Premier League clubs spent more than £300 million on agents fees last season in their various bids for success and glory. Between them the 20 top clubs paid £318.2 million to agents and intermediaries during the season – up 16.7 per cent on the previous year.
New data released by the FA suggests Manchester City – who won the league, FA Cup and Champions League to gain a historic treble – spent £51.6 million, the most of any English club.
Meanwhile, 2015/16 league winners and 2021 FA Cup winners Leicester City spent more than £10 million on agents – despite a smattering of new players failing to help the squad avoid a miserable season and relegation to the Championship. Last week Youri Tielemans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Daniel Amartey, Nampalys Mendy, Ryan Bertrand, Ayoze Pérez and Tetê all announced they would be leaving the club.
During the same 2022/23 season, Premier League clubs spent a record-breaking £2.8 billion on transfers – around double the £1.44 billion spent the year before.
Chelsea spent £43.2 million on agents fees, despite spending significantly more than City on transfer fees.
Following City and Chelsea were the other ‘big six’ clubs of Liverpool (£33.7 million), Manchester United (£24.7 million), Arsenal (£16.7 million), and Tottenham (£16.1 million).
Brentford, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest were at the bottom of the table with the least money spent on agents. Brentford – who secured an impressive, ninth-placed finish – spent just £5.6 million on agents.
Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest, who were both promoted from the Championship last summer, spent £5.1 million and £4.4 million respectively, on agents.
Vyom Chaudhary, football expert at Safebettingsites.com, said: “It’s interesting to note that City tops the list of agents fees despite doing very limited transfer business during 2022-23.
“It’s very likely, as multiple reports have suggested, that City had to spend a huge sum of money on agents to acquire Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund.”
