The Premier League spent nearly half a billion USD from the beginning of the summer 2022
A month from the Champions League final on May 28 in Paris - the match closed the season 2021-2022, the clubs of the leading European tournament have plunged into the transfer market to 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 until July 1 officially "opened up". However, 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 or major shareholders such as Ayawatt Srivaddanaprabba (Leicester City), Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy (Tottenham), Nassef Sawiris (Aston Villa), Stan Kroenke (Arsenal), Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Man City) or head fund Saudi Arabia (Newcastle) always ensures a certain amount of capital to invest in building a squad every time the transfer is opened.
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 (Dortmund - Man City, 63 million USD), Fabio Vieira (Porto - Arsenal, $ 41 million), Nayef Aguerd (Rennes - West Ham, $ 41 million), Brenden Aaronson (Salzburg - Leeds, 35 million USD), and Diego Carlos (Sevilla - Aston Villa, $ 32 million).
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 a consequence of La Liga imposing FFP financial fair play laws in a much stricter way than other leagues. In Spain, each team is assessed by experts for financial health, then sets a cap on spending and salary cap.
The other three most expensive signings are Federico Chiesa, who was bought by Juventus for $42 million, Nuno Mendes was bought by PSG for $40 million, and Sadio Mane arrived at Bayern in an initial deal worth $34 million.
Liverpool were the club that spent the most money, investing $90 million to sign Nunez, Fabio Carvalho and Calvin Ramsay. Real finished second despite only recruiting Tchouameni and buying centre-back Antonio Rudiger on a free. There are four Premier League clubs on the list of the top 10 spenders: Man City ($63 million), Leeds United ($61 million), Aston Villa ($57 million) and Arsenal ($47 million).
Atalanta is the only Serie A representative to break into the top 10 with $ 44 million. Juventus ranked 11th ($42 million), Napoli 13th ($38 million), Sassuolo 16th ($30 million) and Hellas Verona 20th ($20 million).
However, the huge spending does not guarantee success in the European arena for Premier League clubs. Last season, Real Madrid won the Champions League, Eintracht Frankfurt won the Europa League and Jose Mourinho's Roma were the first champions of the Europa Conference League.
The 15 most pepper clubs as of June 25: Liverpool ($ 90 million), Real (85 million USD), Man City (63 million USD), Leeds ($ 61 million), Dortmund (US $ 58 million), Aston Villa (57 million USD), Bayern ($ 53 million), Arsenal (47 million USD), Marseille ($ 46 million), Atalanta (US $ 44 million), Juventus (US $ 42 million), PSG (40 million USD), Napoli ( 38 million USD), West Ham (37 million USD), Eintracht Frankfurt ($ 36 million).
