Transfer deadline day spending LATEST: The window in numbers as Premier League clubs race towards record £1.5bn total spree

A summer of unprecedented spending reaches its climax on Thursday on transfer deadline day. 

Neymar's world-record £198million move from Barcelona to PSG has changed the game, with fees rocketing skywards across the globe, including for the Premier League clubs.

Our expert Nick Harris updates you throughout the day on the latest numbers, facts and statistics surrounding the day's - and the summer's - spending.


 
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01:14
That's all folks...

That's it for now, here's the 1.05am table. Drinkwater, Sakho and perhaps others may or may not about to be confirmed. If they are, then print off the table, get yourself a pencil and do a bit of maths. Until next time ... night.

23:36
The latest transfer figure details...

So here is the tally at 11.30pm. We're not quite finished yet, probably, with a possible player in and out at Leicester and one of those into Chelsea (Drinkwater). Maybe. Deal sheets in. 

Regardless, there are some eye-catching details in the latest spending table. Manchester City are the biggest net spenders but only just now, after shipping more players. Chelsea have spent £155.4m gross but must still consider it a disappointing window having missed so many of Conte's targets.

Swansea have made £30.5m profit in the window but acquired one of the game's hottest young properties and replaced the key midfielder and the striker they sold.

As for Arsenal. Oh dear. It wasn't meant to be like this, was it?

19:41
A quiet afternoon brings just £3m in Premier League moves

Let's not pretend that it's been the craziest afternoon of activity, what with Alexis Sanchez looking set to stay at Arsenal, Lemar not moving (yet) and no blockbuster transfer apparently pending. 

In fact since Nakhi Wells' £5m move to Burnley from Huddersfield just before 3pm, we've had a grand total of incoming permanent Premier League transfers of just under £3m, mainly in the form of Marvin Zeegelaar to Watford.

So with three and bit hours to go before the window quietly closes, the state of play for the summer is as below. Just more than £1.3bn spent, so far. A few tens of millions pounds of deals pending at Palace and Chelsea, and perhaps a few more tens after that... we'll see.

15:20
£1.3BILLION... and that's excluding loan fees

So the total gross spend by the Premier League clubs by 3pm had risen above £1.3billion, as per our latest table below.

The numbers here reflect players bought and sold for cash during this window. To be precise, so far, that's 90 players in for money (7 goalkeepers, 31 defenders, 32 midfielders and 20 strikers).

It does NOT include income from players out on loan, simply because we cannot verify the value of all those deals, and if we can't be consistent then it doesn't go in.

So Liverpool's reported £6m loan fee for sending Divock Origi for a single season on loan at Wolfsburg isn't in the table, even though it's GREAT business. And neither is Swansea's loan of Renato Sanches. Ditto.

14:11
It's PSG vs City in battle of biggest spenders

Away from the Premier League, if Paris Saint-Germain conclude their mooted outright purchase of Monaco's Kylian Mbappe (as opposed to a loan deal), they will beat the one-club spending record for one window set this summer by Manchester City.

City's gross outlay of £221.5m this window on Kyle Walker et al beat the previous record set by Real Madrid (£218m) in 2009, when Madrid's player haul that summer included Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Xabi Alonso and Karim Benzema among eight purchases.

If Mbappe moves today for the €180m that is being suggested, then PSG's summer total will rise to €418m (£385m) after deals for Neymar (€222m) and Yuri Berchiche of Real Sociedad (€16m). 

How on earth that fits into UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules is beyond me. It doesn't frankly. Not remotely. But that's a legal minefield for UEFA to negotiate and a headache for PSG to handle another day.

Kylian Mbappe is training with France but could move from Monaco to PSG today
13:34
Is 3 the magic number? Try 24...

With Tottenham confirming the signing of Serge Aurier from PSG the total gross spending of the 20 Premier League clubs this summer has just crept above the £1.3 BILLION mark.

Aurier and the only other confirmed PL signing today, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, are both aged 24. Which is pertinent because this is the window of the 24-year-olds. They are THE most valuable single age of player being bought by Premier League clubs this window, so far.

You want more detail? Okay then. As things stand, not long after 1pm on Thursday, the PL clubs have collectively bought 11 players aged 24, spending £336.3m on them, or a whopping £31m on average each. Aside from Aurier and Ox, the '24 gang' include Lukaku, Alvaro Morata, Ederson, Harry Maguire, Davy Klaassen, Antonio Rudiger, Mario Lemina (who turns 24 tomorrow), Olarenwaju Kayode and Kevin Wimmer.

We'll be number-crunching the window all day. If you've got a question about the value of particular age groups, nationalities, playing positions, then send it over via Twitter to @sportingintel ... and if there is time in the frenzy, I'll try to answer it.

