LONDON :Alexander Isak's British record 125 million pounds ($169 million) move from Newcastle United to Liverpool on Monday completed an eye-watering summer of English Premier League spending.

The Swedish striker's move, along with several other big-money deadline day deals such as Newcastle's 55 million pounds swoop for Brentford striker Yoane Wissa meant the cumulative spend for the world's richest soccer league during the transfer window reached three billion pounds for the first time.

Gross spending for the Premier League this season is already the highest ever, exceeding the 2.7 billion pounds spent in the 2022-23 season, and the January window is still to come.

The 20 clubs have spent 650 million pounds more in this window than the previous highest summer spend in 2023.

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