Top ten biggest spending bigs clubs in the Premier League: are Man City or Chelsea number one?

2. Chelsea
Transfer spend: £423.9m
Transfer fees received: £154m
Net: £269m

Boss Jose Mourinho has insisted that Chelsea are no playing fair, pointing to the sales of Juan Mata and Kevin de Bruyne in January as evidence of a new found respect for financial fair play at Stamford Bridge. But that doesn’t change the fact that Chelsea have a net spend of nearly double Manchester United’s during the past five years – which only accounts for half of Roman Abramovich’s tenure. With a top striker still need to complete the Portuguese’s squad, expect more big spending by the Blues this summer.