PL clubs paid record 115 mln pounds to agents in 12 months ending Sep 2014

The Premier League clubs have reportedly paid a record 115 million pounds to agents in the 12 months to the end of September 2014 with Chelsea being the league's top spenders on 16.8 million pounds.

Premier League champions Manchester City paid 12.8 million pounds to agents, 1.5 million pounds less than runners-up Liverpool. Manchester United spent just short of 8 million pounds, almost double their previous year's spending with agents of 4.3 million pounds, The BBC reported.

Louis van Gaal's side spent the most on transfer fees by any English club in any transfer window this summer. Their summer spending included the record purchase of Argentine midfielder Angel Di Maria.

The record spend on transfer and agents' fees in 2014 comes after the clubs pocketed their first season's payment of vastly increased TV money.

Last year was the start of a three-year domestic TV deal worth 3.018 billion pounds, a 70 percent increase on the old deal.

Chelsea have now led the way in the agents' fee spending for the second consecutive season.

Newly-promoted Burnley and Leicester spent the least amount on agents' fees, with the Clarets the only team to spend less than a million pounds in the annual results.

Arsenal's 4.2 million pounds figure is less than that spent by Sunderland, West Ham United and Everton, despite Arsene Wenger's signings of Alexis Sanchez and Danny Welbeck in the summer.

Overall the league spent almost 19 million pounds more on agents' fees than the previous year, the report added.