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Todd Boehly gets £273m warning as Chelsea head 'unsustainable' Premier League record

Todd Boehly has come in for some indirect criticism following his world record transfer spend at Chelsea.

The new owner was the leading figure behind a £273million spending spree this summer at Stamford Bridge, a total which was more than half of the entire Spanish league's transfer spend. Meanwhile the net spend of La Liga clubs, just £45million, was dwarfed by a staggering total over £1.1billion by Premier League sides.

It comes as the Premier League's ever-increasing transfer costs continue to spiral as premium prices are put on players with English clubs involved, and the spending is having a knock-on effect.

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