Even without astronomical sums, Newcastle dominated the transfer market in January. The biggest spenders were again in the Premier League

The winter transfer window in most competitions ended at the stroke of midnight. As expected, Newcastle United spent the most of all clubs across the world, although they did not pay exorbitant amounts for their signings. Which clubs finished in the top five?

Newcastle are doing badly in the Premier League. So when it was taken over by rich owners, many expected big signings for even bigger money in the January transfer window. It just didn’t quite happen.

The Magpies may have spent the most of any club across world football, but their spending has stalled at €87 million according to Sportkeeda, which is certainly not as much as expected. In addition, several players have come in for that amount.

Players like Bruno Guimaraes, Chris Wood, Kieran Trippier and Dan Burn have strengthened the Northern English team. Matt Targett arrived on loan.

Juventus (82 million euros) were right behind Newcastle, but they did not organize a big shopping spree. The amount spent was greatly influenced by the arrival of Dusan Vlahovic, who came for 70 million euros, making him the most expensive player of the entire transfer window.

The third highest spending club is Barcelona (55 million euros), but they only spent on one player. It bought Ferran Torres from Manchester City. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang arrived for free, Adama Traore came on loan.

The fourth and fifth places belong to Liverpool. The Reds spent 45 million euros, Everton 38 million euros. Liverpool brought Luis Diaz from Porto, the Toffees brought Nathan Patterson and Vitaliy Mykolenko on permanent transfer, other interesting signings were acquired on loan.

The biggest spenders in the Premier League

Quite unsurprisingly, the Premier League clubs spent the most of all, with their purchases covering almost 50% of the January transfer spending from all the top five European competitions.

English clubs spent almost €354 million in all. In the history of January transfer windows in the Premier League, only once has more money been spent, and that was in 2018, when over €515 million was spent on transfers.

Then, on the last day of this transfer window alone, £10 million more was spent in the Premier League than in the whole of last winter transfer window.

Interestingly, more than half of the money from English clubs was spent by the last five teams in the Premier League table.

Source: Sportskeeda, BBC, Transfermarkt