| Watford | ||||||||
| Combined Totals | £191,975,000 | £139,500,000 | £52,475,000 | 1118 | ||||
| Players Purchased | Fee | Players Sold | Fee | Net Total | Points | Position | ||
| Season 18/19 | ||||||||
| Gerard Deulofeu | £11,500,000 | Nordin Amrabat | £4,000,000 | |||||
| Adam Masina | £4,500,000 | Brandon Mason | Free | |||||
| Marc Navarro | £1,800,000 | David Sesay | Free | |||||
| Ken Sema | £2,000,000 | Richarlison | £35,000,000 | |||||
| Ben Wilmot | £1,530,000 | Ben Watson | Free | |||||
| Ben Foster | Undisclosed | Costel Pantilimon | Undisclosed | |||||
| Domingos Quina | £1,000,000 | |||||||
| Ben Wilmot | £1,000,000 | |||||||
| £23,330,000 | £39,000,000 | -£15,670,000 | ||||||
| Season 17/18 | ||||||||
| Tom Cleverley | £8,000,000 | Mario Suárez | Undisclosed | |||||
| Will Hughes | £8,000,000 | Steven Berghuis | £6,000,000 | |||||
| Daniel Bachmann | Free | Valon Behrami | Undisclosed | |||||
| Kiko Femenía | Free | |||||||
| Nathaniel Chalobah | £5,000,000 | |||||||
| Andre Gray | £18,500,000 | |||||||
| Richarlison | £11,000,000 | |||||||
| Marvin Zeegelaar | £3,000,000 | |||||||
| £53,500,000 | £6,000,000 | £47,500,000 | ||||||
| Season 16/17 | ||||||||
| Jerome Sinclair | £4,000,000 | Gabriele Angella | Undisclosed | |||||
| Christian Kabasele | £6,000,000 | Almen Abdi | £3,000,000 | |||||
| Isaac Success | £12,500,000 | Daniel Pudil | £2,000,000 | |||||
| Brice Dja Djédjé | £2,000,000 | Uche Ikpeazu | Free | |||||
| Younès Kaboul | £4,000,000 | Matěj Vydra | £8,000,000 | |||||
| Roberto Pereyra | £12,000,000 | Ikechi Anya | £3,500,000 | |||||
| Daryl Janmaat | £7,500,000 | Allan Nyom | £3,000,000 | |||||
| Stefano Okaka | Undisclosed | Odion Ighalo | £20,000,000 | |||||
| Adrian Mariappa | Free | |||||||
| Mauro Zárate | £2,300,000 | |||||||
| £50,300,000 | £39,500,000 | £10,800,000 | ||||||
| Season 15/16 | ||||||||
| Giedrius Arlauskis | Free | Marco Motta | Released | |||||
| Sebastian Prödl | Free | Luke O Nien | Released | |||||
| Marco Motta | Free | Jonathan Bond | £250,000 | |||||
| Matěj Vydra | Undisclosed | Fernando Forestieri | £3,000,000 | |||||
| José Holebas | £1,800,000 | Diego Fabbrini | £1,500,000 | |||||
| Étienne Capoue | £7,000,000 | |||||||
| Valon Behrami | £3,000,000 | |||||||
| Allan Nyom | Undisclosed | |||||||
| José Jurado | Undisclosed | |||||||
| Miguel Britos | Free | |||||||
| Steven Berghuis | £4,600,000 | |||||||
| Obbi Oularé | £6,000,000 | |||||||
| Adlene Guedioura | Undisclosed | |||||||
| Nordin Amrabat | £6,000,000 | |||||||
| Costel Pantilimon | Free | |||||||
| Adalberto Peñaranda | Undisclosed | |||||||
| Abdoulaye Doucouré | £8,000,000 | |||||||
| Mario Suárez | £4,000,000 | |||||||
| PTS | POS | |||||||
| £40,400,000 | £4,750,000 | £35,650,000 | 45 | 13 | ||||
| Season 14/15 | ||||||||
| Lloyd Dyer | Free | Manuel Almunia | Released | |||||
| Heurelho Gomes | Free | Marco Cassetti | Released | |||||
| Craig Cathcart | Free | Ross Jenkins | Released | |||||
| Gabriel Tamaș | Free | Nyron Nosworthy | Released | |||||
| Juan Carlos Paredes | Undisclosed | Fitz Hall | Released | |||||
| Rene Gilmartin | Undisclosed | Lucas Neill | Released | |||||
| Ben Watson | Undisclosed | Albert Riera. | Released | |||||
| Vujadin Savić | Free | Reece Brown | Undisclosed | |||||
| Javier Acuña | Undisclosed | |||||||
| Kurtis Cumberbatch | Undisclosed | |||||||
| Gary Woods | Released | |||||||
| Ollie Cox | Released | |||||||
| Bobson Bawling | Released | Champ | ||||||
| PTS | POS | |||||||
| £0 | £0 | £0 | 89 | 2 | ||||
| Season 13/14 | ||||||||
| Lewis McGugan | Free | Craig Forsyth | £150,000 | |||||
| Daniel Pudil | Signed | Stephen McGinn | Free | |||||
