With the year starting with a one-off player draft and loan fees being introduced for the first time it's hard to compare this year with previous but let's do it anyway.
Expenditure
Unsurprisingly because of the above fake money spend was down. By around a considerable £250m from last season in fact. Eleven teams spent between £21m and £45m, three were over the top figure, two under the lower.
Income
Income was down too - at just less than FF£550m it's the lowest for three years. It was a bit lop-sided when individual teams are taken into account. Four teams brought in less than £16m each while four teams recouped more than £50m.
Overall
With regards to profit and loss for teams this season it was nine making a loss and seven a profit. All the losses bar one were less than £20m, all the profits bar one were less than £20m. That all led to an overall transfer loss on the season of £36m or thereabouts.
If there's one interesting conclusion to draw from all this it's the recent trend of balancing the books.
For the first ten seasons I have records of this stuff nine of them had overall losses of £140m or more. The last three seasons combined have seen us rack up combined losses of 'only' £81.5m. Are we getting prudent in our old age?
Last year's analysis
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