| ARSENAL | |||||||
| Players Purchased | Fee | Players Sold | Fee | Net Total | |||
| Season 09/10 | |||||||
| Thomas Vermaelen | £10,000,000 | Abu Ogogo | Free | ||||
| Samuel Galindo | Undisclosed | Emmanuel Adebayo | £25,000,000 | ||||
| Sol Campbell | Free | Kolo Toure | £16,000,000 | ||||
| James Dunne | Signed | ||||||
| Rene Steer | Signed | ||||||
| Total | £10,000,000 | £41,000,000 | -£31,000,000 | ||||
| Season 08/09 | |||||||
| Amaury Bischoff | Undisclosed | Mathieu Flamini | Free | ||||
| Mikel Sylvester | £750,000 | Alexander Hleb | £11,800,000 | ||||
| Andrei Arshavin | £15,000,000 | Gilberto Silva | £1,000,000 | ||||
| Justin Hoyte | £3,000,000 | ||||||
| [1] | |||||||
| Total | £15,750,000 | £15,800,000 | -£50,000 | ||||
| Season 07/08 | |||||||
| Samir Nasri | £15,800,000 | Jens Lehmann | Free | ||||
| Aaron Ramsey | £5,000,000 | Lassana Diarra | £5,500,000 | ||||
| Luke Freeman | £200,000 | Matthew Connolly | £1,000,000 | ||||
| Lassana Diarra | £4,000,000 | Joe O'Cearuill | Free | ||||
| Bakari Sagna | £6,000,000 | Ryan Garry | Free | ||||
| Jose Reyes | £8,100,000 | ||||||
| Fredrik Ljungberg | £3,000,000 | ||||||
| Total | £31,000,000 | £17,600,000 | £13,400,000 | ||||
| Season 06/07 | |||||||
| Eduardo | £7,500,000 | Peggy Lokando | Free | ||||
| Nacer Barazite | Signed | Arturo Lupoli | Free | ||||
| Lukasz Fabianski | £2,000,000 | Thierry Henry | £16,100,000 | ||||
| Denilson | £3,400,000 | Jeremie Aliadiere | £2,000,000 | ||||
| William Gallas | Swap | Mart Poom | Signed | ||||
| Alexandre Song Billong | £1,000,000 | Fabrice Muamba | £2,000,000 | ||||
| Fran Merida Perez | Free | Sebastian Larsson | £1,000,000 | ||||
| Joe O'Cearuill | Free | Bisan Lauren | £500,000 | ||||
| Anthony Stokes | £2,000,000 | ||||||
| Ashley Cole | £5,000,000 | ||||||
| Pascal Cygan | £2,000,000 | ||||||
| Sol Campbell | Free | ||||||
| Ryan Smith | £300,000 | ||||||
| Graham Stack | Signed | ||||||
| Michael Jordan | Free | ||||||
| (*Moved to Emirates) | |||||||
| Total | £13,900,000 | £30,900,000 | -£17,000,000 | ||||
| Season 05/06 | |||||||
| Tomas Rosicky | £6,800,000 | Robert Pires | Free | ||||
| Mart Poom | Signed | Mark Howard | Free | ||||
| Theo Walcott | £9,100,000 | Quincy Owusu-Abe | £1,500,000 | ||||
| Emmanuel Adebayor | £7,000,000 | David Bentley | £10,000,000[2] | ||||
| Vassiriki Diaby | £2,000,000 | Patrick Cregg | Free | ||||
| Aleksandr Hleb | £11,200,000 | Frankie Simek | Free | ||||
| Armand Traore | £250,000 | Sebastian Svard | Free | ||||
| Vito Mannone | £350,000 | Patrick Vieira | £13,700,000 | ||||
| Nicklas Bendtner | £200,000 | Jermaine Pennant | £4,670,000 | ||||
| Stephen O'Donnell | Free | ||||||
| Daniel Karbassiyoo | Free | ||||||
| Stuart Taylor | £250,000 | ||||||
| Dean McDonald | Free | ||||||
| Adam Birchall | Free | ||||||
| Olafur Ingi Skulason | Free | ||||||
| Total | £36,900,000 | £30,120,000 | £6,780,000 | ||||
| Season 04/05 | |||||||
| Emmanuel Eboue | £1,000,000 | Chris Wright | Free | ||||
| Mathieu Flamini | £1,000,000 | Edu | Free | ||||
| Manuel Almunia | £2,500,000 | Dominic Shimmin | £300,000 | ||||
| Matthew Hislop | Free | ||||||
