£117m, £116m, and Counting: The Premier League's Nine-Figure Summer Enters Its Final Month
With the window closing September 1, two British-record-scale deals headline a transfer market where £100m has quietly become the going rate for elite domestic talent.
One month from deadline day, the summer of 2026 already has a defining theme: Premier League clubs paying nine figures for players from other Premier League clubs.
The headline deals
Chelsea paid a reported £117m to take Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa, while Manchester City spent a reported £116m on Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson — the two biggest deals of the window, according to Football365's running list of confirmed transfers. Both are homegrown England internationals in their early-to-mid 20s, exactly the profile the market now prices most aggressively.
Tottenham have been the volume spenders: Sandro Tonali arrived from Newcastle in a deal reported by Sky Sports at around £100m (Football365 lists £92.5m), alongside Mateus Fernandes from West Ham for a reported £85m.
Newcastle, cashing out
The Tonali sale is half of a striking Newcastle story. The club also let Anthony Gordon join Barcelona for a reported £69m, per Football365 — meaning two of their biggest stars departed for a combined sum reported north of £160m. How that money is reinvested on Tyneside is one of the window's biggest open questions; Bazoumana Touré's reported £40m arrival from Hoffenheim looks like the start, not the end.
Elsewhere, Rasmus Højlund made his Manchester United exit permanent, joining Napoli for a reported £38m, and Villa moved quickly to redeploy the Rogers money, bringing in João Gomes from Wolves for a reported £38m.
What's left
The window opened June 15 and shuts at 11pm UK time on Tuesday, September 1, per Sky Sports — and with ESPN's club-by-club tracker showing most title contenders still with squad gaps, the spending is unlikely to be finished. If two £115m-plus deals landed before August, deadline day could be historic.