Chelsea – 2004-05
Paulo Ferreira (Porto) – £13.2m
Mateja Kezman (PSV Eindhoven) – £5.5m
Didier Drogba (Marseille) – £24m
Tiago (Benfica) – £10m
Ricardo Carvalho (Porto) – £19.8m
Alex (PSV Eindhoven) – £5.7m
Nuno Morais (Penafiel) – free
Jiri Jarosik (CSKA Moscow) – £3m
Total: £81.2m
Chelsea – 2005-06
Asier del Horno (Athletic Bilbao) – £8m
Lassana Diarra (Le Havre) – £2m
Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City) – £24m
Michael Essien (Lyon) – £24.4m
Total: £58.4m
Chelsea – 2006-07
Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich) – free
Salomon Kalou (Feyenoord) – £3m
Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) – £30m
John Obi Mikel (Lyn Oslo) – £16m
Khalid Boulahrouz (Hamburg) – £9m
Ashley Cole (Arsenal) – £5m William Gallas
Total: £63m
Chelsea – 2007-08
Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich) – free
Tal Ben Haim (Bolton Wanderers) – free
Steve Sidwell (Reading) – free
Florent Malouda (Lyon) – £13.5m
Juliano Belletti (Barcelona) – £3.7m
Total: £17.2m
Chelsea first spell total: £219.8m
Inter Milan – 2008-09
Hernan Crespo (Chelsea) – free
Mancini (Roma) – £10.3m
Luis Jimenez (Ternana) – £4.7m
Sulley Muntari (Portsmouth) – £12.7m
Ricardo Quaresma (Porto) – £14.7m + Pele
Victor Obinna (Chievo) – free
Total: £42.4m
Inter Milan – 2009-10
Diego Milito (Genoa) – £11.6m Robert Acquafresca Riccardo Meggiorini
Thiago Motta (Genoa) – £3.6m Francesco Bozoni
Leonardo Bonucci
Kerlon (Chievo) – free
Lucio (Bayern Munich) – £6.8m
Samuel Eto’o (Barcelona) – £17.2m
Wesley Sneijder (Real Madrid) – £15.5m
Goran Pandev (Lazio) – free
McDonald Mariga (Parma) – £4.3m
Total: £59m
Inter Milan spell total: £101.4m
Real Madrid – 2010-11
Sergio Canales (Racing Santander) – £3.8m
Angel Di Maria (Benfica) – £20.9m
Pedro Leon (Getafe) – £8.4m
Sami Khedira (Stuttgart) – £10m
Ricardo Carvalho (Chelsea) – £6.7m
Mesut Ozil (Werder Bremen) – £12.5m
Total: £62.3m
Real Madrid – 2011-12
Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund) – £8.8m
Hamit Altintop (Bayern Munich) – free
Jose Callejon (Espanyol) – £4.4m
Raphael Varane (Lens) – £8.8m
Fabio Coentrao (Benfica) – £26.5m
Total: £48.5m
Real Madrid – 2012-13
Luka Modric (Tottenham) – £33m
Diego Lopez (Sevilla) – £3.2m
Total: £36.2m
Real Madrid spell total: £147m
Chelsea – 2013-14
Andre Schurrle (Bayern Leverkusen) – £18m
Marco van Ginkel (Vitesse) – £9m
Mark Schwarzer (Fulham) – free
Willian (Anzhi Makhachkala) – £30m
Samuel Eto’o (Anzhi Makhachkala) – free
Total: £57m
Chelsea – 2014-15
Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona) – £30m
Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid) – £35m
Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid) – £16m
Didier Drogba (Galatasaray) – free
Loic Remy (Queens Park Rangers) – £8m
Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina) – £27m
Total: £116m
Chelsea – 2015-16
Asmir Begovic (Stoke City) – £8m
Baba Rahman (Augsburg) – £21.7m
Pedro (Barcelona) – £21m
Kenedy (Fluminense) – £6.7m
Papy Djilobodji (Nantes) – £2.2m
Marco Amelia (free agent) – free
Total: £59.6m
Chelsea second spell total: £232.6m
Manchester United 2016-17
Eric Bailly (Villarreal) – £30m
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain) – free
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) – £26m
Paul Pogba (Juventus) – £100m
Total: £156m
Overall total: £856.8m
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