2023-06-20 12:21:47
A new summer market is approaching and the LaLiga teams are looking to release a good number of footballers. With the interest of Saudi Arabia to break the transfer market, the main fear of the Spanish clubs continues to be the Premier League. Thanks to its television rights distribution system, the English domestic competition reaches the summer of 2023 being much more competitive than the Spanish one. English clubs have sufficient solvency to undertake large outlays of money to make renowned signings. Spanish fans are more assiduous every day following the Premier from a distance due to the competitiveness of the average teams and the speed of their game. La Liga has a problem.
Last summer, the Premier League overtook LaLiga on the right. In the summer transfer market, the Spanish clubs found themselves helpless not being able to compete against the English in economic offer. The transfers that occurred to the British Isles were exaggeratedly inflated given the economic solvency with which most of their clubs have. In total, only in transfers between LaLiga and Premier, the English ended the cycle with 252 million in spending and only 63.5 in incomeclosing on February 1 with a negative difference of 189 million.
Casemiro and Isak, the most expensive signings
The main difference between the Premier League and LaLiga is the economic capacity that mid-table teams have to undertake large signings. The player from LaLiga who left the most money in his home club was Alexander Isak. Newcastle, who had finished the season 11th, paid 70 million for the Swedish striker. With the incorporation of him, Newcastle has improved its performance: it has finished fourth in the Premier League. Isak was injured, but after his return to the pitch, he signed 10 goals in 22 games. For their part, ‘las urracas’ released Federico Fernández, who arrived at Elche CF last summer. Newcastle, in total, He spent 185 million and only entered 13.
The same, 70 million, paid Manchester United for Carlos Henrique casemiro. The footballer arrived from Real Madrid and it was the most expensive transfer as far as LaLiga is concerned. But the red devils spent 95 million in Antony, 57 in Lisandro Martínez… In short, an abrupt expense to return to the Champions League. They spent, between the summer market and the winter market, a total of 243 million, and only 13 entered. Furthermore, after paying 70 million for Casemiro, Cavani and Telles arrived at LaLiga for free.
Casemiro and Joao Félix in a league match
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Chelsea was the team that spent the most money last season. 611 million of investment in players for only 67 of income. Aubameyang for 12 million and Joao Felix, with a transfer that cost 11 million, they packed their bags to settle in London. On the other hand, the blues let out for free Christensen, Rudiger and Marcos Alonso, valued at 40, 32 and 5 million respectively. They only received 500,000 euros from Valladolid for Kenedy.
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Another team that surprised last summer was the Aston Villa. After finishing the season 14th, spent 65 million on LaLiga players. The Birmingham team paid 31 million for diego carlos20 for Coutinho and by Alex Moreno they disbursed 13.5. In addition, Agustinsson’s half-season loan cost them half a kilo. Besides, Brighton paid 17.8 million to Villarreal for Pervis Estupiñán and let Florin Andone go free.
Raphinha, the only great signing of LaLiga
The only one that managed to face the English teams in this war of movements was FC Barcelona. The culé team paid 58 million euros for Raphinha, almost the same as what Manchester City spent on Haaland. Leeds United is the only English team along with Southampton that, after carrying out exchanges with LaLiga, settled the account positively. Those of Ellan Road entered 58 million, while the saints received 5.5 million in exchange for Oriol Romeu.
Raphinha celebrates the goal against Betis at FC Barcelona – Real Betis
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Now, a debate is opening in world football. How can the big leagues face the Premier? How are they going to compete this summer against a giant? In reality, the substance of the debate is whether the money that English teams spend on footballers -more than 3,000 million last season compared to 558 in LaLiga- They serve to make their teams much more competitive in Europe.
In the 2019/2020 season, the spending of the LaLiga teams and those of the Premier was even. The Spanish spent 1,539 million euros and the English, 1798, only 16% more. However, in the 2022/2023 season, they spent 551% of the money spent in Spain.
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