The Championship (record signing) table includes some big names from down the years, including Emile Heskey (twice), Andy Cole and Craig Bellamy.
Watford lead the pack with a World Cup star who has just succumbed to Gareth Southgate’s England, while the teams occupying the bottom three are hardly surprising.
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1) Watford – Ismaila Sarr (Rennes, £25.7m)
The Senegal winger was unable to help his country stop England in their pursuit of World Cup glory in Qatar. But he is too good for the Championship and is one of the league’s most valuable stars.
2) Sheffield United – Rhian Brewster (Liverpool, £22.2m)
Despite being lauded as a youngster at Liverpool, Brewster’s career has not panned out as well as many hoped. Five goals in 64 Sheffield United appearances is, and this is the technical term, pretty sh*t.
3) Stoke City – Giannelli Imbula (Porto, £20.7m)
What a waste of time this was.
Signed during the post-Tony Pulis era when Stoke had Champions League winners for days, Imbula only played 28 times for the English side and had a reputation for not caring one jot about Stoke.
4) Swansea City – Andre Ayew (West Ham, £19.5m)
Time for a more successful signing as Swansea’s former Ghanaian attacker places them fourth in the table.
The brother of Crystal Palace’s Jordan Ayew made a good impression in Qatar and scored 15-plus goals in the Championship in consecutive seasons before leaving last year.
5=) Huddersfield Town – Terence Kongolo (AS Monaco, £17.1m)
Brought in during the Terriers’ debut season in the Premier League in 2018, the centre-back helped them stay up against the odds before they fell victim to second season syndrome.
An underwhelming spell at Fulham has followed and he’s now on loan in the second division in France.
5=) Sunderland – Didier Ndong (Lorient, £17.1m)
The Gabon midfielder’s time at Sunderland got off to a decent start, although they were relegated during his debut season in 2016/17.
Ndong is now an unpopular figure in the north east. He didn’t turn up for training as Sunderland prepared for life in League One and he was eventually sacked. Bad egg.
7) Burnley – Wout Weghorst (Wolfsburg, £15m)
The big f***er with perhaps the best name out of the entire Burnley alumni didn’t produce anything of note as they were relegated last season. Besiktas, to save you a Google.
8) Middlesbrough – Britt Assombalonga (Nottm Forest, £14.6m)
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