• Champions Manchester City biggest spenders at £10.54m
• Liverpool second with £8.6m, QPR spent £6.82m
Bottom-of-the-table Queens Park Rangers paid the third-highest amount to agents over the past year, their figure of £6,818,688 topped by only the champions Manchester City and Liverpool, the Premier League revealed on Friday.
City were the biggest spenders on £10,537,982 – up from £9,663,700 the previous year – with Liverpool second having shelled out £8,600,444, an increase from £7,000,242.99. But it was QPR – who brought in a number of high-profile signings over the summer including Júlio César, Park Ji-sung, José Bosingwa and Esteban Granero – whose payments stood out, with their figure having almost trebled from £2,499,214 in 2010-11.
Tottenham (£6,595,905) were fourth on the list, followed by the Champions League winners Chelsea (£6,490,382), Arsenal (£5,580,873) and West Ham (£4,436,992). Manchester United's figure dropped to £3,681,580 from £4,457,103.
Promoted Southampton had the lowest figure (£646,106), with Swansea – last year's lowest spenders – second-bottom of the list despite their payments having risen from £248,633 to £1,100,845.
The overall amount spent by the 20 clubs in this season's Premier League was £77,003,130 (806 transactions), compared with £71,868,749.94 (765 transactions) for the previous 12 months.
The latest figures cover the period from 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012, which spans two transfer windows. The amounts include payments made by clubs on behalf of players.
Arsenal £5,580,873; Aston Villa £2,730,539; Chelsea £6,490,382; Everton £3,092,891; Fulham £2,581,208; Liverpool £8,600,444; Manchester City £10,537,982; Manchester United £3,681,580; Newcastle United £3,485,503; Norwich City £1,248,725; Queens Park Rangers £6,818,688; Reading £2,167,833; Southampton £646,106; Stoke City £1,717,266; Sunderland £2,173,762; Swansea City £1,100,845; Tottenham Hotspur £6,595,905; West Bromwich Albion £1,341,301; West Ham United £4,436,992; Wigan Athletic £1,974,305. Total £77,003,130
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