2024/25 Co-Ord Round-Up Part One - Transfer Dealings

Last year I confidently predicted that the 2024/25 season would be our first billion fantasy spend transfer spend year. I was wrong. Both transfer income and expenditure was (slightly) down on the previous season.

Income

Across the league transfer income was down around £120m on the (record-breaking) year before. Four teams brought in more than £100m with one narrowly beating the £178.3m previous best.

Four other teams had income of £70m+ with seven not making it £50m this season.

Expenditure

A third year in a row of transfer spend in the 900m+ bracket. The smallest of those three though.

Two teams smashed the previous spend record of £143m in a single season. One other forked out in excess of £100m and two more broke the £70m barrier. At the other end of the scale ten teams spent less than £45m.

Overall

While not a record it's another chunky profit across the league of £160m+. One team made a nine figure profit on their dealings and nine more were on the happy side of the ledger, albeit only two over £25m.

Of the six making a loss, three were tiny, two were middling and one was hefty!

I'm going to say it again - Surely the £1bn spend barrier will be broken next season.

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