Norwich City paid £8,667,246 in agents’ fees for the past two transfer windows, according to new official figures published by the FA.

City’s spending ranked the 15th highest in the Premier League, for the period from February 2 2021 to January 31 2022.

That spanned two transfer windows following promotion to the Premier League, although the Canaries did not make any signings in the most recent transfer window.

City did embark on the club’s biggest transfer window outlay since Stuart Webber arrived in 2017, with the sporting director in October estimating the total outlay could reach £70m.

The likes of Milot Rashica, Josh Sargent and Christos Tzolis arrived as part of a recruitment drive Webber labelled the 11th biggest across Europe last summer.

Billy Gilmour, Mathias Normann and Ozan Kabak were also signed on season long loans, with options to purchase both Normann and Kabak.

Emi Buendia was the headline departure to Aston Villa in a club record sale, although Timm Klose, Moritz Leitner, Marco Stiepermann and Tom Trybull also left Carrow Road.

City’s figure includes liabilities for payments to agents connected to deals prior to this period. By way of comparison, Norwich spent £6.8m on agents’ fees in the previous 12 month period.

The total outlay by Premier League clubs on agents’ fees for the latest accounting period was £272m. Manchester City topped the table (£35m) of expenditure on payments to agents - or intermediaries as they are officially known – which now have to be published by national associations under Fifa rules governing transfers.

The amounts include payments made by clubs on behalf of players.

By way of a comparison the champions’ latest reported figure compared with a total spend in the Championship of £44.3m.

League One Ipswich spent £779,739 in the same period.

The figures for National League King's Lynn have also been published by the FA. The Linnets spent £1,200 on agents' fees, compared to £1,400 in the previous reporting period, out of a total of £576,528 in the National League.