With the 2022/23 Premier League season just over a fortnight away from kicking off the summer transfer window continues to be a busy one for clubs across English football’s top flight.
Leeds United have sold star players Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips but have also been investing significant sums in players like Brenden Aaronson and Luis Sinisterra.
Adding strength and depth to their first team squad is so crucial that sometimes Premier League clubs can be happy to pay over the player’s market value in order to secure their signature.
That certain appears to be the case for a number of the most high profile moves in this window with Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Liverpool amongst the sides over paying for talents.
However, there are a few deals that buck that trend and Manchester City’s signing of Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland looks to have come at a significant discount compared to what they could have paid.
Using figures from football statistic site Transfermarkt, we have looked at the transfer fees paid in some of the biggest deals of the summer involving Premier League clubs and compared them to the player’s market value at the time.
Here are ten of the most prominent deals this summer showing how much was paid for the player and how it compares to their valuation:
7. Darwin Nunez (-£18m)
Liverpool needed a star striker of their own to rival Man City’s capture of Erling Haaland and paid a fee of £67.5m for Darwin Nunez which was already £18m over the Benfica forward’s £49.5m valuation | Liverpool FC via Getty Images
8. Lisandro Martinez (-£22.5m)
Manchester United’s summer business is starting to pick up speed but they had to overpay by quite a bit to land defender Lisandro Martinez with a fee of £51.5m way above his £29m valuation | Getty Images
9. Erling Haaland (+£81 million)
Not only did Manchester City capture one of the best strikers in the world, they also did it for a bargain £54m. The release clause which allowed him to leave Dortmund saw the German side robbed blind compared to his whopping £135m valuation | Getty Images
10. Raphinha (+£11.5 million)
Although it will have hurt Leeds to lose their star attacker the Whites appear to have bagged themselves a good deal with Barcelona paying £52m compared to his £40.5m valuation | Getty Images