There has been an exorbitant amount of cash floating around in Premier League bank accounts in recent years, and even in a post-pandemic world and PSR era, transfer records are constantly fluctuating.
In the summer of 2025, four Premier League clubs received record transfer fees.
So which player earned the highest amount in the club’s history?
Premier League club transfer turnover record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
rank | club | player | Sales destination | commission |
1 | liverpool | Philippe Coutinho | Barcelona | £142m |
2 | newcastle | alexander isak | liverpool | £125m |
3 | brighton | Moises Caicedo | chelsea | £115m |
4 | west ham | Declan Rice | arsenal | £105m |
5 | Aston Villa | Jack Grealish | man city | 100 million pounds |
6 | everton | Romelu Lukaku | manchester united | £90m |
7 | chelsea | eden hazard | real madrid | £89m |
8 | tottenham | Gareth Bale | real madrid | £85.3 million |
9 | man city | julian alvarez | atlético madrid | £81.5m |
10 | manchester united | Cristiano Ronaldo | real madrid | £80 million |
11 | brentford | Brian Mbeumo | manchester united | £71 million |
12 | bournemouth | Dominic Solanke | tottenham | £65m |
13 | wolf | Matheus Cunha | manchester united | £62.5m |
14 | crystal palace | Aaron Wan-Bissaka | manchester united | £50m |
15 | Fulham | Aleksandar Mitrovic | Al Hilal | £50m |
16 | nottingham forest | brennan johnson | tottenham | £45m |
17 | leeds united | George Rutter | brighton | £40m |
18 | arsenal | Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain | liverpool | £35m |
19 | sunderland | jordan pickford | everton | £30 million |
20 | burnley | james trafford | man city | £27m |
Highest record among all 20 Premier League clubs
From Manchester City to Ipswich Town, we take a look at the most expensive signings for each Premier League club.
Arsenal: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
£35m to Liverpool, 2017
Given the amount of money Arsenal have splurged on in recent years, it is perhaps surprising that the record sale dates back so far.
However, the Gunners have always been a hard sell, especially under Arsene Wenger, and when Liverpool brought in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in 2017, just months after the midfielder led Arsenal to victory in the FA Cup, they received a rather hefty £35m fee.
Given that Oxlade-Chamberlain only had a brief moment of brilliance at Anfield, Arsenal could write this off as an admirable job.
Aston Villa: Jack Grealish
£100m to Man City in 2021
After leading Aston Villa to promotion and then a stay in the Premier League, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before Jack Grealish took the next step in his career.
To the Villans’ credit, they kept the Englishman in action for another year, but they couldn’t say no to champions Manchester City, who made a British-record nine-figure bid in the summer of 2021.
Grealish was part of City’s treble-winning side in 2022/23, while Villa went from strength to strength in his absence, reaching the Champions League with Man City in 2024/25. Grealish’s departure may have been bittersweet, but things are going pretty well for the Midlands outfit.
Bournemouth: Dominic Solanke
£65m to Tottenham, 2024
Bournemouth broke their own transfer record in 2024, but not before receiving the club’s biggest ever transfer fee for one of their players.
Dominic Solanke’s move to Tottenham Hotspur cost the North Londoners £65m, more than the £40m they received from Manchester City for Nathan Ake in 2020.
Cherries responded to Solanke’s departure by signing Evanilsson from FC Porto for just over £40 million.
Brentford: Brian Mbeumo
£71m to Manchester United, 2025
Brentford have been plundered in recent years with Ivan Toney heading to Saudi Arabia, Yoan Ouissa to Newcastle and big man Brian Mbeumo heading to Manchester United in a huge £71m deal in the summer of 2025.
Mbeumo was one of the standout players in the Premier League in 2024/25, scoring a top-flight 20 goals. This number of goals was enough to warrant a transfer, and he duly scored them.
Brighton: Moises Caicedo.
£115m to Chelsea, 2023
Moises Caicedo has attracted interest from Chelsea and Liverpool in the summer of 2023, with the Ecuadorian choosing the Blues as his next destination after Brighton & Hove Albion accepted huge bids from both clubs.
Despite sanctioning a £111m move to the Reds, Chelsea have decided to go further by penning a deal that could rise to a further £115m.
It is reported that £15 million of this is for appearance-related add-ons.
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Burnley: James Trafford
£27m to Manchester City, 2025
James Trafford was outstanding for the Clarets during their promotion-winning season in 2024/25.
The goalkeeper has kept a whopping 29 clean sheets. Quickly becoming one of England’s best stoppers, Man City paid a £27 million transfer fee to lure him back to the club where he grew up.
Sadly for Trafford, when the Citizens brought in Gianluigi Donnarumma, he was immediately sent off.
Chelsea: Eden Hazard
£89m to Real Madrid, 2019
Chelsea have a history of receiving big transfer fees for their players in recent years, and while Eden Hazard is arguably one of Chelsea’s better stars in the last decade or so, the £89 million he received upfront from Real Madrid turned out to be prohibitively expensive.
Hazard’s achievements in leading Chelsea to Europa League glory mean the deal that sends the Belgian to the Santiago Bernabéu could be worth more than £150m. However, it’s highly doubtful that many of the add-ons were activated, considering the Blues legend played just 76 games in an injury-plagued four years with Madrid before retiring.
Still, this is arguably the highest fee Chelsea have ever received, and the closest to the £65m that Kai Havertz paid for Arsenal.
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Crystal Palace: Aaron Wan-Bissaka
£50m to Manchester United, 2019
Manchester United’s spending spree in 2019 featured on this list multiple times, with them spending around £150m that summer alone. A significant part of that led to the £50m signing of Aaron Wan-Bissaka from Crystal Palace.
The next six years were not so rosy for both the club and the player, with the Red Devils suffering a huge loss by selling the full-back to West Ham United ahead of the 2024/25 season.
The Eagles have always been resolute when it comes to high-profile interest in players, but their resolve was recently put to the test once again in 2024 as Newcastle look to add Marc Guehi to their squad, while potentially outweighing Wan-Bissaka’s fee.
Everton: Romelu Lukaku
£90m for Manchester United, 2017
Everything has been downhill for Everton since selling Romelu Lukaku in 2017 and signing Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford.
However, Everton managed to secure a big fee for the striker, with United paying the Toffees an initial £75m in a deal that included an additional £15m.
It is unclear to what extent these were triggered, but Everton have since struggled on and off the pitch, finishing in the top half only once in the 2020s and remaining outside of Europe since the Belgian’s departure in 2019, while facing financial scrutiny after a number of failed transfers.
Fulham: Alexander Mitrovic
£50m for Al Hilal, 2023
Fulham was one of the many victims of attacks on European-based footballers by the Saudi Professional League. Their wealth is too great for Aleksandar Mitrovic to ignore in the summer of 2023, and he almost took manager Marco Silva with him.
However, Fulham returned to manager Mitrovic for the 2022/23 season, enjoyed a comfortable first season, and have remained a solid top club ever since.
They have invested wisely the £50m that Saudi champions Al Hilal are said to have paid for Serbian players, with Rodrigo Muniz among those who have shined at Craven Cottage.
