The Premier League’s £3.5bn transfer window smashed all records. Can the boom last?

The tone was set in the very first days of the 2026 summer transfer window Elliot Anderson’s £116million ($157m) transfer to Manchester City, a deal announced on July 2, midway through the World Cup, was just the opening salvo in a lavish Premier League window which surpassed all its predecessors in spending. Comfortably so, in the end. The £3.11bn spent last summer felt like a new frontier in the willingness of Premier League clubs to write cheques, a figure up 55 per cent on the previous year. Then along came 2026 and raised the bar again. A final gross figure…