| Almen Abdi | Signed | Britt Assombalonga | £1,250,000 | |||||
| Christian Battocchio | Signed | Jonathan Hogg | Undisclosed | |||||
| Daniel Pudil | Signed | Aaron Tumwa | Free | |||||
| Diego Fabbrini | Signed | |||||||
| Gabriele Angella | Signed | |||||||
| Javier Acuña Caballero | Signed | |||||||
| Marco Cassetti | Signed | |||||||
| Marco Davide Faraoni | Signed | |||||||
| Reece Brown | Signed | |||||||
| Iketchi Anya | Signed | |||||||
| Joel Ekstrand | Signed | Prem | ||||||
| Santos Iriney | Signed | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £0 | £1,400,000 | -£1,400,000 | 60 | 13 | |||
| Season 12/13 | ||||||||
| Fernando Martin Forestieri | Undisclosed | Rene Gilmartin | Free | |||||
| Adrian Mariappa | £3,000,000 | |||||||
| Scott Loach | £150,000 | |||||||
| Gavin Massey | Free | |||||||
| Joe Gamer | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £0 | £3,150,000 | -£3,150,000 | 77 | 3 | |||
| Season 2011/12 | ||||||||
| David Mirfin | Free | Matt Sadler | Free | |||||
| Mark Yeates | Signed | Don Cowie | Free | |||||
| Prince Buaben | Free | Tom Aldred | Free | |||||
| Chris Iwelumo | Signed | Marvin Sordell | £3,000,000 | |||||
| Carl Dickinson | £250,000 | Liam Henderson | Free | |||||
| Jonathan Hogg | Signed | Will Buckley | £1,000,000 | |||||
| Joe Garner | Signed | Danny Graham | £3,500,000 | |||||
| Nyron Nosworthy | Free | Nathan Ellington | Free | |||||
| Craig Forsyth | Signed | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £250,000 | £7,500,000 | -£7,250,000 | 64 | 11 | |||
| Season 2010/11 | ||||||||
| Troy Deeney | £500,000 | Lewis Young | Free | |||||
| Josh Walker | Free | Jon Harley | Free | |||||
| Tom Aldred | Free | Billy Gibson | Free | |||||
| Rene Gilmartin | Signed | Scott Severin | Signed | |||||
| Richard Lee | Free | |||||||
| Will Hoskins | Free | |||||||
| Jordan Parkes | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £500,000 | £0 | £500,000 | 61 | 14 | |||
| Season 2009/10 | ||||||||
| Danny Graham | Free | Leigh Bromby | Signed | |||||
| Stephen McGinn | Signed | Theo Robinson | Free | |||||
| Will Buckley | Signed | Stuart Searle | Free | |||||
| Martin Taylor | Free | Steven Kabba | Free | |||||
| Scott Severin | Free | Tamas Priskin | Signed | |||||
| Tommy Smith | £1,800,000 | |||||||
| Jobi McAnuff | Signed | |||||||
| Mike Williamson | £3,000,000 | |||||||
| John O'Toole | Signed | |||||||
| Lee Williamson | Signed | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £0 | £4,800,000 | -£4,800,000 | 54 | 16 | |||
| Season 2008/09 | ||||||||
| Jon Harley | Free | Gavin Mahon | Signed | |||||
| Don Cowie | Signed | Toumani Diagouraga | Free | |||||
| Darius Henderson | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Alex Campana | Signed | |||||||
| Dan Shittu | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Lionel Ainsworth | Signed | |||||||
| Moses Ashikodi | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £0 | £4,000,000 | -£4,000,000 | 58 | 13 | |||
| Season 2007/08 | ||||||||
| Nathan Ellington | £3,250,000 | Claude Seanla | Free | |||||
| Lionel Ainsworth | Signed | Hameur Bouazza | £3,000,000 | |||||
| Matt Sadler | £750,000 | Clarke Carlisle | £200,000 | |||||
| Leigh Bromby | £600,000 | Anthony McNamee | Signed | |||||
| John Eustace | £250,000 | Marlon King | £5,000,000 | |||||
| Matt Jackson | Free | Ben Gill | Free | |||||
| Mart Poom | Signed | Dominic Blizzard | Free | |||||
| Jobi McAnuff | £1,750,000 | James Chambers | Free | |||||
| Chris Powell | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £6,600,000 | £8,200,000 | -£1,600,000 | 70 | 6 | |||
| Season 2006/07 | ||||||||
| Dan Shittu | £1,600,000 | Joe O'Cearuill | Free | |||||
