| Players Purchased | Fee | Players Sold | Fee | Net Total | ||||
| Season 11/12 | ||||||||
| Phil Jones | £17,000,000 | Corry Evans | £500,000 | |||||
| David De Gea | £18,900,000 | Joe Dudgeon[1] | £300,000 | |||||
| Ashley Young | £17,000,000 | John O'Shea | £4,500,000 | |||||
| Paul Scholes | Free | Wes Brown | £1,200,000 | |||||
| Nicholas Ajose | undisclosed | |||||||
| Gabriel Obertan | £3,000,000 | |||||||
| Darron Gibson | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Daniel Drinkwater | £750,000 | |||||||
| Ravel Morrison | £1,000,000 | |||||||
| Mame Biram Diouf | £1,500,000 | |||||||
| Total | £52,900,000 | £14,750,000 | £38,150,000 | |||||
| Season 10/11 | ||||||||
| Chris Smalling | £10,000,000 | Ben Foster | £6,000,000 | |||||
| Javier Hernandez | £6,000,000 | Zoran Tosic | £7,000,000 | |||||
| Marnick Vermijl | £300,000 | Tom Heaton | Free | |||||
| Bebe | £7,400,000 | Ron-Robert Zieler | Free | |||||
| Anders Lindegaard | £3,500,000 | David Gray | Free | |||||
| Craig Cathcart | £350,000 | |||||||
| James Chester | £300,000 | |||||||
| Cameron Stewart | undisclosed | |||||||
| Total | £27,200,000 | £13,650,000 | £13,550,000 | |||||
| Season 09/10 | ||||||||
| Antonio Valencia | £16,000,000[2] | Cristiano Ronaldo | £80,000,000 | |||||
| Michael Owen | Free | Lee Martin | £1,500,000[3] | |||||
| Gabriel Obertan | £3,000,000 | Fraizer Campbell | £3,500,000[4] | |||||
| Mame Biram Diouf | £2,000,000[5] | Richard Eckersley | Tribunal | |||||
| Paul Pogba | Nominal | Manucho | undisclosed | |||||
| Danile Galbraith | Free | |||||||
| Carlos Tevez | Free | |||||||
| Danny Simpson | £500,000 | |||||||
| Total | £21,000,000 | £85,500,000 | -£64,500,000 | |||||
| Season 08/09 | ||||||||
| Demitar Berbatov | £30,750,000 | Ritchie Jones | Free | |||||
| Zoran Tosic | £5,000,000[6] | Chris Eagles | £1,250,000 | |||||
| Adem Ljajic | Cancelled[7] | Michael Lea | Free | |||||
| Ritchie De Laet | Undisclosed | Mikel Sylvestre | £750,000 | |||||
| Louis Saha | Signed | |||||||
| Total | £35,750,000 | £2,000,000 | £33,750,000 | |||||
| Season 07/08 | ||||||||
| Manucho | Signed | Gerard Pique | £6,000,000 | |||||
| Carlos Tevez | £9,000,000[8] | Kieran Lee | Free | |||||
| Nani | £13,500,000 | Phil Bardsley | £2,000,000 | |||||
| Tomasz Kuszczak | £2,150,000 | Ryan Shawcross | £1,000,000 | |||||
| Anderson | £15,000,000 | Adam Eckersley | Free | |||||
| Owen Hargreaves | £17,000,000 | Phil Marsh | Free | |||||
| Rafael Da Silva | £2,500,000 | Gabriel Heinze | £8,000,000 | |||||
| Fabio Da Silva | £2,600,000 | Alan Smith | £6,000,000 | |||||
| Rodrigo Possebon | Signed | Daniel Rose | Signed | |||||
| Giuseppe Rossi | £6,700,000 | |||||||
| Kieran Richardson | £5,500,000 | |||||||
| Total | £61,750,000 | £35,200,000 | £26,550,000 | |||||
| Season 06/07 | ||||||||
| Michael Carrick | £18,600,000 | Tim Howard | £3,000,000 | |||||
| David Jones | £1,000,000 | |||||||
| Liam Miller | Free | |||||||
| Paul McShane | Free | |||||||
| Luke Steele | Signed | |||||||
| Ruud van Nistelrooy | £10,300,000 | |||||||
| Quinton Fortune | Free | |||||||
| Sylvain Ebanks-Blake | £200,000 | |||||||
| Total | £18,600,000 | £14,500,000 | £4,100,000 | |||||
| Season 05/06 | ||||||||
| Patrice Evra | £5,500,000 | John Mikel Obi | £12,000,000 | |||||
| Nemanja Vidic | £7,000,000 | Eddie Johnson | Free | |||||
| Ben Foster | £1,000,000 | Jonathan Spector | £500,000 | |||||
| Ji-Sung Park | £4,000,000 | Tommy Lee | Free | |||||
