City top EPL spending on agents

English champions Manchester City led the way in spending on players' agents' fees in the year to the end of September 2012, according to figures published by the Premier League on Friday.
City, who also topped the previous year's list, paid 10.54 million pounds ($16.89 million) to agents in the latest period after spending 9.66 million from Oct. 1 2010 to Sept. 30 2011.
Liverpool were in second place, having laid out 8.60 million pounds, while the Premier league's bottom club Queens Park Rangers spent 6.82 million on agents, up from 2.5 million.
Tottenham Hotspur (6.6 million) were fourth on the list ahead of European champions Chelsea (6.5), Arsenal (5.6) and West Ham United (4.4) while Manchester United's spending on agents' fees fell to 3.7 million from 4.5.
The total of 77 million pounds spent on agents by the 20 top flight clubs in the 12 months to Sept. 30 rose 5.13 million from a year earlier, according to the figures on the Premier League's official website.