| Albert Jarrett | Free | Claude Seanla | Free | |||||
| Tommy Smith | £500,000 | Matthew Spring | £200,000 | |||||
| Moses Ashikodi | Nominal | Ashley Young | £9,650,000 | |||||
| Lee Williamson | Signed | Jamie Hand | Free | |||||
| Will Hoskins | Signed | |||||||
| Steven Kabba | £500,000 | |||||||
| Yohann Cavalli | Free | |||||||
| Gareth Williams | Signed | |||||||
| Cedric Avinel | Free | |||||||
| Douglas Rinaldi | Signed | |||||||
| Claude Seanla | Free | |||||||
| Chris Powell | Free | Prem | ||||||
| Damien Francis | £1,500,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £4,100,000 | £9,850,000 | -£5,750,000 | 28 | 20 | |||
| Season 2005/06 | ||||||||
| Jordan Stewart | £125,000 | Heidar Helguson | £1,300,000 | |||||
| Martin Devaney | Free | Omari Coleman | Free | |||||
| Jose Junior | Free | Paul Mayo | Free | |||||
| Darius Henderson | £450,000 | Jack Smith | Free | |||||
| Clarke Carlisle | £100,000 | Sean Dyche | Free | |||||
| Malky Mackay | Free | Neil Cox | Free | |||||
| Matthew Spring | £150,000 | Jermaine Darlington | Free | |||||
| Les Ferdinand | Free | Brynjar Gunnarsson | Signed | |||||
| Marlon King | £500,000 | Jason Norville | Free | |||||
| Andy Ferrell | Free | Andy Ferrell | Free | |||||
| Jermaine Darlington | Free | Bruce Dyer | Free | |||||
| James Chambers | £250,000 | Ryan Gilligan | Free | |||||
| Martin Devaney | Free | |||||||
| Paul Devlin | Free | |||||||
| Adam Griffiths | Free | |||||||
| Danny Webber | £500,000 | |||||||
| Ben Herd | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £1,575,000 | £1,800,000 | -£225,000 | 81 | 3 | |||
| Season 2004/05 | ||||||||
| Brynjar Gunnarsson | Free | Paolo Vernazza | Free | |||||
| Wayne Brown | Free | |||||||
| Micah Hyde | Free | |||||||
| Neal Ardley | Free | |||||||
| Scott P Fitzgerald | Free | |||||||
| Marcus Gayle | Free | |||||||
| Gary Fisken | Free | |||||||
| Jerel Ifil | £70,000 | |||||||
| Tom Champion | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £0 | £70,000 | -£70,000 | 52 | 18 | |||
| Season 2003/04 | ||||||||
| Bruce Dyer | Free | Stephen Glass | Free | |||||
| Danny Webber | Nominal | Neil Saunders | Free | |||||
| Paul Devlin | £150,000 | Matt Langston | Free | |||||
| Paul Mayo | £65,000 | Stephen Hughes | Free | |||||
| Tommy Smith | Free | |||||||
| Paul Robinson | £375,000 | |||||||
| Richard Johnson | Free | |||||||
| Gifton Noel-Williams | Free | |||||||
| Allan Nielsen | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £215,000 | £375,000 | -£160,000 | 57 | 16 | |||
| Season 2002/03 | ||||||||
| Sean Dyche | Free | Espen Baardsen | Free | |||||
| Neal Ardley | Free | Gary Cohen | Signed | |||||
| Wayne Brown | Free | Bradley Hughes | Free | |||||
| Scott P Fitzgerald | Free | Thomas Neill | Free | PTS | POS | |||
| Total | £0 | £0 | £0 | 60 | 13 | |||
| Season 2001/02 | ||||||||
| Ramon Vega | Free | Steve Palmer | Free | |||||
| Stephen Glass | Free | Chris Day | Free | |||||
| Stephen Hughes | Free | Peter Kennedy | £300,000 | |||||
| Patrick Blondeau | Free | David Perpetuini | £100,000 | |||||
| Filippo Galli | Free | Robert Page | £350,000 | |||||
| Marcus Gayle | £900,000 | Darren Ward | £500,000 | |||||
| Pierre Issa | Free | Allan Smart | £225,000 | |||||
| Gavin Mahon | £150,000 | Tommy Mooney | Free | |||||
| Clint Easton | £100,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £1,050,000 | £1,575,000 | -£525,000 | 59 | 14 | |||
| Season 2000/01 | ||||||||
| Allan Nielsen | £2,250,000 | Lee Johnson | Free | |||||
| Espen Baardsen | £1,250,000 | Mark Williams | Signed | |||||
| Steven Armstrong | Signed | Charlie Miller | Free | |||||
