2023/24 Co-ord Round-up Part One - Transfer Dealings

Here's what I said last year: "So what's next - the first billion pound spend season? One thing that will happen is us going through the £10bn spent barrier. OucH!" (I've given the typo in!)

Both of these were true.

Income

£1.2bn to be precise. Two teams went through the previous record of £151m, three more went through the £100m barrier. On the other side of the coin eight teams didn't make £50m of sales.

Expenditure

We just went through last season's record of £962m but still haven't hit the £1bn mark. Three teams spent more than £100m, including one that set a new single season spending record, and two more £90m plus.

Nine teams spent less than £90m.

Overall

A rare profit on the season, of £250m too. One team set a new single season profit record (nine figures!), two more made profits in excess of £60m. On the deficit side, six sides made losses. All were less than £20m apart from one team that came in at more than twice that.

I fancy the next couple of auctions could be chaos. Surely the £1bn spend will go next season.

(Bear in mind that these figures might be wrong. But they won't be wrong by much. Hardly at all in fact.)