Chelsea top Premier League payments to agents over 2023/24 season

  • Premier League clubs spent over £400m on agent fees between February 2023 and 2024
  • Chelsea & Man City lead spending from England's top clubs
  • Luton sit bottom of the standings with just £2m spent
Chelsea's owners parted with huge agents fees
Chelsea's owners parted with huge agents fees / Clive Rose/GettyImages
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Chelsea paid a whopping £75.1m to agent and intermediaries between February 2023 and February 2024, more than any other Premier League side.

Figures released by the Football Association revealed the Premier League spent a combined £409.5m on agents across the 12-month period in question, with Chelsea making up nearly a quarter of that figure alone.

Chelsea wrapped up the signings of Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Christopher Nkunku, Cole Palmer, Axel Disasi, Nicolas Jackson, Robert Sanchez, Lesley Ugochukwu, Deivid Washington, Angelo, Djordje Petrovic and Diego Moreira during the summer transfer window, taking the club's transfer spending to over £1bn since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital took charge in 2022, before the Blues declined to add to that spending in January.

Behind's Chelsea's £75.1m spend on agents, Manchester City sit second in the standings with £60.6m, with those two clubs well clear of third-placed Manchester United at £34m.

Liverpool (£31.5m), Arsenal (£24.7m) and Aston Villa (£21.1m) all parted with big sums for agents, as did Tottenham (£19.7m) and Newcastle United (£18.8m).


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Pep Guardiola's Man City also spent big / Ion Alcoba Beitia/GettyImages

Last season's relegated trio, Leeds United (£13.2m), Leicester City (£8.1m) and Southampton (£7.5m), unsurprisingly lead the payments from team's in the Championship, where the total spend reached £61.3m.

Derby County lead League One with £434,465, while in League Two, high-flying Wrexham parted with £347,027 to agents and intermediaries, at least twice as much as any other club in the division aside from Forest Green Rovers.


Premier League clubs' payments to agents between February 2023 and February 2024

Club

Payments

Chelsea

£75,140,524

Manchester City

£60,626,025

Manchester United

£34,054,001

Liverpool

£31,500,211

Arsenal

£24,760,875

Aston Villa

£21,160,122

Tottenham

£19,731,099

Newcastle

£18,881,923

Bournemouth

£15,999,925

West Ham

£13,880,365

Wolves

£13,392,541

Nottingham Forest

£13,063,455

Fulham

£12,062,906

Brighton

£11,393,102

Crystal Palace

£11,082,430

Everton

£10,623,224

Brentford

£8,147,957

Burnley

£6,944,589

Sheffield United

£5,127,509

Luton Town

£2,020,146


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