Big-5 Weekly Post on transfer fees - n°60

The 60th issue of the Big-5 Weekly Post analyses the differences in the transfer fees paid by teams to make up their current squad. The data include money spent so far in the winter transfer window. While the expenditure of Premier League teams to sign their current players is 2.7 billion euro, this figure is "only" 849 million in the German Bundesliga.

At club level, Real Madrid has invested the most to make up its current squad (536 million euro), followed by Manchester City (435) and Manchester United (395). In the remaining leagues, at the top of the tables are Paris St-Germain (366), Bayern Munich (233) and Juventus (214). Ten clubs spent less than 10 million euro to sign their current squad members. The lowest transfer expenditure in England was recorded for Crystal Palace (24 million euro).

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