It’s fair to say Aston Villa are have operated in a totally different transfer market to Hull this summer – they’ve spent over £250m and still made a healthy profit after the sales of Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins. Hull have shelled out over £150m on virtually an entire other team but not recouped nearly as much.

Hull arrivals: Nobel Mendy (£20m), Konstantinos Tzolakis (£20m), Lucas Herrington (£17.1m), Ilyas Ansah (£14.5m), Tim Iroegbunam (£13m), Mohamed-Ali Cho (£13m), Christos Mouzakitis (£12.9m), Brooke Norton-Cuffy (£12m), Jens Hjertø-Dahl (£10m), Sorba Thomas (£7.5m), Joe Gelhardt (£6.5m), Jack Butland (£3.5m), Lucas Gourna-Douath (£3.4m), Elliot Stroud (£3m), Robinio Vaz (loan), Hidemasa Morita (free), Matt Targett (free), Oscar Zambrano (undisc.)
Total spend: £156.4m
Transfer balance: -£141.6m

Hull (3-4-3): Tzolakis; Ajayi, Egan, Mendy; Coyle, Slater, Gourna-Douath, Giles; Belloumi, McBurnie, Stroud
Subs: Phillips, Thomas, Hjertø-Dahl, Norton-Cuffy, Herrington, Targett, Mouzakitis, Vaz, Cho

Aston Villa (4-2-3-1): Suzuki; Cash, Lindelöf, Mings, Maatsen; Kamara, Barkley; McGinn, Buendía, Hemmings; Jackson
Subs: Bizot, Ruggeri, Torres, Garnacho, Abraham, Mbaye, Bogarde, Wan-Bissaka, Alysson

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