Liverpool top agent fee spending list in Premier League
Tuesday 3 April 2018 22:54, UK
Liverpool were the biggest spenders on agents in the Premier League last year with £26.8m paid on fees.
Football Association data was released on Tuesday showing expenditure from 1 February 2017 to 31 January 2018 with top-flight clubs paying £211m to agents - an increase of £37m (21 per cent).
Liverpool have been active in the transfer market over the last year with the acquisition of forward Mohamed Salah from Roma and centre-half Virgil van Dijk from Southampton.
English clubs across the top five leagues spent £257m - an increase of £37m (17 per cent). National League club Aldershot, pushing for a return to the Football League, were bottom of the spending list on £112.
Chelsea paid a total of £25.1m, while Premier League leaders Manchester City spent £23.4m. Manchester United were fourth (£18m) and Watford fifth (£13.4m).
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Everton are sixth in the list (£12m), followed by Arsenal (£10.56m), Leicester (£9.91m), West Ham (£8.39m) and Bournemouth (£7.73m).
Huddersfield were the lowest spenders in the top flight having paid just £2.47m to agents.
Promotion hopefuls from the Championship Aston Villa were the biggest spenders in the second tier after paying £5.51m.
Blackburn Rovers, relegated from the Championship last season, paid £764,000, while Wigan, who also dropped down to League One, spent £557,000 on agent fees.
The lowest spenders in League Two were Crawley Town (£4,680).
