Paul MacDonald
FootballTransfers.com

Premier
League club spending in the January 2025 window sits at £290m, significantly up
on the £90m spent last winter.

Manchester City’s spending
which makes up £130m (45%) of that total.

In
Europe, the scene has been mixed and, as expected, well behind the Premier League
for spending power.

Indeed La Liga has been quiet to the point of no business at
all, with just £10m being spent. And elsewhere any spending that took place was
largely to make direct replacements for players that had been sold.

There are
numerous examples of this; Frankfurt replaced Man City-bound Omar Marmoush with
Elye Wahi from Marseille, who then raided Stade Rennais for Amine Gouiri.
Rennes then went for Seko Fofana from Al Nassr, and Kyogo from Celtic. And then
Celtic took Jota and on it goes…

Even
at the steep end of the market, PSG’s gigantic deal for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia,
worth up to £62m, was offset by Xavi Simons becoming RB Leipzig’s record
signing in a £42m deal.

And the Saudi Pro League have only managed to get two
huge deals over the line – Duran from Villa and
Porto’s Galeno, who joined Al-Ahli in a £42m deal – despite threatening more.

But, as usual, the strength of the summer market continues to hugely outweigh
the winter market; of the £2.3bn spent between summer and winter by
Premier League clubs so far, just 12.6% of it has come from January deals.