4) Liverpool – £532.5m

The Reds’ have always been perceived as being rather conservative in the transfer market, spending what they bring in through sales, but they have broken their transfer record a number of times over the past five years.

Naby Keita (£52.5m) Alisson Becker (£67m) and Virgil van Dijk (£75m) were all brought in for large sums and helped them to challenge for trophies under manager Jurgen Klopp.

David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.