How the 2023 summer transfer window broke the Premier League spending record
Football and money have always had an intimate relationship and it has only grown more obvious and grotesque since the dawn of the Premier League. Last summer saw Premier League clubs spend a remarkable and frankly obscene amount of money in the transfer market, creating a new division record in the process. But this record did not stand for long and has already been toppled by this summer's investments. Premier League clubs have forked out just shy of £2bn already this summer, with little under a week of the transfer window remaining. With the insane and hectic spending of deadline day still to come, this total is likely to increase significantly in the coming days. The truly unbelievable thing about such ludicrous wealth being invested into England's top-flight is that it will all happen again next year, and it will be even bigger and more eye-watering. What was the 2022/23 spending record? Nunez could cost Liverpool approximately £84m / NIGEL RODDIS/GettyImages Collectively,...