2023-09-02 19:24:44
In one of the latest market movements in the five major European leagues, the Paris Saint Germain made official after midnight the signing of the striker Randal Color for 95 million euros from the Eintracht Frankfurtwith which his investment shot up to 345 million this summer, only surpassed by the Chelseawith 464, and ahead of the 239 of the Manchester City or the 234 of the Arsenal.
“I think it has been an exceptional market. I would say outstanding. We could not have planned a better scenario,” he said this Saturday Luis Enrique Martinezthe coach of the Parisian team, the only one of the seven clubs that have spent the most in this summer market that is not English.
The other six belong to the ‘Premier League’. The highest English category is today unattainable. Its economic power does not admit of comparison neither in the Spanish LaLiga EA Sports nor in the German Bundesliga nor in the French Ligue 1 nor in the Italian Serie A.
The figures are conclusive: the Premier has invested in transfers this summer a total of 2,643.18 million eurosaccording to ‘Be Soccer Pro’.
None of the other four has gone beyond a billion. They haven’t come close. Neither the Spanish competition, whose investment has been the lowest of the five, with 419.9 million euros. Neither the German, with 748.73 million. Neither the Italian, with 780.5. Not even the French, with 865.6, of which 345.51 correspond to PSG in seven transfers: Kolo Muani (95), Manuel Ugarte (60), Ousmane Dembélé (50), Lucas Hernández (45), Bradley Barcola (45 ), Hugo Ekitike (28.5), on loan last year and bought now, and Kang in Lee (22).
Chelsea’s endless wallet
The only one who has paid more than PSG has been the Mauricio Pochettino’s Chelsealaunched to a transformation in the squad of 464.1 million euros (it is more than the entire Spanish LaLiga in this summer market), with the 133 million for Moisés Caicedo62 by Romeo Lavia, 60 by Christopher Nkunku, 45 by Alex Disasi, 45 by Cole Palmer, 37 by Nicolas Jackson, 23 by Robert Sánchez…
After Chelsea, who are not even playing in European competition this season and have summed up their first four league games with four of twelve points, after this Saturday’s 0-1 defeat against Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge, and PSG, appears Manchester City, with 239.1 million euros; Arsenal, with 234.9; Manchester United, with 206.7; Tottenham, with 193.6, and Liverpool, with 172.
They are the seven that have invested the most in incorporations for this course. Six are English.
What’s more, of the 15 clubs that have spent more than one hundred million euros in this transfer period in the five major European leagues, ten are from the Premier League. After those seven, four more are English: Newcastle, on their return to the Champions League, with 145.2; West Ham, with 135.8; Nottingham Forest, with 112.15, and Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth, with 108.8.
And the Barcelona?
Two German clubs also appear (Leipzig, with 157, and Bayern Munich, with 155); one from the Italian Serie A (Milan, with 112.5 million) and only one also from the Spanish League: Real Madrid, with 128.5 million, of which 103 were invested in Jude Bellingham, transferred from Borussia Dortmund and now the top scorer in the Spanish competition.
The most expensive signing has been Moisés Caicedo, for 133 million euros from Brighton to Chelsea, also in the Premier. The second, the same: Declan Rice, from West Ham to Arsenal for 116.6.
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The third is Jude Bellingham, for the aforementioned 103. Harry Kane, from Tottenham to Bayern Munich for one hundred, and Randal Kolo Muani, from Eintracht to PSG for 95, complete the top five positions in that sense in the summer market that ended this Friday .
Barça, for its part, which used to be at the top of these lists, has only spent 3.4 million. By Oriol Romeu to Girona. The rest of incorporations, assignments.
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