Man. City top transfer chart

Manchester City, who forked out an unofficial sum of £127 million in the two transfer windows of August and January, finished top of the spending chart for season 2008-09 in the English Premiership.

Last season, Tottenham were the biggest spenders in English football with a total outlay of £65.6 million. The Spurs, who embarked on a flurry of transfer deals after replacing Spanish coach Juande Ramos with Harry Redknapp in the opening months of the season, earned £76m from outgoing transfers.

This season, Tottenham have poured £112.1m into the transfer market, just under £15 million less than the amount spent by the Abu-Dhabi bankrolled Manchester City who are now widely considered as the richest club in the world.

Not so long ago, these astronomical figures in the transfer market were only associated with Chelsea but the Blues only spent a 'modest' £25.2 million this term.

Most of the clubs have gone beyond their usual quota, however.

If you look at newcomers Hull City, they broke the club transfer record after spending £9.3 million overall even though the Tigers are last in the spenders' chart.

Seven clubs in the top ten from the previous spenders' list remained in the top half of the classification. These are Tottenham, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Sunderland and Portsmouth.

2008-09 signings

Arsenal
Ins: Ramsey from Cardiff − £5m; Nasri from Marseille − £13m; Bischoff from Werder Bremen − £2.5m; Silvestre from Manchester United − £2m; Arshavin from Zenit − £15m.

Aston Villa
Ins: Davies from West Brom (after loan) − £3.5m; Sidwell from Chelsea − £5m; Guzan from Chivas US − £2m; Friedel from Blackburn − £2.5m; Shorey from Reading − £3.5m; Young from Middlesbrough − £6m; Cuellar from Rangers − £7.8m; Milner from Newcastle − £10m; Heskey from Wigan £3.5m.

Blackburn Rovers
Ins: Fowler from Cardiff − free; Robinson from Tottenham − £3.5m; Villanueva from Auxas Italiano − loan; Simpson from Manchester United − loan; Santa Cruz from Cerro Porteno − £750,000; Grella from Torino − £4m; Andrews from MK Dons − £1m; Bunn from Northampton − £350,000; Givet from Marseille − loan; Diouf from Sunderland £2m.

Bolton Wanderers
Ins: Elmander from Toulouse − £9m; Muamba from Birmingham − £5m; Riga from Levante − £500,000; Shittu from Watford − £2m; Smolarek from Racing Santander − loan; Puygrenier from Zenit − loan; Davies from Wolves − £2.7m; Makukula from Benfica − loan.

Chelsea
Ins: Bosingwa from Porto − £16.2m; Deco from Barcelona − £8m; Paim from Sporting Lisbon − loan; Mineiro from Hertha Berlin − free; Tore from Bayer Leverkusen − £1m; Quaresma from Inter − loan.

Everton
Ins: Pienaar from Bor. Dortmund − £2m (after loan); Jacobsen from Nuremberg − free; Castillo from Red Star − loan; Fellaini from Standard Liege − £15m; Nash from Wigan − £500,000; Saha from Manchester United − free; Jo from Manchester City − loan.

Fulham
Ins: Schwarzer from Middlesbrough − free; Gera from West Brom − free; Stockdale from Darlington − £650,000; Teymourian from Bolton − free; Kallio from Young Boys (after loan) − £850,000; Zamora from West Ham − £4m; Pantsil from West Ham − £2.3m; Stoor from Rosenborg − £3m; Johnson from Everton − £10.5m; Zuberbuhler from Neuchatel Xamax − £125,000; Etuhu from Sunderland − £500,000; Gray from Coventry − loan; Dacourt from Inter − loan.

Hull
Ins: Geovanni from Manchester City − free; Mendy from Paris SG − free; Halmosi from Plymouth − £2m; Boateng from Middlesbrough − £1m; Warner from Fulham − free; Fagan from Derby − £750,000; Gardner from Tottenham − £2.5m; Oxley from Rotherham − £150,000; King from Wigan − loan; Cousin from Rangers − £650,000; Giannakopoulos from Bolton − free; Manucho from Man. United − loan; Bullard from Fulham − £5m; Zayatte signs permanently from Young Boys − £2.5m.

Liverpool
Ins: Degen (Switzerland) from Bor. Dortmund − free; Saric from Herforlge − £900,000; Poloskei from MTK Hungaria − loan; Dossena from Udinese − £7m; Cavalieri from Atletico Mineiro − £3m; Veijl from AZ Alkmaar − £300,000; Mendy from Murcia − free; Ngog from Paris SG − £1.5m; Keane from Tottenham − £20.3m; Riera from Espanyol − £8m; Flora from Botafogo − free; Palsson from Aarhus − £500,000.