| Edwin Van Der Sar | £2,000,000[9] | Phil Picken | Free | |||||
| Colin Heath | Signed | |||||||
| Neil Wood | Free | |||||||
| David Fox | Free | |||||||
| Roy Keane | Free | |||||||
| Kleberson | £2,500,000 | |||||||
| Phil Neville | £3,500,000 | |||||||
| Michael Stewart | Signed | |||||||
| Paul Tierney | Signed | |||||||
| David Bellion | Undisclosed | |||||||
| Daniel Nardiello | Free | |||||||
| Total | £19,500,000 | £18,500,000 | £1,000,000 | |||||
| Season 04/05 | ||||||||
| Florent N'Galula | £0 | Steven Hogg | Free | |||||
| Wayne Rooney | £27,000,000 | Ricardo | Free | |||||
| Giuseppe Rossi | £200,000 | Roy Carroll | Free | |||||
| David Poole | Free | |||||||
| Eric Djemba-Djemba | £1,350,000 | |||||||
| Bojan Djordjic | Free | |||||||
| Diego Forlan | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Luke Chadwick | Free | |||||||
| Nicky Butt | £2,500,000 | |||||||
| Mark Lynch | Signed | |||||||
| Total | £27,200,000 | £5,850,000 | £21,350,000 | |||||
| Season 03/04 | ||||||||
| Liam Miller | Free | Luke Daniels | Free | |||||
| Gabriel Heinze | £6,900,000 | Ben Williams | Free | |||||
| Alan Smith | £7,000,000 | Danny Pugh | Swap | |||||
| Louis Saha | £12,820,000 | Fabien Barthez | Free | |||||
| Dong | £500,000 | Matt Williams | Free | |||||
| Cristiano Ronaldo | £12,200,000 | Alan Tate | Free | |||||
| Kleberson | £5,930,000 | David May | Free | |||||
| Tim Howard | £2,300,000 | Juan Veron | £15,000,000 | |||||
| Eric Djemba-Djemba | £3,500,000 | Danny Webber | Nominal | |||||
| David Bellion | £2,000,000 | David Beckham | £25,000,000 | |||||
| Lee Martin | £200,000 | John Rankin | £0 | |||||
| Total | £53,350,000 | £40,000,000 | £13,350,000 | |||||
| Season 02/03 | ||||||||
| Ricardo | £1,500,000 | Lee Roche | Free | |||||
| Rio Ferdinand | £27,550,000[10] | Kirk Hilton | Free | |||||
| Kieran Richardson | Unknown | Ben Muirhead | Free | |||||
| Ronny Johnsen | Free | |||||||
| Dwight Yorke | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Andy Taylor | Free | |||||||
| Denis Irwin | Free | |||||||
| Nick Culkin | Free | |||||||
| Ronnie Wallwork | Free | |||||||
| Total | £29,050,000 | £2,000,000 | £27,050,000 | |||||
| Season 01/02 | ||||||||
| Luke Steele | £500,000 | Rai Van Der Gouw | Free | |||||
| Diego Forlan | £6,900,000[11] | Paul Rachubka | £200,000 | |||||
| Laurent Blanc | Free | Michael Clegg | Free | |||||
| Roy Carroll | £2,500,000 | Andy Cole | £7,500,000 | |||||
| Juan Veron | £28,100,000 | Jesper Blomqvist | Free | |||||
| Ruud Van Nistelrooy | £19,000,000 | Michael Twiss | Signed | |||||
| Jaap Stam | £16,500,000[12] | |||||||
| George Clegg | Free | |||||||
| Jonathan Greening | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Mark Wilson | £1,500,000 | |||||||
| Stephen Cosgrove | Free | |||||||
| Michael Rose | Free | |||||||
| Josh Walker | Free | |||||||
| Marc Whiteman | Free | |||||||
| Total | £57,000,000 | £27,700,000 | £29,300,000 | |||||
| Season 00/01 | ||||||||
| None | Teddy Sheringham | Free | ||||||
| Ashley Dodd | Free | |||||||
| Rhodri Jones | Free | |||||||
| Mark Bosnich | Free | |||||||
| David Healy | £1,800,000 | |||||||
| Henning Berg | £1,750,000 | |||||||
| Alex Notman | £250,000 | |||||||
| Steve Rose | Free | |||||||
| Jordi Cruyff | Free | |||||||
| Massimo Taibi | £2,500,000 | |||||||
| Danny Higginbotham | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Total | £0 | £8,300,000 | -£8,300,000 | |||||
| Season 99/00 | ||||||||
