Premier League spent nearly $0.5 billion from the beginning of summer 2022
A month from the Champions League final on May 28 in Paris – the closing match of the 2021-2022 season, the clubs of europe's top five leagues have rushed into the transfer market to strengthen their strength and prepare for the new season.
The transfer market in the Premier League is open from June 10, while Ligue 1, La Liga, Bundesliga and Serie A will officially "open" on July 1. The transfer market has not officially opened in Europe, but these five tournaments spent a total of US $ 1.27 billion for 122 deals, as of June 25.
In particular, the Premier League continues to demonstrate financial strength when pouring into the exchange of 475 million USD, accounting for 37.11%. Ranked after Serie A with 300 million USD (23.53%), Bundesliga with 230 million USD (18.09%), La Liga with 150 million USD (11.73%) and Ligue 1 with 121 million USD ( 9.52%).
Marca Spanish newspaper said that with the current spending speed, the Premier League may roll or even exceed the US $ 1.37 billion milestone that they spent on the previous season transfer. The budget of the Premier League clubs surpasses other tournaments, and is the result of the equal income from the same ownership of the wealthy owners.
Owners such as Leicester City Ayawatt Srivaddanaprabba, Joe Lewis and Tottenham's Daniel Levy, Nassef Sawiris of Aston Villa, Arsenal's Stan Kroenke, Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Man City or Saudi Investment Fund Saudi Arabia (PIF) of Newcastle Always make sure there is a certain amount of capital to invest in building a squad when the transfer period is open.
Six of the 10 most expensive contracts from the beginning of the Summer belonged to the Premier League, including Darwin Nunez from Benfica to Liverpool with a prepaid fee of 80 million USD, Erling Haaland from Dortmund to Man City (63 million USD), Fabio Vieira from Porto to to Porto to Arsenal, Nayef Aguerd from Rennes to West Ham (41), Brenden Aaronson from Salzburg to Leeds (35), and Diego Carlos from Sevilla to Aston Villa (32).
However, the most expensive contract belongs to Real, the $ 85 million prepaid team to buy central midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni from Monaco. Without this deal, La Liga will be the least spending tournament with 65 million USD. Meanwhile, Barca has not recruited any rookie.
This is the result of La Liga trying to impose FFP financial rules in a much more strict way than other prizes. In Spain, each team is evaluated by experts to financial health, and then set the ceiling spending with the same salary limit.
The three most expensive contracts are Federico Chiesa bought by Juventus for $ 42 million, Nuno Mendes bought by PSG for $ 40 million, and Sadio Mane docked Bayern under the original value of $ 34 million. .
Liverpool is the most money club, when investing $ 90 million to sign a contract with Nunez, Fabio Carvalho and Calvin Ramsay. Real ranked second even though he only recruited Tchouameni and bought midfielder Antonio Rudiger in a free form. There are four Premier League clubs on the list of the 10 most spending teams, Man City (63 million USD), Leeds United (61), Aston Villa (57) and Arsenal (47).
Atalanta is the only Serie A representative to break into the top 10 with $ 44 million. Juventus ranked 11th ($42 million), Napoli 13th (38th), Sassuolo 16th (30th) and Hellas Verona 20th (20th).
However, the huge spending does not guarantee success in the European arena for Premier League clubs. Last season, Real Madrid won the Champions League, Eintracht Frankfurt won the Europa League and Jose Mourinho's Roma were the first champions of the Europa Conference League.
The 15 most spent clubs as of June 25: Liverpool ($90 million), Real (85), Man City (63), Leeds (61), Dortmund (58), Aston Villa (57), Bayern (53), Arsenal (47), Marseille (46), Atalanta (44), Juventus (42), PSG (40), Napoli (38), West Ham (37), Eintracht Frankfurt (36).