| Rami Shaaban | Free | ||||||
| John Spicer | Signed | ||||||
| Tomas Danilevicius | Signed | ||||||
| Stephen Bradley | |||||||
| Sylvain Wiltord | Free | ||||||
| Francis Jeffers | £2,600,000 | ||||||
| Igor Stepanovs | Signed | ||||||
| Nwankwo Kanu | Free | ||||||
| Ray Parlour | Free | ||||||
| Martin Keown | Free | ||||||
| Total | £4,500,000 | £2,900,000 | £1,600,000 | ||||
| Season 03/04 | |||||||
| Arturo Lupoli | Signed | Dean Shiels | Free | ||||
| Robin Van Persie | £2,750,000 | Giovanni Van Bronc | £3,000,000 | ||||
| Jose Reyes | £13,000,000 | Alex Bailey | Free | ||||
| Gael Clichy | £250,000 | Efstathios Tavlaridis | £250,000 | ||||
| Johan Djourou | £0 | Craig Holloway | Free | ||||
| Jens Lehmann | £2,000,000 | Ashley Probets | Free | ||||
| Philippe Senderos | £2,500,000 | Liam Chilvers | Free | ||||
| Cesc Fabregas | Free | Nicky Nicolau | Free | ||||
| Jerome Thomas | £100,000 | ||||||
| Moritz Volz | £500,000 | ||||||
| John Halls | Nominal | ||||||
| Guillaume Warmuz | Free | ||||||
| Oleg Luzhny | Free | ||||||
| Total | £20,500,000 | £3,850,000 | £16,650,000 | ||||
| Season 02/03 | |||||||
| Guillaume Warmuz | Signed | David Seaman | Free | ||||
| Rami Shaaban | Signed | Graham Barrett | Free | ||||
| Gilberto Silva | £4,500,000 | Ben Chorley | Free | ||||
| Pascal Cygan | £2,100,000 | Michael Gordon | Free | ||||
| Carlin Itonga | Free | ||||||
| Matthew Rouse | Signed | ||||||
| David Noble | Signed | ||||||
| David Grondin | Free | ||||||
| Matthew Upson | £1,000,000 | ||||||
| Steven Sidwell | £250,000 | ||||||
| Jo Kuffour | Free | ||||||
| Richard Wright | £3,500,000 | ||||||
| Rohan Ricketts | Free | ||||||
| Alex Manninger | £960,000 | ||||||
| Total | £6,600,000 | £5,710,000 | £890,000 | ||||
| Season 01/02 | |||||||
| Kolo Toure | £150,000 | Greg Lincoln | Signed | ||||
| Efstathios Tavlaridis | £600,000 | Sylvinho | £3,500,000 | ||||
| Richard Wright | £6,000,000 | Guillaume Norbert | Free | ||||
| Sol Campbell | Free | Guy Demel | £194,000 | ||||
| Giovanni Van Bronckhor | £8,500,000 | Stefan Malz | £580,000 | ||||
| Total | £15,250,000 | £4,274,000 | £10,976,000 | ||||
| Season 00/01 | |||||||
| Francis Jeffers | £8,000,000 | Nelson Vivas | Free | ||||
| Juan | Signed | James Harper | Signed | ||||
| Edu | £6,000,000 | Christopher Wreh | Signed | ||||
| Tomas Danilevicius | £1,000,000 | Paolo Vernazza | £350,000 | ||||
| Igor Stepanovs | £1,000,000 | Rhys Weston | £300,000 | ||||
| Sylvain Wiltord | £13,000,000 | Brian McGovern | £50,000 | ||||
| Guy Demel | Free | Emmanuel Petit | £5,000,000 | ||||
| Moritz Volz | Signed | Marc Overmars | £25,000,000 | ||||
| Sebastian Svard | Nominal | Jay Bothroyd | £1,000,000 | ||||
| Robert Pires | £6,000,000 | ||||||
| Total | £35,000,000 | £31,700,000 | £3,300,000 | ||||
| Season 99/00 | |||||||
| Lauren | £7,200,000 | Julian Gray | £500,000 | ||||
| Niccolo Galli | £0 | Tommy Black | £500,000 | ||||
| Thierry Henry | £10,500,000 | Davor Suker | Free | ||||
| Davor Suker | £500,000 | Nigel Winterburn | Signed | ||||
| Sylvinho | £4,000,000 | Narada Bernard | Free | ||||
| Stefan Malz | £650,000 | Stephen Hughes | £3,000,000 | ||||
