Premier League clubs spend £67m on agents 01/12/2010 |
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Chelsea and Liverpool paid out £9.2m and £9m respectively to agents in the year ending in September 2010, according to Premier League figures.
That was £3m higher than the next biggest club, Manchester City, which splashed out £5.9m on agents.
In all, £67.1m changed hands between the 20 top-flight clubs and agents for the period October 2009 to September 2010 – £3.5m less than the previous 12 months.
Blackpool was bottom of the top-flight agent table having spent just £45,000.
Chelsea's spending on agents' fees in the 12 months was down slightly on the previous period but Liverpool increased its outlay by £2.4m.
Chelsea bought just two players between October 2009 and September 2010 but the £9.2m figure reflects agent fees from previous periods where the payment had been structured over more than one year.
Manchester City more than halved its spending – from £12.8m to £5.9m – while neighbours Manchester United’s increased by £800,000 to £2.3m.
A total of 742 transactions, some of which did not involve agents' fees, took place in the year to the end of September 2010 compared to 792 a year earlier.
It is the second year in which the Premier League has released the figures, having followed the example of the Football League which first published its spending reports in 2004.
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