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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Jacob Leeks

Six Premier League teams who spent big but still got relegated after latest £58m disaster

A recent trend of the Premier League has been at least one team spending a huge amount of money before then getting relegated.

Both newly promoted and long established sides have been caught out after a summer of big spending, with relegation to the Championship all they received. Crazy spending has mainly been driven by panicking owners and managers, while some long-term projects have fallen apart due to too much upheaval.

It has been seen throughout the last decade of the Premier League, with teams going down in history for all the wrong reasons. Here, Mirror Football looks at six sides who's summer of spending led to dreadful consequences for their top-flight status.

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