Top 10 biggest transfer window spends ever as Tottenham threaten | OneFootball

The top 10 transfer window spends ever is led by Liverpool but Chelsea have a ridiculous total of five entries in that top 10.

Tottenham are now threatening to take their summer spend beyond £400m and potentially past Liverpool.

10) Chelsea (summer 2022/23) – £254m This is when we arrived in the true Chelsea banter era, with the new owners spending barely believable sums on Wesley Fofana, Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella and Kalidou Koulibaly. Four years later, only one of those signings remains at the club.

9) Arsenal (summer 2025/26) – £254.9m The long-awaited and interminably drawn-out arrival of Viktor Gyokeres nudged Arsenal up towards a £200m summer, Then came Eberechi Eze for another £60m. Then came the Premier League title that they could have probably won with neither.

8) Chelsea (winter 2022/23) – £278m Obviously things were going so swimmingly (they weren’t) that the sensible thing was to go again in January, with over £100m being spaffed on Enzo Fernandez, who was joined by Mykhailo Mudryk, Noni Madueke, Malo Gusto and many more. At this point, absolutely nothing made any sense anymore, but if it moved, Chelsea bought it.

7) Real Madrid (summer 2019/20) – £279m Eden Hazard was the headline name but there was also so very much money spent on Eder Militao, Luke Jovic, Ferland Mendy and Rodrygo, with varying degrees of success. When they won the Champions League in 2022, only two of those names played a significant part.

6) Chelsea (summer 2025/26) – £282.2m There were pre-arranged moves for Estevao, Dario Essugo, Mamadou Sarr and Kendry Paez. Throw in the £30m signing of Liam Delap and the Blues were already making very expensive waves before they signed Joao Pedro for an initial £55m and Jamie Gittens and Jorrel Hato for not much less. And then Alejandro Garnacho arrived.

5) PSG (summer 2023/24) – £295m There was definitely money overspent – on Randal Kolo Muani and Manuel Ugarte in particular – but three years after that outlay, they will not regret the sums paid out for Ousmane Dembele, Bradley Barcola and Lucas Hernandez.

4) Al-Hilal (summer 2023/24) – £298m The Saudi summer brought – deep breath – Neymar, Aleksandar Mitrović, Ruben Neves, Sergej Milinković-Savić, Malcom, Kalidou Koulibaly and more to Al-Hilal, who promptly won the Saudi Pro League. Because of course they sodding did.

3) Chelsea (summer 2026/27) – £352.8m A lesson in how to spend over £350m without anybody being able to name anybody you have bought who’s not come from a Premier League club like Morgan Rogers, Maxence Lacroix, Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson. There

2) Chelsea (summer 2023/24) – £391m Chelsea did not just set a new record for a transfer window spend; they obliterated it. There were 11 signings to arrive for over £10m and six for over £30m in Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Cole Palmer, Axel Disasi, Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku. Was it worth it for the Conference League trophy?

1) Liverpool (summer 2025/26) – £439.8m We don’t deal in add-ons – especially when so few of those add-ons will have been met in 25/26 when Liverpool – with their three biggest signings of the whole transfer window – were pretty rotten despite that massive outlay. Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike were all pretty expensive even before Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong and Giovanni Leoni were added to the pile along with the delayed arrival of Giorgi Mamardashvili.