The top six clubs are shedding players. Here’s the chart of who has gone

By Tony Attwood

I decided to put in this chart of players in last season’s top six clubs who are already noted as leaving, following some blog comments to the effect that the release of half a dozen players by Arsenal for the grand sum of £3.5m showed how disorganised we are in our long term planning So here is the comparative chart of the players who thus far have been officially signified as leaving their clubs thus far.

As in previous summers I’ll try and keep this up to date in terms of future departures, and when players start arriving in sufficient numbers to make it interesting, do a comparative chart for signings.  So far there are only three signings to last season’s top six  – Sepp van den Berg to Liverpool, Daniel James to Manchester United, and Kion Etete to Tottenham.

Here then are the departures.  The fees are those reported by the Guardian newspaper.  Reports elsewhere will inevitably be different.

Arsenal: six players: £3.5m

Liverpool, three players, £5m

Manchester City, two players, no income