Manchester City have the most expensive squad in Europe with an estimated price tag of £917m and narrowly edge Manchester United’s valuation of £863m.
CIES Football Observatory has crunched the numbers just days after the closure of the summer transfer window and ranked teams in Europe’s ‘big five’ leagues according to the transfer fees paid to assemble their squads.
The spending power of clubs in the Premier League still remains unmatched as far as European football is concerned. Each summer’s transfer window, clubs in the English top-flight smash the division’s transfer spending record and the recently ended one was no exception.
The period saw the likes of Darwin Nunez, Erling Haaland, Antony dos Santos, Alexander Isak, Wesley Fofana, among others all completing big money moves to clubs in the competition.
City didn’t have one of their more lucrative spending summers but still invested more than £100m in the signings of Erling Haaland, Kalvin Phillips, Sergio Gomez and Manuel Akanji.
Jack Grealish is the most expensive member of City’s squad, costing £100m from Aston Villa in the summer of 2021. Key players Kevin De Bruyne and Ruben Dias cost £68m and £61m respectively.
The study by CIES Football Observatory found that Manchester City have so far invested the most cash (£917m) to bolster their ranks, followed by rivals Manchester United, whose squad has cost £863m to put together. (possible add-ons included).
Paris St-Germain made the podium, with their squad valued at $935M while Real Madrid was ranked fifth with $782M. Chelsea finished in the top five with a squad valuation of $776M with three more English Premier League teams; Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham, featuring in the top 10 in the sixth, seventh and ninth positions respectively.
Despite getting Angel Di Maria and Paul Pogba in on free transfers this summer, Juventus was ranked as the side with the ninth most-expensive squad. Barcelona, with their massive recruitment this summer, surprisingly finished in 10th position with their squad valued at $575M.
SQUAD COST (INC. ADD-ONS)
- Manchester City £917m
- Manchester United £863m
- Chelsea £759m
- PSG £730m
- Liverpool £669m
- Real Madrid £621m
- Barcelona £539m
- Arsenal £460m
- Tottenham £447m
- Atletico Madrid £432m
Click here to view the full list published by the CIES Football Observatory.
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