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REVEALED: Premier League clubs were responsible for more than a THIRD of the total spend on international transfers in 2022, say FIFA... after they splashed £1.78bn on players and were responsible for six of the 10 biggest deals

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The Premier League's dominance of the international transfer market has been highlighted again in a new FIFA report.

The world governing body's Global Transfer Report for 2022 found English clubs spent just under 2.2 billion US dollars (£1.78bn) on international deals in the January and summer windows last year, with Italian clubs a distant second with 673.3m US dollars (£543.6m) spent.

England's total spending accounted for just over a third of the global total for international deals, which FIFA put at 6.5bn US dollars (£5.25bn). This was an increase of 33.5 per cent compared to 2021 but still lower than the record mark of 7.