Premier League: La Liga boss claims PL spending could 'destroy' the game

Premier League spending during the recently-closed summer transfer window hit record-setting levels – with the 20 English top-flights clubs splashing out a massive £1.9 billion between them on new recruits.

Chelsea (£253.79 million) and Manchester United (£216.30m) both broke the £200m barrier in expenditure, while a further seven clubs exceeded the £100m mark, per Transfermarkt.

After a feverish few months of transfer activity, Premier League sides ultimately spent more than the whole of La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga combined, according to BBC Sport.

The ever-growing gulf between spending in the Premier League and the rest of Europe is a matter that has got La Liga president Javier Tebas so riled up that he’s announced he plans to complain to UEFA about it in a recent presentation.

As Barcelona’s inability to register players over the past couple of years has proven, Tebas and his colleagues are committed to rigidly enforcing the La Liga salary cap – and the 60-year-old Spaniard wants similar control measures to be introduced in England.

“Premier League revenues are 1.8 times more than La Liga or Bundesliga but this negative amount is 20 times more than the Spanish league which has very good financial control,” Tebas began, per The Daily Mail, speaking at a meeting to discuss La Liga spending caps this season.

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“Something doesn’t make sense there, so what’s happening? There’s a lot of chequebooks coming out from clubs like Manchester City that sign a certain amount of players. Even the Championship lost €3bn over five years. The contributions of capital from club owners from Premier League clubs to compensate losses compared to La Liga.

“There