Saudi Pro League splashes out £700m on transfers to boost £6BILLION summer spend worldwide

08.09.2023 - 12:35 dailyrecord.co.uk

Big spending Saudi clubs contributed a whopping £700million to the £6billion spent on international transfers during the summer window.

Only the English Premier League dropped more cash than the new kids on the football block. Teams in the English top flight spent just under £1.6bn on overseas deals alone, according to FIFA's International Transfer Snapshot which was published on Friday.

In total, 7.36bn US dollars (£5.89bn) was spent globally in the summer window, while agents' fees for 2023 are already at a record annual high - 696.6m US dollars or £558m.

The spending on deals in 2023 is a 47 per cent increase on the same period last year, and 26.8 per cent up on the previous mid-year record set in 2019.

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