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Liverpool and Manchester United spent a combined total of over £27 million on agents’ fees in the past year, figures released by the Premier League confirm.
Manchester United (£13.9m), Manchester City (£12.4m), Chelsea (£12m) and Arsenal (£11.9m) were the other clubs to exceed £10m expenditure.
The Premier League and Football League totals were calculated in the period from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015.
Liverpool spent the most of any club on agents.
These fees, and player salaries, will probably rise again next year, as Premier League teams’ coffers swell with the first payments from a record 5.1 billion-pound domestic broadcast deal that lasts through the 2018-19 season.
This money is usually spent in a player purchase but can also be handed over when a player signs a new contract extension.
The biggest payers in the second tier were Cardiff (£2.8m), Fulham (£2.7m), QPR and Reading (both £2.3m).
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Further down the pyramid, League One club Bury and League Two’s Accrington Stanley Hartlepool did not pay anything at all in to agents.
