{"id":393477,"date":"2025-09-03T02:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393477\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:51:13","slug":"leeds-uniteds-net-spend-compared-to-premier-league-rivals-its-even-above-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393477\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United’s net spend compared to Premier League rivals,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0even\u00a0above Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many Leeds United fans are questioning why the club did not spend more compared to Sunderland and Burnley during the summer window, especially having tabled a \u00a330m bid for Igor Paixao.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds crossed the \u00a3100m border<\/a> when it comes to incoming signings. That is despite two of the 10 new arrivals joining the club on a free transfer, in new striker duo Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Lukas Nmecha.<\/p>\n

Anton Stach proved to be the most expensive arrival of the summer. Leeds spent \u00a319.9m to land Stach<\/a> from Hoffenheim, while Noah Okafor was an \u00a318m purchase and Lucas Perri has set Leeds back \u00a315.6m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Signing Harry Wilson on the final day of the window is likely to have taken spending north of \u00a3110m. But according to Sky Sports<\/a>, Leeds<\/a> ended the season with a net spend of \u00a3103.1m following their 10 arrivals.<\/p>\n

\"FulhamPhoto by Justin Setterfield\/Getty ImagesHow Leeds\u2019 net spend compares to Premier League rivals<\/p>\n

Sky Sports\u2019 reporting might not be wholly accurate, with Sam Greenwood\u2019s \u00a33.5m move to Polish side Pogon<\/a> not considered. Rasmus Kristensen\u2019s \u00a37.7m move to Frankfurt is also on this year\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

LeedsUnited.News<\/strong> calculates Leeds\u2019 spend at \u00a3108.5m. However, Sky Sports claims Leeds\u2019 net spend is a total of \u00a3103.1, which is the Premier League\u2019s seventh-highest, way above promotion rivals Burnley.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Leeds\u2019 net spend according to the Sky Sports report, is even above the likes of Man City and Newcastle. Sunderland and Burnley have been able to spend more thanks to making big-money sales.<\/p>\n

Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United lead the way in terms of net spend this summer, while Spurs were in fourth after winning the Europa League. Next came Sunderland and Everton, and then Leeds.<\/p>\n

\"AntonPhoto by Pat Scaasi\/MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty Images <\/p>\n

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What did Leeds get wrong in the transfer window this summer\u2026<\/p>\n

Ultimately, they left things too late and it culminated in Wilson falling through at the final hurdle. Leeds may feel they did everything they could have done to get Wilson, but it should have been done earlier.<\/p>\n

The other issue is that given Leeds\u2019 were the Premier League\u2019s lowest club in terms of incoming fees from player sales, The Whites may have benefitted from a sale. That is despite 13 players leaving the club.<\/p>\n\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nType of exit<\/strong><\/td>\nClub joined<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSam Greenwood<\/td>\nSale<\/td>\nPogon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJunior Firpo<\/td>\nFree transfer<\/td>\nReal Betis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJosuha Guilavogui<\/td>\nFree transfer<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDarko Gyabi<\/td>\nFree transfer<\/td>\nHull City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPatrick Bamford<\/td>\nFree transfer<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJoe Gelhardt<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\nHull City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCharlie Crew<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\nDoncaster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMax Wober<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\nWerder Bremen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nIsaac Schmidt<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\nWerder Bremen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLargie Ramazani<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\nValencia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMateo Joseph<\/td>\nLoan<\/td>\nMallorca<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJoe Rothwell<\/td>\nReturn from loan<\/td>\nReturned to Bournemouth
(Now at Rangers)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nManor Solomon<\/td>\nReturn from loan<\/td>\nReturned to Tottenham
(Now at Villarreal)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Perhaps, Leeds would have been best selling a player that would have given the club more wriggle room in terms of PSR. Willy Gnonto or Pascal Struijk were identified as possible sales<\/a> earlier in the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Leeds United fans are questioning why the club did not spend more compared to Sunderland and Burnley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-393477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-transfer-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115138100199370396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}