Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool: The Premier League's 13 biggest ever spending sprees

Chelsea spent big this summer. Like, really big. Like, record-breaking big.

As confirmed by the Daily Mail, Chelsea spent the single-most money of any Premier League club in history over the course of a summer transfer window as they smashed through the £250-million ceiling.

Now that’s quite the statement considering many Blues fans were understandably concerned that their transfer spending might fall off a cliff in the post-Roman Abramovich era.

But alas, Todd Boehly has given Thomas Tuchel all the resources he needs and then some in order to get the Blues competing for the Premier League and Champions League trophies again.

However, as we wait and see whether the west London club’s heavy spending will pay off, let’s take a look at the dizzying transfer windows that Chelsea surpassed to break the record.

What was the previous high watermark? Which clubs spend the most… most often? How recently were these splurges splurged? How many of them transpired this summer?

Well, these are the sorts of questions that we’re going to answer because we’ve called upon Transfermarkt data to work out the 13 biggest spending sprees in Premier League history.

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To clarify, we mean by a single club in a single transfer window with each example in our list having surpassed the £150-million mark and none of them transpired during the January spending.

Plus, bear in mind that transfer fees do, of course, differ slightly from source to source, hence our use of Transfermarkt throughout in the interest of consistency.

But enough with the disclaimers because we’ve got some big bucks to check out as we walk through the 13 highest-spending transfer