Premier League transfer talking points: three things we learned from the data | Premier League

Premier League clubs have invested more than £3.4bn in players this summer, an increase of 11.9% on last year. There are three aspects of this enormous spending worthy of closer scrutiny.

Priorities on player age have changed

Premier League clubs are spending less on players in the peak 24-27 age band even though those players are increasingly the core of their selections.

As recently as…