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Premier League clubs paid a total of £272million to agents over the last year, with Chelsea topping the list of top-flight spenders.
The Football Association has released its annual record of payments involving new signings from the start of February 2020 to the end of January 2021, which reveals the amount given to agents and intermediaries.
Chelsea splashed more than £200m on summer signings, and the report shows the Blues also forked out £35m in agent fees.
With Ben Chilwell, Hakim Ziyech, Edouard Mendy, Thiago Silva, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz all arriving, Chelsea accounted for 12 per cent of all money paid to agents by Premier League clubs.
The total figure of £272m, which also covers money paid to agents for contract renewals and free transfers, was up £9m on last year.
Manchester City spent £30m and local rivals United were third on the list having paid £29m to agents.
Liverpool were next with a bill of £21m, while north London clubs Tottenham and Arsenal both spent £16m.
Net total paid to agents/intermediaries
West Brom – £4,222,059
Burnley – £4,458,520
Crystal Palace – £6,760,093
Southampton – £6,804,154
Leeds – £7,034,943
Sheffield United – £7,081,018
Brighton – £7,496,038
Aston Villa – £8,928,343
Fulham – £9,347,927
West Ham – £9,689,567
Newcastle – £11,349,953
Leicester – £12,518,018
Wolves – £12,598,466
Everton – £14,071,886
Arsenal – £16,462,480
Tottenham – £16,520,177
Liverpool – £21,652,589
Manchester United – £29,801,555
Manchester City – £30,174,615
Chelsea – £35,247,822
Agents fees are a controversial topic in world football right now – under planned FIFA reforms, they would be capped at three per cent of any given deal.
That has sparked a furious response from Mino Raiola, who represents many of the game’s top players such as Paul Pogba, Erling Haaland and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The ‘super agent’ recently told talkSPORT 2: “To break away the attention from the real problems FIFA has, they started to attack the agents as a group, with regulations which are nonsensical.
“Because we take too much money out of the game or we are worthless or we are criminals – to take away the problems from them.”
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