{"id":18295,"date":"2026-08-31T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spending-five-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:44:37","slug":"spending-five-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/spending-five-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Divisional spending hits a five-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight clubs have already passed last season\u2019s total, and the window has three weeks left. Divisional spending is at a five-year high, and the five-year low was two summers ago.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"where-the-money-went\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where the money went<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forwards, mostly. Six of the ten largest fees are for players who play in the front three, and four of those are under twenty-three.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"anps-statband wp-block-sportpulse-stat-band\"><div class=\"anps-sechead\"><p class=\"anps-sechead__kicker\">\/\/ The window in numbers<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-statband__grid anps-statband__grid--inline\" style=\"--anps-statband-cols:3\"><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">\u00a31.2bn<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Gross spend<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">\u00a3640m<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Net spend<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">23.4<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Average age, top ten fees<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"who-is-selling\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is selling<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same clubs as always. Three of the division\u2019s selling clubs have now recouped their entire academy budget for the decade from four players.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/stadiumCrowd.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rivermouth\u2019s stadium: their sale of Bekele funds the new stand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight clubs have already passed last season&#8217;s total, and the window has three weeks left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":0,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,65],"tags":[142,200,255],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-18295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer","category-transfers","tag-finance","tag-premier-division","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=18295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}