BURNLEY Football Club have revealed they spent in excess of £1.3million on agent fees during their Premier League season and return to the Championship.

The Clarets, who from October 1, 2014 and September 30 this year, signed Fredrik Ulvestad on a free transfer from Aalesund, Michael Keane from Manchester United, Matt Lowton for £1million from Aston Villa, Rouwen Hennings for £3m from Karlsruhe and £6m record signing Andre Gray from Brentford and free transfer Joey Barton - among others.

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Burnley also signed a number of existing players on new deals, including goalkeeper and captain Tom Heaton and midfielders Scott Arfield and David Jones, while key players left the club.

Danny Ings left at the end of his deal, Kieran Trippier joined Tottenham Hotspur for £3m and captain Jason Shackell moved to Derby County for £4m. There was also the quick turnaround of Jelle Vossen, who left soon after joining the club from Genk, joining Club Brugge, with the Clarets not losing money on a player they spent around £2.5m on.

Transfer dealings and new contracts led to a total of £1,363,860.74 being paid to agents in that period of October 2014 to September 2015.

That is an increase of over £650,000 on the previous year, when Burnley won promotion to the Premier League.

And it is a small fraction of the overall Premier League spend on agents fees last season, which reached £130m - an increase of £15m on the previous 12 months.

Liverpool, who signed Ings from Burnley at the end of his Turf Moor deal and have yet to pay compensation for the 23-year-old, topped the figures with just over £14.3m.

Manchester United were not far behind with almost £13.9m, followed by Manchester City (£12,429,380) then Chelsea (£11,961,206) and Arsenal (£11,928,584).

Burnley’s figures were the seventh highest in the Championships, with Cardiff leading the way with £2,828,133, followed by Fulham (£2,735,336) and Reading (£2,391,666).

Rotherham spent the least with £185,430.

A Clarets statement read: “These payments are made public pursuant to the requirements of the FA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries.”