Arsenal dominate top ten net spenders in Europe since 2020 but Spurs not far behind
Why 2020? Because this is the Covid era when transfer spending was supposed to be curbed. And five transfer windows is enough time to give us a pattern.
Jude Bellingham is worth every penny of his £103 million valuation
Richarlison is a statement signing for Spurs
Hammers close to signing Danjuma
Cristiano Ronaldo is a big problem for Manchester United
Aston Villa are showing their ambition this summer
Manchester United are fully going Dutch
Kimpembe heading to Chelsea?
Headline: Eight out of 10 of the biggest spenders are in the Premier League. Wow.
All the numbers are from transfermarkt.
10) Bayern Munich (net spend since 2020: £130.59m)
Biggest signing: Leroy Sane (£54m)
Biggest sale: Thiago (£19.8m)
Ryan Gravenberch and Sadio Mane have arrived this summer as Bayern look to improve on a frankly embarrassing season in which they only won the league from eight points and lost to Villarreal in the Champions League quarter-finals. Robert Lewandowski would quite like to leave now, thank you.
9) Liverpool (net spend since 2020: £137.42m)
Biggest signing: Darwin Nunez (£67.5m)
Biggest sale: Sadio Mane (£28.8m)
Some considerable money has been spent on Nunez but Liverpool have started to recoup at least some of that outlay on sales, with Takumi Minamino the first out of the door for real money as he joined Monaco for £13.5m. Don’t think they are on for the Net Spend Cup, mind.
8) Manchester United (net spend since 2020: £156.24m)
Biggest signing: Jadon Sancho (£76.5m)
Biggest sale: Daniel James (£26m)
Maybe we should give Manchester United some rare praise for exhorting that fee from Leeds for Daniel James. You would have to say that they have generally got very little bang for their buck, mind. And that’s before this