Premier League cumulative transfer fees top 10

Thirteen clubs broke their transfer records, more than £1billion was invested in the search for the perfect formula and the sight of seven zeros on a price tag became the norm.

But at the end of a crazy summer of spending, which of the Premier League's superstars can claim to be worth the most?
Using cumulative transfer fees - the total amount paid for footballers over the course of their careers - Sportsmail found out.

Our top 10 have had a whopping £802.5million spent on them - roughly twice the GDP of Tonga - by clubs all over the world.

The chart includes two Spaniards, two Brazilians, a Swede, a Frenchman, two Belgians, a German and a Chilean, with three of the superstars having fetched in excess of £100m in cumulative fees.

From 10 to 1, here are the Premier League's most expensive players...

10) Mesut Ozil (Arsenal) - £58.7million