All the Key Transfer Windows Facts and Stats as Deadline Day Spend Drops by £100m

Premier League spending in January fell for the first time since 2012 as a quiet month culminated with a fairly uneventful deadline day. Twelve transfers on

Premier League spending in January fell for the first time since 2012 as a quiet month culminated with a fairly uneventful deadline day.

Twelve transfers on Thursday came to a total of £50m, with Miguel Almiron's record-breaking move to Newcastle and Jonny's permanent transfer to Wolves accounting for more than half that figure.

We are delighted to announce the signing of forward Miguel Almirón from @ATLUTD.

The 24-year-old has penned a five-and-a-half-year deal which will keep him at St. James' Park until June 2024.

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— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) January 31, 2019

According to figures from the Sports Business Group at Deloitte (via BBC Sport), Premier League clubs spent just £180m in January, less than half what they forked out 12 months ago.

On that occasion, £430m was spent throughout the month, with £150m changing hands on deadline day alone.

This drop in spending mirrors last summer, which saw the first dip in spending since 2010.

📆 Every Premier League transfer completed in January 2019.

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— 90min (@90min_Football) February 1, 2019

• Chelsea's signing of Christian Pulisic from Borussia Dortmund was by far the most expensive of the month, with his £58m fee being almost three times that which Newcastle paid for Miguel Almiron (the second most expensive deal).

• The signing of Pulisic, coupled with Liverpool's £19m sale of Dominic Solanke to Bournemouth, means that Chelsea now have the highest net spend in the Premier League this season (£145m to Liverpool's £136m).

• The signings of Solanke from Liverpool and Chris Mepham from Brentford for a combined £31m makes Bournemouth the second-highest January spenders.

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• Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, Southampton and Tottenham were the five Premier League teams who did not make any signings during January.
  

• A further five teams - Arsenal, Burnley, Leicester, Southampton and West Ham - did not spend any money, only making loans and free signings.

• After becoming the first Premier League team in the transfer window era to make no summer signings, Tottenham's lack of business in January means that it is now more than a year since their last addition.

• Newcastle finally broke their transfer record after 14 years with the £20m purchase of Almiron. The longest-standing transfer record in the Premier League now belongs to Manchester United, who spent £89m on Paul Pogba in 2016.

• Apart from Newcastle, Cardiff was the only other Premier League side to break their transfer record in January.

• Three of the seven most expensive signings were immediately loaned back to their previous club - Pulisic, Alexis Mac Allister (Argentinos Juniors to Brighton) and Ante Palaversa (Hajduk Split to Manchester City).

• Despite the relatively quiet transfer window, the Premier League was still the highest-spending league in Europe.
  

• The net spend across both transfer windows comes to £1.4bn, the second highest total for a Premier League season after the £1.9bn spent in 2017/18.

• The Premier League remains the biggest importer of overseas talent, with 74% of signings made over the last two transfer windows coming from abroad.