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The summer transfer market in the 2025-2026 season, which had a lot of talk and a lot of trouble, has closed.
The English Premier League (EPL) is crazy. waged the greatest war of all time. On the 2nd (Korea time), the British 'BBC' Premier League clubs spent more money than ever in the transfer market this summer. Expenditure exceeded 3 billion pounds (about 5.66 trillion won)," the report said.
EPL spent a total of 2.73 billion pounds (5.1537 trillion won) until the 31st of last month. On the last day of the summer transfer market, the 'money bomb' exploded. The EPL's highest ever ransom has been rewritten.
Liverpool finally have Alexander Isaac in his arms, who was in sharp conflict with Newcastle United. The transfer fee was 125 million pounds (about 236 billion won). Liverpool broke the EPL's highest price by recruiting Florian Birz for £116 million (about 219 billion won) in June. He held Isaac in his arms and broke the maximum transfer fee again.
The total amount of EPL expenditure was 3.087 billion pounds (about 5.8285 trillion won). It is incomparable to last summer's 1.96 billion pounds (about 3.7 trillion won), which was the highest record. The 'BBC' emphasized that the total amount of EPL transfers is more than the combined amount spent by the German Bundesliga, Spain La Liga, French Ligue 1 and Italian Serie A clubs.
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The team that led the transfer market this year is Liverpool, which won the EPL last season. Manager Arne Slot took the helm of Liverpool last summer. The first year was quiet, but this year it was the opposite.
Liverpool last recruited Isaac, increasing its spending to 415 million pounds (about 7804 billion won). It is a new record for the amount of money a single club has spent in a single transfer market. The previous record was 400 million pounds (about 755.4 billion won) set by Chelsea in the summer of 2023. Not only is this more than other European clubs, but it is almost the same as the total expenditure of other European leagues.
Chelsea and Arsenal, both based in London, also reorganized their squad by investing £285 million (about 538.1 billion won) and £255 million (about 481.5 billion won), respectively, to compete for the championship.
In the case of Chelsea, the sale was also active. It earned 288 million pounds (about 543.6 billion won) in transfer fees, making a profit of 3 million pounds (about 5.7 billion won). Arsenal were the opposite. Sales were only 9 million pounds (about 17 billion won), with a deficit of 246 million pounds (about 464.3 billion won).
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Tottenham, where Son Heung-min left, earned 36 million pounds (about 68 billion won) instead of spending 181 million pounds (about 341.6 billion won). It ranks seventh among the 20 EPL teams in terms of spending. After Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal, Newcastle (250 million pounds, about 472 billion won), Manchester United (216 million pounds, about 407.7 billion won), and Nottingham Forest (250 million pounds, about 387 billion won) ranked fourth to sixth.
Sunderland, who was promoted to the EPL this season, ranked 8th (£162 million, about 305.7 billion won) to stay, while Manchester City, which is a "big hand", ranked 9th (£152 million, KRW 286.8 billion).
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
