Manchester United have third costliest squad in Europe behind rivals Manchester City and Real Madrid… but which other clubs make the top 20?
Premier League clubs dominate the European landscape in terms of
money spent on assembling their squads, with eight of the costliest
teams in Europe’s #Big 5 divisions coming from England.
Manchester City have spent £408.8million on transfer fees to put together Manuel Pellegrini’s table-topping squad, with record signing Kevin De Bruyne accounting for £54.5m of that.
Manchester United have spent £389.1m on their current squad and Chelsea have spent £297.1m. That trio are are all in the top five in Europe along with Spanish giants Real Madrid and oil-fuelled Paris Saint-German.
Liverpool - £251.1m and Arsenal -£222.7m both make the top five in
England the top 10 in Europe. The Premier League clubs spent almost
£900m on new players in the summer to take total outlay in transfers
spent on assembling their 20 current first-team squads to £2.8BILLION.
New analysis just published by experts from the Football Observatory in Switzerland shows City now have the most expensively assembled squad of any Premier League team.
Only Real Madrid across the whole of Europe’s #Big 5 leagues have assembled their squad at a greater cost. They have spent £428.5m on stars including Gareth Bale - the world’s most expensive footballer ever, and Cristiano Ronaldo. The full details are in the accompany tables below;
The outlay of all 98 clubs across the Premier League, Spain’s La Liga,
Germany’s Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A and France’s Ligue 1 can be seen
in full at the Observatory website.
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