City's sheiks reach cash peak

At the City of Manchester Stadium in Eastlands, club owner Sheik Monsour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak left their rivals gasping in the chase to sign the best players during the transfer windows this season.

Manchester City spent a staggering £130 million during this campaign.

The next club in the spending list are Aston Villa. They forked out a total of £43.2m on new signings.

On the other side of the coin, Manchester United earned £91m − mostly through the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid (transfer fee was a world record £80m).

Tottenham were the big spenders in 2009 with an outlay of £109m. This season, however, they limited their spending to £27m.

Seven clubs in the previous season's list of spenders remained in the top half of the classification for this campaign. These are Tottenham, Manchester City, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Sunderland and Stoke City.

2009-10 signings

Arsenal
Ins: Thomas Vermaelen from Ajax − £10m; Sol Campbell − Unattached; Samuel Galindo from Real America − £750,000.

Aston Villa
Ins: Courtney Cameron from Northampton − £750,000; Stewart Downing from Middlesbrough − £12m; Fabian Delph from Leeds − £8m; Habib Beye from Newcastle − £3.5m; Andy Marshall from Coventry − free; Stephen Warnock from Blackburn − £8m; Richard Dunne from Manchester City − £6m; James Collins from West Ham − £5m.

Birmingham City
Ins: Scott Dann from Coventry − £4.5m; Christian Benitez from Santos Laguna − £9m; Joe Hart from Manchester City − loan; Giovanni Espinoza from Barcelona Sporting − £1m; Roger Johnson from Cardiff - £5m; Lee Bowyer from West Ham − free; Barry Ferguson from Rangers − £1.25m; James O'Shea from Galway Utd − £700,000; Gregory Vignal from Lens − free; Teemu Tainio from Sunderland − loan; Michel from Sporting Gijon − £3m.

Blackburn Rovers
Ins: Elrio van Heerden from Club Brugge − free; Gael Givet from Marseille − £3.5m; Lars Jacobsen from Everton − free; Steven N'Zonzi from Amiens − £450,000; Nikola Kalinic from Hajduk Split − £6m; Nathan Ellington from Watford − free; Michel Salgado from Real Madrid − free; Pascal Chimbonda from Tottenham − £2m; Yildiray Basturk from Stuttgart − loan; Amine Linganzi from St Etienne − free.

Bolton Wanderers
Ins: Sean Davis from Portsmouth − free; Paul Robinson from West Brom − loan; Lee Chung-yong from FC Seoul − £2m; Zat Knight from Aston Villa − £3.5m; Sam Ricketts from Hull − £2.1m; Ivan Klasnic from Nantes − loan; Vladimir Weiss from Man City − loan; Stewart Holden from Houston Dynamo − free; Jack Wilshire from Arsenal − loan.

Burnley
Ins: David Edgar from Newcastle − free; Steven Fletcher from Hibernian − £3m; Tyrone Mears from Derby − £500,000; Richard Eckersley from Manchester United − £1.2m; Brian Easton from Hamilton − £350,000; Fernando Guerrero from Independiente del Valle − loan; Andre Bikey from Reading − £2m; Frederic Nimani from Monaco − loan; Nicky Weaver − unattached; Danny Fox from Celtic − £750,000; Leon Cort from Stoke − £1.5m; Jack Cork from Chelsea − loan.

Chelsea
Ins: Daniel Sturridge from Manchester City − £3.5m; Ross Turnbull from Middlesbrough − free; Yuri Zhirkov from CSKA Moscow − £18m; Nemanja Matic from MFK Kosice − £1.5m.

Everton
Ins: Anton Peterlin from Ventura County Fusion − free; Shkodran Mustafi from Hamburg − £550,000; Diniyar Bilyaletdinov from Lokomotiv Moscow − £9m; Sylvain Distin from Portsmouth − £2m; Johnny Heitinga from Atletico Madrid − £6m; Landon Donovan from LA Galaxy − loan.

Fulham
Ins: Stephen Kelly from Birmingham − free; Bjorn Helge Riise from Lillestrom − £850,000; Damien Duff from Newcastle − £4m; Jonathan Greening from West Brom − loan; Kagisho Dikgacoi from Golden Arrows − £1m; Christopher Buchtmann from Liverpool − £750,000; Stefano Okaka from Roma − loan; Nicky Shorey from Aston Villa − loan.

Hull City
Ins: Steven Moyokolo from Boulogne − free; Jozy Altidore from Villarreal − £6m; Seyi Olifinjana from Stoke − £3m; Stephen Hunt from Reading − £6m; Kamel Gilas from Celta Vigo − £2m; Ibrahim Sonko from Stoke − loan; Paul McShane from Sunderland − £1.4m; Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink from Celtic − free; Amr Zaki from Zamalek − loan.

