£1.1 BILLION

Chelsea’s Luiz deal sends Premier spending into orbit

PREMIER LEAGUE spending went off the scale on a crazy final day of the transfer window that saw David Luiz seal a sensational return to Chelsea.

The Brazil defender, who left Stamford Bridge two years ago, arrived in London last night to complete his £32million move from Paris SaintGermain, as exclusively revealed on MailOnline. The deal took this summer’s spending past an unprecedented £1.1billion.

It was almost matched in the window’s closing minutes when Newcastle accepted Tottenham’s offer of £30m for France midfielder Moussa Sissoko, who had appeared to be going to Everton.

This window has smashed last summer’s total of £870m, with 13 of the 20 Premier League clubs breaking their own transfer records.

On a dramatic day, Premier League champi- ons Leicester obliterated their transfer record with the £29.7m capture of Sporting Lisbon striker Islam Slimani.

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere secured a season-long loan to Bournemouth amid interest from Roma, AC Milan and Crystal Palace, and Pep Guardiola completed his clearout at Manchester City with four players leaving the Etihad. England goalkeeper Joe Hart completed his switch to Torino, Wilfried Bony joined Stoke, Eliaquim Mangala moved to Valencia and Samir Nasri joined Sevilla — all on season-long loans.

Last night, Sir Alex Ferguson said increased spending was ‘obvious’ as a result of the Premier League’s £5.136bn TV rights deal.

‘The TV deal struck two years ago created a situation where the obvious thing was transfer values were going to go up, and salaries were going to go up,’ said the former Manchester United manager. ‘The minute the deal was struck, a lot of things were going to increase.’