Neither leg completed: Iliman Ndiaye joined Manchester City from Everton for £65m rather than Tottenham, with Jack Grealish going to Goodison on a season-long loan instead (Sky Sports, 2 September 2026).
Resolves YES only if both clubs announce both completed permanent transfers, on tottenhamhotspur.com and evertonfc.com, by 01:00 BST on 2 September 2026. One leg completing, or either player moving elsewhere, resolves the market NO. If that source has not published in time, Sky Sports and the Premier League settle it.
In three of the four summers we checked, a league club got the top fee. We looked at the biggest fee a Premier League club paid in each summer window since 2019. We used only the four summers where a first-hand report, cited below, confirms that fee. For each, we asked one question: was the selling club also in the Premier League? We left out summers we could not check. A reader who can find a source for a missing summer can send it, and it goes in.