Serge Aurier - aged 24 - has left PSG to join Tottenham
12:43
More bad news for Arsenal fans

Here is what the Oxlade-Chamberlain deal does to the updated spending table in the Premier League this season.

A few observations at this stage -

1: The Manchester clubs are placed first and second in net spend - can they stay there through the day?

2: The Liverpool clubs are placed third and fourth, indicative of the intent to invest in their squads this window.

3: The North London clubs are both now in the bottom three, in net profit. 

This is familiar territory for Tottenham supporters but Arsenal fans must be wondering what on earth is going on. Again. Obviously there will be plenty of movement to come and we expect a Chelsea surge later today.

On the Ox, we can only wish him well at Liverpool and hope he can still become the consistent talent that his early brilliance suggested he would be. I remember seeing him play for Saints in November 2010 at Carlisle in League One. He was 17. That League One side XI that day had little-heralded names like Adam Lallana, Morgan Schneiderlin and Jose Fonte in it.

But it was Ox who caught the eye, flying down the wing. He scored. Saints lost, 3-2. C'est la vie.

10:51
A spending table where Tottenham are not rock bottom

While we wait for confirmed deals to start filtering through, here's another perspective on the spending table with the clubs ranked by gross spending, not net.

The version below lets you see, at a glance, that Chelsea have actually done quite a lot of spending already, as one of four clubs already shelling out £100million plus in this window. And in this version Spurs are in the top half of the table, not rock bottom.

Brighton and Huddersfield are both high up in net spend, less so in gross terms. And this version also emphasises the low spend so far by Crystal Palace. 

On Palace, I can recommend that you watch the Premier League show at 10pm tonight, on which Palace chairman Steve Parish contributes to a feature about the transfer window. He has some interesting things to say about the football business and the way it works. I'll also be on there, crunching the window, if you fancy watching a bleary-eyed bloke talk about numbers.

09:59
The Ox has a sell-on clause... here's how it affects Arsenal, Liverpool and Southampton

It's probably worth emphasising that our spending table (see below) is a sophisticated beast that, wherever possible, takes into account money that Premier League clubs are receiving this summer thanks to past deals, via sell-on fees.

To give one example, Everton bought Michael Keane from Burnley, who in turn had bought him from Manchester United in 2015.

Under the sales terms two years ago, United were due a sell-on fee if Burnley sold him. So Everton's payment for the player is in their gross spending column, but in terms of income, Burnley are not credited with all the cash as some of it has gone to United.

What we DON'T include in the table is add-ons or sell-amounts for players sold this summer, because those numbers haven't been realised yet.

And on the same subject, my understanding is that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's sale to Liverpool (assuming there are no hitches) will lead to a sell-on payment to Southampton - but not a big one.

The Ox left for Arsenal for a basic £12m in 2011 and Saints, contrary to some reports, did not have a big sell-on cut, nothing like the 50 per cent reported in some places. I understand it was actually closer to 10 per cent of future profit.

So lets do the maths: Ox sold for £35m (and £5m add-ons) to Liverpool is a £23m profit for Arsenal on the £12m. So Saints will be due 10 per cent of that sum. Or £2.3m.

When the deal is complete, our table will reflect Liverpool paying £35m, but Arsenal getting 'only' £32.7m and Saints the balance.

No need to thank me. It's all part of our service.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is training with England today but now has a new club to return to
09:30
Premier League clubs set for £1.5BILLION spend this summer

The Premier League surpassed its own spending record for one window (set last summer) with nine days remaining. And so we enter the last day of trading for this year, with gross outlay for the 20 clubs combined standing at £1.24 billion.

It could be a crazy day of splashing out that takes that total close to £1.5bn. Or it could be a damp squib. As ever with football, we don't know... and that's the beauty of it. (Football that is, not this orgy of consumerism).

The version of the Premier League table below ranks the clubs in terms of net spend. Manchester City have spent most so far (gross, and net). To put this in some context their £221.5m, gross, by themselves, is more than all 20 clubs combined spent in 2004 (£215m).

Manchester United are next and Romelu Lukaku is the leader in the clubhouse as the most expensive player this summer so far at £75m. Then it's Everton, Leicester and West Brom.

At the other end, four clubs are in net profit currently, with Tottenham 'leading' in this regard at this stage and Swansea, Burnley and Stoke the others.

09:26
Good morning, welcome to deadline day!

Here's where you'll find all the latest information on the staggering financial figures generated over the day and following a crazy summer of transfer spending.

Nick Harris is busy number crunching in a darkened room, so I'll bring you all his latest findings as he feeds them over.

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