| Omer Riza | Nominal | ||||||
| Luis Boa Morte | £500,000 | ||||||
| Dave Livermore | £30,000 | ||||||
| Nicolas Anelka | £23,000,000 | ||||||
| Michael Black | Free | ||||||
| Jason Crowe | £1,000,000 | ||||||
| Steve Bould | £500,000 | ||||||
| Total | £22,850,000 | £29,030,000 | -£6,180,000 | ||||
| Season 98/99 | |||||||
| Oleg Luzhny | £1,800,000 | Kaba Diawara | £3,000,000 | ||||
| Kaba Diawara | £2,500,000 | William Huck | £50,000 | ||||
| Nwankwo Kanu | £4,500,000 | Jamie Day | £20,000 | ||||
| Jermaine Pennant | £2,000,000 | Isaiah Rankin | £1,300,000 | ||||
| William Huck | Free | Ian Wright | £500,000 | ||||
| Eric Chukwunyelu Obinn | Signed | ||||||
| Fredrik Ljungberg | £3,000,000 | ||||||
| Total | £13,800,000 | £4,870,000 | £8,930,000 | ||||
| Season 97/98 | |||||||
| David Grondin | £500,000 | Richard Hughes | Free | ||||
| Christopher Wreh | £300,000 | Peter Clark | Free | ||||
| Vince Bartram | Signed | ||||||
| Valur Gislason | Unknown | ||||||
| Jehad Muntasser | Free | ||||||
| Glenn Helder | Nominal | ||||||
| Ian Selley | £500,000 | ||||||
| Paul Shaw | £250,000 | ||||||
| Total | £800,000 | £750,000 | £50,000 | ||||
| Season 96/97 | |||||||
| Lee Canoville | Signed | Lee Harper | £125,000 | ||||
| Marc Overmars | £7,000,000 | Paul Merson | £4,500,000 | ||||
| Alberto Mendez | Unknown | Matthew Rose | £500,000 | ||||
| Luis Boa Morte | £1,750,000 | John Hartson | £3,300,000 | ||||
| Gilles Grimandi | £2,500,000 | Andy Linighan | £110,000 | ||||
| Emmanuel Petit | £2,500,000 | Paul Read | £35,000 | ||||
| Alex Manninger | £500,000 | David Hillier | £250,000 | ||||
| Matthew Upson | £2,000,000 | Eddie McGoldrick | £300,000 | ||||
| Nicolas Anelka | £500,000 | Paul Dickov | £1,000,000 | ||||
| Patrick Vieira | £3,500,000 | Roy O'Brien | Signed | ||||
| Remi Garde | Free | Kevin Dennis | Free | ||||
| Ben Smith | Signed | ||||||
| Richard Goddard | Free | ||||||
| Total | £20,250,000 | £10,120,000 | £10,130,000 | ||||
| Season 95/96 | |||||||
| Valur Gislason | £0 | Stefan Schwarz | £1,750,000 | ||||
| John Lukic | Free | ||||||
| Total | £0 | £1,750,000 | -£1,750,000 | ||||
| Season 94/95 | |||||||
| David Platt | £4,750,000 | Jimmy Carter | Free | ||||
| Dennis Bergkamp | £7,500,000 | Kevin Campbell | £2,800,000 | ||||
| Glenn Helder | £2,300,000 | Alan Miller | £500,000 | ||||
| John Hartson | £2,500,000 | ||||||
| Chris Kiwomya | £1,500,000 | ||||||
| Vince Bartram | £40,000 | ||||||
| Total | £18,590,000 | £3,300,000 | £15,290,000 | ||||
| Season 93/94 | |||||||
| Lee Harper | £150,000 | Ryan Kirby | Free | ||||
| Stefan Schwarz | £0 | Anders Limpar | £1,600,000 | ||||
| Neil Heaney | £300,000 | ||||||
| Paul Harford | Free | ||||||
| Total | £150,000 | £1,900,000 | -£1,750,000 | ||||
| Season 92/93 | |||||||
| Eddie McGoldrick | £1,000,000 | Nicky Rust | Free | ||||
| Martin Keown | £2,000,000 | Jason Brissett | Free | ||||
| John Jensen | £1,100,000 | Matt Joseph | Free | ||||
| David Rocastle | £2,000,000 | ||||||
| Total | £4,100,000 | £2,000,000 | £2,100,000 | ||||
| Combined Totals | £269,940,000 | £237,574,000 | £32,366,000 | ||||