Premier League clubs paid a "record" £174M to agents during the year which included the summer '16 and Jan. '17 transfer windows, the first since the start of the league’s current £8.3B three-year TV deals, according to David Conn of the London GUARDIAN. Figures released by the FA on Friday revealed that of the £174M total, Man City paid the most to agents: £26.3M. Chelsea was the "second-highest payer of agents' fees," spending £25M in the period, which covered Feb. 2, 2016-Jan. 31, 2017. ManU was the third-highest paying club, "racking up" £19M to agents, followed by Liverpool, which paid £13.8M, and Arsenal, £10.2M. The clubs that paid the least were promoted at the end of the '15-16 season from the Championship: Hull City, which spent £1.9M on agents, and Burnley, whose figure was £2.6M. The total represents a 34% increase on the £130M Premier League clubs spent in agents' fees in '15, the most recent full year for which the figures were published (GUARDIAN, 4/7). The BBC's David Ornstein reported Premier League teams spent a "record" £1.38B on transfers in the '16-17 season -- a 43% increase on transfer spending from the '14-15 season. In League One and League Two, "total spending on agents and intermediaries decreased" from the '14-15 figures. League One sides spent £3,098,508, down from £3,167,964, while League Two teams spent £821,450, down from £1,007,920 (BBC, 4/7).