![]() Last year United’s expenditure was just under €250 million - the lion’s share of that going on three signings: Anthony, Casemiro and Lisandro Martínez. Other names being churned out of the rumour mill include Neymar, who is currently recovering from ankle surgery and may have reached the end of the line at PSG. If no agreement is reached and the Spanish keeper is free to leave, United have a number of options in mind including Borussia Dortmund’s Gregor Kobel, Valencia’s Girogi Mamardashvili, Porto’s Diogo Costa and Brentford’s David Raya. There is still a question mark over David de Gea’s future - he will be out of contract in June and negotiations with his agents continue. Manchester United will also be whipping out the cheque book to tweak their squad when the summer transfer window opens. The Magpies had a €20 million bid for teenage striker Matheus Franca dismissed by Flamengo back at the start of the year and are in a position to submit an improved offer. Eddie Howe has a transfer war chest of around £100 million to spend to keep within Financial Fair Play restrictions. ![]() Newcastle spend a similar sum, and broke the club transfer record to lure Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad for €70 million but spent carefully and wisely. The Gunners splurged €192 million on transfers last season and brought in just under €24 million in sales. Incoming players could include Declan Rice, Ilkay Gündogan, Moises Caicedo or Mason Mount. One such case is Granit Xhaka, whose contract expires in June 2024 and is already reported to have an agreement with Bayer Leverkusen. Five years later, in 2002/3, they advanced a little further, making it as far as the ill-fated and hugely unpopular second group stage.Ī number of Arsenal players will be entering the final year of their contacts and will be sold this summer to finance reinforcements as Mikel Arteta aims to tighten up some of the weaker areas of his team, particularly the midfield. Newcastle meanwhile have only made it to the Champions League group stage twice - in 1997/8 they finished third behind Dinamo Kyiv and PSV and bowed out alongside Barcelona. Arsenal make their return to European football’s top club tournament for the first time since the 2016/17 season - the most recent of 17 consecutive appearances in the competition. It is shaping up to be a busy summer for several Premier League clubs with Arsenal and Newcastle expected to beef up their squads for their return to the Champions League while others, such as Liverpool, face the task of a large-scale overhaul. Last year, the English league set a new record with over £2 billion spent on transfer and loan deals. It remains to be seen what they plan to do this summer in a bid to strengthen Pep Guardiola's title-winning squad.As always there will be two registration periods - the main summer one and a winter window. Manchester City, meanwhile, also splashed the cash last summer, signing the likes of Kalvin Phillips and Erling Haaland. The Reds spent north of £200million last summer after completing the big-money signings of the likes of Lisandro Martinez, Casemiro and Antony. This forthcoming summer's transfer window is expected to be a busy one for Manchester United, who are planning to bring in new faces, not least a striker, and offload several members of their squad. In a statement, the Premier League said: "To ensure harmonisation with the major leagues in Europe, the closing dates were set following discussions with the EFL, DFL, Serie A, LaLiga and LFP, who will all close their Summer and Winter windows on September 1 and February 1 respectively." Like in the summer, the cut-off point for deals to be completed will once again be 11pm BST. Meanwhile, the Premier League has also confirmed that the 2024 winter transfer window will open for business on Monday, January 1 and will close on Thursday, February 1. READ MORE: Pep Guardiola's stance on his City future if he wins the treble There was, of course, once a time where the summer window was open from July 1 to August 31, but the period for deals to be completed has been extended into June in recent years. ![]() The window, as has been the case in previous years, will slam shut at 11pm BST that evening, meaning clubs across England's top four tiers will have more than two months to complete their summer transfer business. Following the EFL's structure, the Premier League has also confirmed that the window will close on Friday, September 1. The announcement has come less than a week after the EFL announced that clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two will be allowed to start signing players from the same date. The Premier League has announced that the 2023 summer transfer will officially open for business on Wednesday, June 14.
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