Arsenal aren’t known as big spenders, something that is evident when you see their 51 most expensive players.
Perhaps the first thing that jumps out at you is how the largest fees have all come in recent years which, I guess isn’t much of a surprise. Still, it’s glaring.
12 of the top 14 are still at Arsenal and the other two are Alexis Sanchez and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
15 of the top 50 still play for the club and if you count working for the club that rises to 20 with Mikel Arteta, Edu, Per Mertesacker and Ambassadors, Robert Pires and Lauren all on the list.
Arsenal have also only spent over £20m 13 times.
To put that in context, Chelsea have spent over £20m 36 times, Manchester City 35, Manchester United 31, Liverpool 21 and Spurs 13 also.
The team we’ve given the most money to is Lille, handing over a total of £106m for Gervinho, Nicolas Pepe and Gabriel.
They’re also one of three clubs we’ve bought three players from in our top 50. The others are Borussia Dortmund and Southampton.
We’ve bought two from the top 50 from the same club five times – Chelsea, Everton, Malaga, Manchester United and Marseille.
Arsenal’s 50 most expensive signings
David Luiz £7.83m
from Chelsea
Edu £7.88m
from Corinthians
Richard Wright £8.10m
from Ipswich
Bacary Sagna £8.10m
from Auxerre
Robert Pires £8.82m
from Marseille
Nacho Monreal £9m
from Malaga
Emmanuel Adebayor £9m
from Monaco
Tomas Rosicky £9m
from Borussia Dortmund
Theo Walcott £9.45m
from Southampton
Lauren £9.63m
from Mallorca
Dennis Bergkamp £10.13m
from Inter Milan
Per Mertesacker £10.17m
from Werder Bremen
Thomas Vermaelen £10.8m
from Ajax
Olivier Giroud £10.8m
from Montpellier
Mikel Arteta £10.8m
from Everton
Gervinho £10.8m
from Lille
Mohamed Elneny £11.25m
from Basel
Laurent Koscielny £11.25m
from Lorient
Giovanni van Bronckhorst £12.15m
from Rangers
Eduardo £12.15m
from Dinamo Zagreb
Alex Oxalde-Chamberlain £12.42m
from Southampton
Petr Cech £12.6m
from Chelsea
Gabriel Paulista £12.6m
from Villarreal
Aleksandr Hleb £13.5m
from Stuttgart
Mathieu Debuchy £13.5m
from Newcastle
Lukas Podolski £13.5m
from FC Koln
Francis Jeffers £13.77m
from Everton
Samir Nasri £14.4m
from Marseille
Sokratis £14.4m
from Borussia Dortmund
Thierry Henry £14.49m
from Juventus
Andrey Arshavin £14.85m
from Zenit St. Petersburg
Sylvain Wiltord £15.75m
from Bordeuax
Santi Cazorla £17.1m
from Malaga
Jose Antonio Reyes £18m
from Sevilla
Lucas Perez £18m
from Deportivo La Coruna
Danny Welbeck £18m
from Manchester United
Calum Chambers £18.21m
from Southampton
Bernd Leno £22.5m
from Bayer Leverkusen
Gabriel Magalhaes £23.4m
from Lille
Kieran Tierney £24.3m
from Celtic
Lucas Torreira £25.79m
from Sampdoria
William Saliba £25.79m
from Saint-Etienne
Henrikh Mkhitaryan £30.6m
from Manchester United
Shkodran Mustafi £36.9m
from Valencia
Alexis Sanchez £38.25m
from Barcelona
Granit Xhaka £40.5m
from Borussia Monchengladbach
Mesut Ozil £42.3m
from Real Madrid
Thomas Partey £45m
Alexandre Lacazette £47.7m
from Lyon
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang £57.38m
from Borussia Dortmund
Nicolas Pepe £72m
from Lille