😱 Premier League spends as much as five leagues combined 📊 | OneFootball

The Premier League clearly dominated the summer market while some big clubs saved money (as seen in this article).

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The data, however, is incredible, because the English league alone spent practically the same amount as five other leagues combined: Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, and Saudi Pro League.

Data source: Transfermarkt.

Premier vs 5 leagues | 3.59 billion vs 3.64 billion

In the summer transfer window, the Premier League injected 3.59 billion euros into the market and placed 9 teams in the summer TOP 10 (the only exception being Leverkusen).

Meanwhile, the other major European leagues (Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, and La Liga) and the Saudi Pro League together spent 3.64 billion: only 50 million more than the English league alone.

Liverpool twice broke the league record with the signings of Wirtz (135M) and Isak (144M), the latter also becoming the fourth most expensive transfer in football history.

The difference also lies with the smaller clubs

To understand the economic power of the Premier League, it's not enough to look at the massive investments of Liverpool (half a billion) or Chelsea, but one must observe the spending of smaller clubs.

Sunderland would rank 1st in Serie A: 188 million spent. The biggest spender in Italy was Milan, with 164 million. Or consider this comparison: Juve invested 137 million, slightly less than Bournemouth.

In Germany, the situation is similar, with Bayern spending 89 million on incoming transfers: only 4 Premier League teams did "worse" in this window.

Or take Real Madrid, which spent 167 million, "only" 25 more than West Ham and significantly less than Nottingham Forest: newly qualified for the Champions League, which invested 236 million.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.