Premier League clubs have already spent more than £1bn in the transfer window, but are expected to only get busier.

Morgan Rogers joined Chelsea for £117m just over two years after costing Aston Villa £16m from Middlesbrough Chelsea, Manchester City and Tottenham have all splashed out on players costing £100m or more, each a record-breaking deal. Sandro Tonali's £100m move to Spurs was eclipsed by Elliot Anderson's £116m switch to Manchester City and that was followed by Chelsea setting a new record for a British player by signing Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa for £117m. The spending follows on from a winter window in which clubs spent 2.2bn euros worldwide. But the financial muscle of the Premier League is unmatched. So, with billions at stake, how do clubs prepare to get moves over the line? In February, about 100 club officials, scouts and agents gathered at Villa Park for a networking event. Over coffee and pastries, in William McGregor's in the Trinity Road Stand, representatives from clubs including Liverpool, West Ham, Birmingham, Preston, Derby, Aston Villa and Manchester City chatted, along with agents, to prepare for the summer and debrief the winter. In the afternoon, Villa's head of emerging talent and loans Adam Henshall gave a presentation on how the club oversees its loaning out of players - outlining the data, the risk and reward elements they take into consideration before sending their young talent out.