclosed
Joe Hart (Burnley) Free
West Brom
Matheus Pereira (Sporting Lisbon) Undisclosed
West Ham United
Tomas Soucek £16.5 million
Wolves
Luke Matheson (Rochdale) £1million