I'll start with the fact our squad values at the end of the season totalled FF£2.6bn, up £100m on last season and a new record.
Last year I asked if were back to our spend, spend, spend days. The Expenditure section will answer that question but first...
Income
With £737m paid for our players it was a big season on the income front. The third biggest in fact, only behind 2017/18 and 2019/20 since records began at the end of the 2006/07 season.
Three teams brought in nearly half of that between them, three others combined to make sales of less than £15m.
Expenditure
[New record klaxon!] We manage to spend £962m on players between this season. That beats the previous record of £831m set in 2017/18.
Two teams spent more than £100m this season and three more over £80m. At the other end of the scale, four teams spent less than £30m on additions to their squad.
Overall
All that added up to a £224m loss on the season. That's the third biggest seasonal loss but a long way behind the £453m in 2020/21.
Only two teams had a deficit of more than £35m which suggests the spending was largely sensible. Four teams made a profit on transfers this season but none of those exceeded £20m.
So what's next - the first billion pound spend season? One thing that will happen is us going through the £10bn spent barrier. OucH!
(Bear in mind that these figures might be wrong. But they won't be wrong by much. Hardly at all in fact.)
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