Manchester City
Ins: Jo (Joao Alves de Assis Silva) from CSKA Moscow − £18m; Tal Ben Haim from Chelsea − £5m; Kompany from Hamburg − £6m; Robinho from Real Madrid − £32.5m; Zabaleta from Espanyol − £6.5m; Wright-Phillips from Chelsea - £9m; Berti (Brazil) from Nuremberg − £2m; Bridge from Chelsea − £10m; De Jong from Hamburg − £18m; Bellamy from West Ham − £14m; Given from Newcastle − £6m.

Manchester United
Ins: Petrucci from Roma − £200,000; Berbatov from Tottenham − £30.75m; Tosic from P. Belgrade − £9.3m; Ljacic from Partizan − £7m; De Laet from Stoke - £500.000.

Middlesbrough
Ins: Emnes from Sparta Rotterdam − £3.2m; Digard from Paris SG − £4m; Hoyte from Arsenal − £3m; King from Wigan − loan.

Newcastle United
Ins: Gutierrez from Real Mallorca − £10m; Guthrie from Liverpool − £2.5m; Soderberg from BK Haken − £200,000; Zamblera from Atalanta − £250,000; Ngo Baheng from Le Havre − £300,000; Tozer from Swindon − £400,000; Kadar from Zalaegersgegi − £900,000; Bassong from FC Metz − £1.4m; Coloccini from Deportivo − £10.3m; Xisco from Deportivo − £5.7m; Gonzalez from Valencia − loan; Lovenkrands from Schalke − loan; Nolan from Bolton − £4m; Taylor from Wigan − £1m.

Portsmouth
Ins: Little from Reading − free; Sahar from Chelsea − loan; Crouch from Liverpool − £11m; Koroma from Banjul Hawks − £400,000; Kaboul from Tottenham − £6m; Thomas from Charlton − £3m; Traore from Arsenal − loan; Belhadj from Lens − £4.4m; Mullins from West Ham − £3.5m; Pele from Porto − loan; Pennant from Liverpool − loan; Basinas from AEK Athens − £500,000 Gekas from Leverkusen − loan.

Stoke City
Ins: Austin from Portmore United − £1.2m; Kitson from Reading − £5.5m; Olofinjana from Wolves − £3m; Sorensen from Aston Villa − free; Faye from Charlton − £2.5m; Davies from Southampton − £1.2m; Sonko from Reading − £2.5m; Soares from Crystal Palace − £2m; Tonge from Sheffield United − £2m; Higginbotham from Sunderland − £3; Etherington from West Ham −£2m; Beattie from Sheffield United − £3.5m; Camara from Stoke − loan.

Sunderland
Ins: Tainio from Tottenham − £3.5m; Colgan from Ipswich − free; Meyler from Cork − £340,000; Diouf from Bolton − £2.5m; Chimbonda from Tottenham − £4m; Malbranque from Tottenham − £3.5m; Cisse from Marseille − loan; Healy from Fulham − £2m; Ferdinand from West Ham − £8m; McCartney from West Ham − £6m; Davenport from West Ham − loan.

Tottenham Hotspur
Ins: Modric from Dinamo Zagreb − £16.5m; Dos Santos from Barcelona − £4.7m; Mpoku from Standard Liege − £200,000; Bostock from Crystal Palace − £700,000; Bentley from Blackburn − £15m; Gomes from PSV Eindhoven − £7.5m; Sanchez from Real Zaragoza − loan; Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow − £14m; Corluka from Manchester City − £8.5m; Defoe from Portsmouth − £15m; Cudicini from Chelsea − free; Palacios from Wigan − £12m; Chimbonda from Sunderland − £3m; Keane from Liverpool − £15m.

West Bromwich Albion
Ins: Bednar from Hearts − £2.5m (after loan); Do-heon Kim from Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma − £550,000 (after loan); Moore from Aston Villa − £3m; Zuiverloon from Heerenveen − £3.2m; Dorrans from Livingston − £100,000; Cech from Porto − £1.4m; Carson from Liverpool − £4m; Bougherra from Charlton − £2m; Meite from Bolton − £2m; Valero from Real Mallorca − £4.7m; Donk from AZ Alkmaar − loan; Olsson from NEC Nijmegen − £800,000; Fortune from Nancy − loan; Menseguez from San Lorenzo − loan; Mulumbu from Paris SG − loan.

West Ham United
Ins: Orn Eyjolfsson from HK Kopavogur − free; Behrami from Lazio − £5m; Lastuvka from Shakhtar Donetsk − loan; Ilunga from Toulouse − loan; Di Michele from Torino − loan; Lopez from River Plate − free; Tristan from Livorno − free; Nsereko from Brescia − £8m; Kovac from Spartak Moscow − loan.

Wigan Athletic
Ins: de Ridder from Birmingham − free; Kapo from Birmingham − £2.5m; Zaki from El Zamalek − loan; Cattermole from Middlesbrough − £3.5m; Rodallega from Nexaca − £4.5m; Watson from C. Palace − £2m; Mido from Middlesbrough − loan; N'Zogbia from Newcastle − £6m.