| Fabien Barthez | £7,800,000 | Paul Wheatcroft | Free | |||||
| Mikael Silvestre | £4,000,000 | John Curtis | £1,500,000 | |||||
| Massimo Taibi | £4,500,000 | Ritchie Wellens | Nominal | |||||
| Quinton Fortune | £1,500,000 | Ian Fitzpatrick | Free | |||||
| Mark Bosnich | Free | Ryan Ford | Nominal | |||||
| Erik Nevland | £250,000 | |||||||
| Jamie Wood | Free | |||||||
| Peter Schmeichel | Free | |||||||
| Total | £17,800,000 | £1,750,000 | £16,050,000 | |||||
| Season 98/99 | ||||||||
| Bojan Djordjic | Signed | Terry Cooke | £1,000,000 | |||||
| Dwight Yorke | £12,600,000 | Michael Ryan | Free | |||||
| Jesper Blomqvist | £4,400,000 | Paul Gibson | Free | |||||
| Jaap Stam | £10,750,000 | Phil Mulryne | £500,000 | |||||
| Chris Casper | £300,000 | |||||||
| Total | £27,750,000 | £1,800,000 | £25,950,000 | |||||
| Season 97/98 | ||||||||
| Jonathan Greening | £1,150,000 | Gary Pallister | £2,500,000 | |||||
| Henning Berg | £5,000,000 | Ben Thornley | £175,000 | |||||
| Robert Trees | Free | |||||||
| Grant Brebner | £300,000 | |||||||
| Tommy Smith | Signed | |||||||
| John O'Kane | £400,000 | |||||||
| Karel Poborsky | £3,000,000 | |||||||
| Pat McGibbon | £250,000 | |||||||
| Michael Appleton | £500,000 | |||||||
| Jon Macken | £1,300,000[13] | |||||||
| Colin Murdock | £100,000 | |||||||
| Simon Davies | £150,000 | |||||||
| Total | £6,150,000 | £8,675,000 | -£2,525,000 | |||||
| Season 96/97 | ||||||||
| Erik Nevland | £1,500,000 | Lee Sharpe | £4,500,000 | |||||
| Teddy Sheringham | £3,500,000 | |||||||
| Total | £5,000,000 | £4,500,000 | £500,000 | |||||
| Season 95/96 | ||||||||
| Jordi Cruyff | £1,300,000 | Tony Coton | £600,000 | |||||
| Karel Poborsky | £3,500,000 | Steve Bruce | Free | |||||
| Ole Solskjaer | £1,500,000 | Gary Twynham | Free | |||||
| Ronny Johnsen | £1,200,000 | Richard Flash | Free | |||||
| Rai Van Der Gouw | £500,000 | Andrei Kanchelskis | £5,000,000 | |||||
| Tony Coton | £500,000 | Gary Walsh | £250,000 | |||||
| Nick Culkin | £250,000 | |||||||
| Total | £8,750,000 | £5,850,000 | £2,900,000 | |||||
| Season 94/95 | ||||||||
| Andy Cole | £7,000,000 | Ashley Westwood | £40,000 | |||||
| David May | £1,250,000 | Richard Irving | £75,000 | |||||
| David Johnson | Free | |||||||
| Mark Rawlinson | Free | |||||||
| Mark Hughes | £1,500,000 | |||||||
| Paul Ince | £7,000,000 | |||||||
| Keith Gillespie | £1,000,000 | |||||||
| Dion Dublin | £2,000,000 | |||||||
| Colin McKee | £265,000 | |||||||
| Neil Whitworth | £350,000 | |||||||
| David Pierce | Free | |||||||
| Craig Lawton | Free | |||||||
| Total | £8,250,000 | £12,230,000 | -£3,980,000 | |||||
| Season 93/94 | ||||||||
| Graeme Tomlinson | £100,000 | Robbie Savage | Free | |||||
| Roy Keane | £3,750,000 | Les Sealey | Free | |||||
| Clayton Blackmore | Free | |||||||
| Mike Phelan | Free | |||||||
| Bryan Robson | Free | |||||||
| Lee Martin | £350,000 | |||||||
| Darren Ferguson | £250,000 | |||||||
| Danny Wallace | £400,000 | |||||||
| Total | £3,850,000 | £1,000,000 | £2,850,000 | |||||
| Season 92/93 | ||||||||
| Les Sealey | Free | Brian Carey | £250,000 | |||||
| Eric Cantona | £1,200,000 | Russell Beardsmore | Free | |||||
| Dion Dublin | £1,000,000 | Neil Webb | £800,000 | |||||
| Pat McGibbon | £100,000 | Derek Brazil | £85,000 | |||||
| Mark Robins | £800,000 | |||||||
| Mal Donaght | £150,000 | |||||||
| Total | £2,300,000 | £2,085,000 | £215,000 | |||||
| Combined Totals | £483,150,000 | £305,840,000 | £177,310,000 | |||||