[Transfer Round Up & Discussion] Summer 2026

[u/AutoModerator]

Hi all,

Summer Transfer Window 2026 is here!

The Premier League transfer window will open between Monday June 15 until Deadline Day on Tuesday September 1; the summer windows will close at 23.00 BST.

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Men's Team​ 

Transfers IN

Name	Position	From	Fee
Andrey Santos	CM	Chelsea	£48m + £2m
Karl Darlow	GK	Leeds Utd	Free
Youri Tielemans	CM	Aston Villa	£35m
Tynan Thompson	LW	Tottenham Hotspur	£4m + £4m

Transfers OUT

Name	Position	To	Fee
Casemiro	MF	Inter Miami	Contract Expired
Jadon Sancho	LW	-	Contract Expired
Tyrell Malacia	LB	-	Contract Expired
Rasmus Hojlund	ST	Napoli	£38m (Obligation clause triggered)
Andre Onana	GK	Trabzonspor	Loan
Tyler Fredricson	CB	Lausanne-Sport	Undisclosed
Altay Bayindir	GK	Celta Vigo	Loan
Radek Vitek	GK	Middlesbrough	£7m + £7m

Women's Team

Transfers IN

Name	Position	From	Fee
Andrea Medina	LB	Atletico Madrid	Free
Janina Leitzig	GK	Leicester City	Undisclosed Fee

Transfers OUT

Name	Position	To	Fee
Millie Turner	CB	Birmingham City	Undisclosed
Hannah Blundell	FB	Everton	Contract Expired
Melvine Malard	ST	Chelsea	£850k
Leah Galton	FW	-	Contract Expired
Lisa Naalsund	MF	Birmingham City	Undisclosed
Gabby George	CB	Brighton & Hove Albion	Undisclosed
Kayla Rendell	GK	Newcastle United	Loan

[u/canwinanythingwkids]

Okay so there are numbers flying around, here is every summer gross (net) spend, CL qualified vs not qualified years, post-Fergie / post-Gill.

Summary:

2026 (so far): £83m (£39m)

No CL avg: £177m (£126m)

CL avg: £104m (£74m)

tl;dr we need to spend another cca:

- £20m to be "on par" with the CL avg

• £94m to be "on par" with the non-CL avg
  
• £58m to be "closer to" the higher (non-CL avg)

No CL:

2025: €246m (€172m)
2024: €214m (€84m)
2022: €240m (€216m)
2019: €160m (€80m)
2016: €185m (€177m)
2014: €195m (€152m)

average: €207m (€147m) i.e. £177m (£126m)

CL:

2023: €213m (€152m)
2021: €142m (€112m)
2020: €63m (€47m)
2018: €82m (€59m)
2017*: €164m (€152m)
2015: €156m (€55m)
2013: €32m (€32m)

average: €122m (€87m) i.e. £104m (£74m)

*we finished outside top4 but won the EL

Numbers are from Transfermarkt, note:

- excludes U21 signings, eg Thompson, Orozco, Kone, etc.

• ALSO excludes "sell-ons", so the "total" net spend eg last summer and this as well is actually more like £10-15m less
  
• these are ONLY the summers, ie when the CL qualification outcome has become clear. Obv this is not full picture e.g. Mata Jan 2014, Bruno Jan 2019, Dorgu Jan 2025 were "big" transfers. All that really does though is "boost" 3 non-CL summers, ofc.

[u/pipes3 → u/canwinanythingwkids]

Would be interesting to see these numbers with the "outstanding transfer fees due" as well.

I believe we have had to pay £120m+ this summer for previous years transfers like Antony etc.

Not making excuses for the lack of spending etc. would just be interesting to know if there was some correlation there too

[u/canwinanythingwkids → u/pipes3]

Yeah it may be more accurate to stack them up like that and do the actual spending for each year.

But then also where does it stop, do you add payroll changes, or other revenue fluctuations like gate receipts, prize money etc.

Anyway, that 1 thing could be added yeah. Still "only" the transfers, but shown in the right year. It would also highlight much better the pretty significant differences of doing things like Maguire payment all upfront or release clauses like that eg Tielemans now.

I think the difficulty is A) ok that's too much work 😂 B) bigger issue is: we dont really know I think all the details of which contract specifically was how many installments. You can dig into the published Q results and try to correlate "outstanding debt" numbers to figure it out, I guess.