Window closed · 2 Sep 2026
The window shut. The ledger didn't.
Twenty clubs, eleven weeks, and 542 separate reasons to lose track of who plays for whom. We built a single page that keeps count so you don't have to.
Somewhere around deadline day, every transfer window stops being a story and starts being a spreadsheet. Sandro Tonali goes one way, Nico Gonzalez goes the other, and by the time Chelsea have finished their 44th piece of business you've lost the thread entirely. That's the moment this dashboard was built for: one page, every confirmed deal from 15 June to the 23:00 BST cut-off on 1 September, kept straight so you don't have to hold it in your head.
It isn't a highlights reel. It's a ledger — searchable, sortable, and built to answer the question you actually have, whichever one that is.
OPEN THE LEDGER →Who actually spent the money
Total outlay across the league passed £3.5bn this summer, but the number that matters is never the total — it's who's carrying it. Liverpool posted the heaviest net spend in the league; Chelsea, despite landing the record fee themselves, ended up the biggest net sellers once Enzo Fernandez's outgoing £125m was counted against everything they brought in.
Net spend, selected clubs
That's one view. The dashboard has three others sitting right next to it, built from the same 542 rows.
The ledger
Every deal, filterable by club, player, or deal type — permanent, loan, free, undisclosed, swap, release, retirement. Switch between a club-by-club view and a pure cost ranking with one click.
The trading network
Deals between two Premier League clubs happen in both directions on paper. This view draws the actual traffic between them, so the Newcastle–Arsenal axis — Bruno Guimaraes one way, plenty coming back the other — is visible at a glance instead of buried in two separate club pages.
Stats lab
For the deal-obsessed: a spend-versus-recouped scatter plot with a least-squares fit, a bootstrap resampler for fee distributions, a Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient for just how unequal the spending really was, and a higher-or-lower guessing game built entirely from real fees — including, if you're brave, an undisclosed one.
What each line of the pitch cost
Every player tagged by position, so you can see in one panel whether the league spent this summer on centre-backs or wingers — toggle between broad lines (defence, midfield, attack) and the full breakdown by role.
It's one page. No login, no tracking — open it and every number is already there.
Built to be checked, not just believed
Every fee is the figure reported at the time of announcement, generally inclusive of add-ons clubs never confirm — so treat every number as a best public estimate, not gospel. Undisclosed fees, loan payments and wages sit outside every total on the page. Where a deal happened between two Premier League clubs, it appears once on each side's books, which is exactly why the trading-network view exists: to stop that double-counting from hiding the real picture.
Small things, added because they were useful rather than because a checklist demanded them: a dark and light theme that remembers your choice, a permalink button that captures your exact tab and filters in the URL so you can send someone the precise view you're looking at, and a print stylesheet for the one person who wants this on paper.
Who it's for
- Anyone who wants to know what their club actually spent, net of sales, without doing the arithmetic themselves
- Anyone settling an argument about who "won" the window
- Anyone who wants to see the whole league's business laid out at once, not doled out across forty separate live blogs
The transfer window is the most-covered, least-summarised event in football. Hundreds of individual deals, reported individually, rarely add up to anything you can actually look at. This is what it adds up to — three views on the same 542 rows, however you'd rather see them.
OPEN THE LEDGER →Updated through deadline day, 1 September 2026