Liverpool
Ins: Jesus Fernandez Saez from Cadiz − £1m; Glen Johnson from Portsmouth − £18m; Chris Mavinga from Paris St Germain − £550,000; Alberto Aquilani from Roma − £18m; Sotirios Kyrgiakos from AEK Athens − £2m. Maxi Rodriguez from Atletico Madrid − free.

Manchester City
Ins: Roque Santa Cruz from Blackburn − £18m; Gareth Barry from Aston Villa − £12m; Stuart Taylor from Aston Villa − £2.5m; Nils Zander from Schalke − £1m; Carlos Tevez, unattached − £25.5m; Emmanuel Adebayor from Arsenal − £25m; Kolo Toure from Arsenal − £16m; George Wood from Cardiff − £1m; Joleon Lescott from Everton for £22m; Sylvinho from Barcelona − free; Adam Johnson from Middlesrbrough − £7m; Patrick Vieira from Inter − free.

Manchester United
Ins: Antonio Valencia from Wigan − £16m; Gabriel Obertan from Bordeaux − £3m; Michael Owen − unattached; Mame Biram Diouf from Molde FK − £1m. Chris Smalling from Fulham (still on loan with the Cottagers).

Portsmouth
Ins: Aaron Mokoena from Blackburn − free; Steve Finnan from Espanyol − free; Frederic Piquionne from Lyon − loan; Antti Niemi − unattached; Anthony Vanden Borre from Genoa − loan; Michael Brown from Wigan − £500,000; Kevin Prince Boateng from Tottenham − £4m; Jamie O'Hara from Tottenham − loan; Aruna Dindane from Lens − loan; Tommy Smith from Watford − £1.8m; Tal Ben Haim from Manchester City − £1.2m; Hassan Yebda from Benfica − loan; Mike Williamson from Watford − £1m; Quincy Owusu-Abeyie from Spartak Moscow − loan.

Stoke City
Ins: Ben Marshall from Crewe − £650,000; Matthew Lund from Crewe − £500,000; Dean Whitehead from Sunderland − £3m; Robert Huth from Middlesbrough − £5m; Tuncay Sanli from Middlesbrough − £5m; Diego Arismendi from Club Nacional − £2.6m; Danny Collins from Sunderland − £2.75m; Asmir Begovic from Portsmouth − £3.25m.

Sunderland
Ins: Fraizer Campbell from Manchester United − £3.5m; Paulo da Silva from Toluca − £4m; Lorik Cana from Marseille − £5m; Darren Bent from Tottenham − £10m; Lee Cattermole from Wigan − £8m; John Mensah from Lyon − loan; Michael Turner from Hull − £9m; Matthew Kilgallon from Sheffield Utd − £2m; Benjani from Sunderland − loan; Alan Hutton from Tottenham − loan.

Tottenham Hotspur
Ins: Kyle Naughton from Sheffield United − £5m; Kyle Walker from Sheffield United − loan; Peter Crouch from Portsmouth − £10m; Sebastien Bassong from Newcastle − £8m; Niko Kranjcar from Portsmouth − £2m; Jimmy Walker from West Ham − free; Eidur Gudjohnsen from Monaco − loan; Younes Kaboul from Portsmouth − £2m.

West Ham United
Ins: Luis Jimenez from Inter − loan; Peter Kurucz from Ujpest − loan; Frank Nouble from Chelsea − free; Andrea Zola − unattached; Fabio Daprela from Grasshopper − £850,000; Radoslav Kovac from Spartak Moscow − £3m; Alessandro Diamanti from Livorno − £5.5m; Manuel da Costa from Fiorentina 'in exchange' for Savio Nsereko; Benni McCarthy from Blackburn − £1.5m; Mido from Middlesbrough − loan; Ilan from St Etienne − loan.

Wigan Athletic
Ins: Jordi Gomez from Espanyol − £1.7m; Hendry Thomas from Deportivo Olimpia − £3m; Jason Scotland from Swansea − £2m; James McCarthy from Hamilton − £3m; Scott Sinclair from Chelsea − loan; Antonio Amaya from Rayo Vallecano − £3m; Gary Caldwell from Celtic − £1.5m; Vladimir Stojkovic from Sporting Lisbon − loan; Steven Gohourigan from B. Moenchengladbach − loan; Marco Ruben from Villarreal − £1.2m; Josh Payne from West Ham − loan; Victor Moses from Crystal Palace − £2.5m; Marcelo Moreno from Shakhtar Donetsk − loan.

Wolves
Ins: Marcus Hahnemann from Reading − free; Nenad Milijas from Red Star − £2m; Andrew Surman from Southampton − £1.2m; Kevin Doyle fom Reading − £6.5m; Greg Halford from Sunderland − £1.4m; Ronald Zubar from Marseille − £1.8m; Stefan Maierhofer from Rapid Vienna − £1.8m; Segundo Castillo from Red Star − loan.