Manchester City completed the £65m signing of Iliman Ndiaye from Everton before the deadline, a fee reported by both Sky Sports and ESPN (2 September 2026).
Resolves YES on a completed permanent transfer between two Premier League clubs, announced by the buying club by 01:00 BST on 2 September 2026, with a fee of £40m or more reported by at least two of Sky Sports, ESPN and the Premier League. Undisclosed fees do not count.
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.