3) Chelsea – £654.0m

Lukaku

For all of Roman Abramovich’s lavish spending in the early years, the Blues are now extremely well run under the stewardship of director Marina Granovskaia.

Chelsea do still shell out big sums on star names, as we have seen with Romelu Lukaku just this summer, but they have raised a lot of money through player sales in recent seasons too.

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.