Premier League clubs spent more than £155m on transfer deadline day as the summer window outlay reached a record £1.165bn.
Teams had already spent a combined £1.005bn as of 08:30 BST on Wednesday, shattering last year's record £870m.
Thirteen top-flight teams broke their own transfer records.
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