| Paolo Vernazza | £350,000 | Chad Mansley | Non-contract | |||||
| Michel Ngonge | £50,000 | |||||||
| Steve Brooker | £15,000 | |||||||
| Luke Edghill | Free | |||||||
| Des Lyttle | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £3,850,000 | £65,000 | £3,785,000 | 69 | 9 | |||
| Season 1999/00 | ||||||||
| Mark Williams | Free | Tony Daley | Free | |||||
| Des Lyttle | Free | Darren Bazeley | Free | |||||
| Dominic Foley | Free | Stuart Slater | Free | |||||
| Alexandre Bonnot | Free | Keith Millen | £35,000 | |||||
| Herwig Walker | Signed | Xavier Gravelaine | £300,000 | |||||
| Nordin Wooter | £950,000 | Colin Miles | Free | |||||
| Charlie Miller | £450,000 | Craig Farley | Free | |||||
| Lee Cook | Signed | |||||||
| Neil Cox | £500,000 | |||||||
| Xavier Gravelaine | Free | |||||||
| David Warner | Signed | Prem | ||||||
| Heidar Helguson | £1,500,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £3,400,000 | £335,000 | £3,065,000 | 24 | 20 | |||
| Season 1998/99 | ||||||||
| Dean Yates | Free | Dai Thomas | Free | |||||
| Adrian Bakalli | £100,000 | |||||||
| Allan Smart | £100,000 | |||||||
| Nick Wright | £100,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £300,000 | £0 | £300,000 | 77 | 5 | |||
| Season 1997/98 | ||||||||
| Peter Kennedy | £130,000 | Gary Penrice | Free | |||||
| Dai Thomas | £100,000 | David Connolly | Free | |||||
| Chris Day | Swap | Craig Ramage | Signed | |||||
| Ronny Rosenthal | Free | Lewis Reid | Signed | |||||
| Per-Ola Ljung | Transfer | Kevin Miller | £1,550,000 | |||||
| Johann Gudmundsson | Signed | Kevin Phillips | £325,000 | |||||
| Jason Lee | £200,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £430,000 | £1,875,000 | -£1,445,000 | - | - | |||
| Season 1996/97 | ||||||||
| Stuart Slater | Free | David Barnes | Free | |||||
| Alec Chamberlain | £40,000 | Andy Hessenthaler | £235,000 | |||||
| Richard Flash | Free | Jamie Moralee | Free | |||||
| Steve Talboys | Free | Derek Payne | Free | |||||
| Kerry Dixon | Free | |||||||
| David Holdsworth | £450,000 | |||||||
| Geoff Pitcher | Non-contract | |||||||
| Devon White | £20,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £40,000 | £705,000 | -£665,000 | - | - | |||
| Season 1995/96 | ||||||||
| Steve Palmer | £135,000 | Alex Inglethorpe | Signed | |||||
| Gary Penrice | £300,000 | |||||||
| Kerry Dixon | £25,000 | |||||||
| Devon White | £100,000 | |||||||
| Steve Cherry | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £560,000 | £0 | £560,000 | 48 | 23 | |||
| Season 1994/95 | ||||||||
| Dominic Ludden | £100,000 | Jason Drysdale | £425,000 | |||||
| Kevin Miller | £250,000 | Julian Alsford | Free | |||||
| Peter Beadle | Signed | Simon Sheppard | Signed | |||||
| Kevin Phillips | £10,000 | Lee Nogan | £250,000 | |||||
| Jamie Moralee | £450,000 | Jason Soloman | Free | |||||
| Geoff Pitcher | Transfer | Paul Furlong | £2,300,000 | |||||
| Tommy Mooney | Signed | Perry Suckling | Free | |||||
| Derek Payne | Signed | Jim Meara | Free | |||||
| Keith Dublin | £100,000 | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £810,000 | £3,075,000 | -£2,265,000 | 70 | 7 | |||
| Season 1993/94 | ||||||||
| David Barnes | £50,000 | Ken Charlery | £150,000 | |||||
| Craig Ramage | £90,000 | Roger Willis | £150,000 | |||||
| Keith Millen | Transfer | Bruce Dyer | £1,100,000 | |||||
| Colin Foster | £100,000 | Barry Ashby | Signed | |||||
| Rod Thomas | Free | PTS | POS | |||||
| Total | £240,000 | £1,400,000 | -£1,160,000 | 54 | 19 | |||
| Season 1992/93 | ||||||||
| Roger Willis | 175,000 | Joe McLaughlin | Signed | |||||
| Ken Charlery | 350,000 | Steve Butler | 75,000 | |||||
| Total | £525,000 | £75,000 | £450,000 | 55 | 16 | |||