Elliot Anderson's £116m (€135m) arrival from Nottingham Forest on 23 July took confirmed summer spending past £100m on its own, within roughly £153m of completed deals by 31 July.
Confirmed spending is the sum of fees for completed permanent transfers as reported by the Sky Sports Transfer Centre; add-ons and reported-but-unconfirmed deals are excluded.
We looked at English clubs that replaced a manager who had been in charge for nine years or more. We found five, and four of the new managers were gone within two seasons. The one who lasted longer, Bob Paisley at Liverpool, had been the assistant of the man he replaced.