Europes Biggest Net Spenders Since 2015

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Information taken from: https://www.football365.com/news/europes-biggest-net-spends-since-2015-liverpool-29th

12) Real Madrid. Net spend: £217.5m
Real have spent less than Chelsea over the last 5 yrs but their net spend dwarves the west Londoners because they invested rather a lot of money to appease Zidane last summer, but only shed a couple of first-teamers.

11) Wolves. Net spend: £225.2m
Wolves have spent the lion’s share of £190m since promotion – with Cutrone counting as the one expensive mistake

10) Brighton. Net spend: £229.54m
Primarily why Brighton dispensed with Hughton. Brighton want some bang for their buck but they might need to sell some players at some juncture to be a viable business as they have not sold a single player for more than £3.5m over last 5 yrs.

9) Everton. Net spend: £250.5m
The danger of lurching from manager to manager & philosophy to philosophy is laid bare by EFC actually spending more than Arsenal/Spurs over 5yrs of under-achievement. 14 players have arrived for over £20m in 5 years; how many of them can we file under ‘success’? And how many have a high re-sale value?

8) Juventus. Net spend: £288.5m
Only Monaco have sold players for more money since 2015 than Juventus, with eight players leaving the club for at least £20m in a spell which has seen them dominate Italian football. Money has of course been spent – most notably on Ronaldo but also on Dybala, Higuain & de Ligt – but there are high volumes of players going in and out of the club.

7) Arsenal. Net spend: £292.64m
They have sold players for around half Liverpool’s transfer income over the last five years. In this spell, they have lost Gnabry, Wilshere, Szczesny & Ramsey for pennies, with brief moments of professionalism to get decent money for the Ox, Walcott, Giroud & Iwobi. Meanwhile, 9 players have arrived for £20m or more and not a single one of those players is worth considerably more than Arsenal spent on them. When you’re not playing CL football, those figures are unsustainable in long term.

6) Inter Milan. Net spend: £312.3m
No real sales last summer – and a £140m splurge on Lukaku et al. – has seen Inter fly up this table in pursuit of a first title in ten years under Antonio Conte. And if the Italian has his way, they will be splurging once again in January with Eriksen likely to follow Ashley Young to Milan.

5) Barcelona. Net spend: £337.8m
Only six clubs across Europe have received more transfer income than selling club Barcelona over the last five years; that’s the Neymar effect. They have spent considerable amounts too – over £100m each on Coutinho, Dembele & Griezmann – so there is an awful lot of money flowing through that club. And there needs to be more in January as the new manager eyes a striker to replace the crocked Luis Suarez.

4) AC Milan. Net spend: £409.94m
Even Arsenal are better at recouping money from sales than AC Milan, whose horrendous mismanagement means they have bought badly and sold worse. There has been a change of focus – £90m was spent purely on young players last summer – but there is still an awful lot of expensive deadwood in a squad that remains on the outside of the Champions League cash cow.

3) Paris Saint-Germain. Net spend: £444.6m
After spending all of the money on Neymar & Mbappe, there has been relative parsimony at PSG, who actually made a transfer profit this season by selling a whole raft of squad players and spending moderate amounts on Diallo & Gueye. Their big-name signing – Mauro Icardi – arrived on loan, though he will cost £60m next summer if they choose to make the switch permanent.

2) Manchester United. Net spend: £483.8m
Wow. That is quite some era of underachievement. To only receive £20m or more for three players – Schneiderlin, di Maria & Lukaku – in five years is almost miraculous. Meanwhile, they have taken big hits on Kagawa, Di Maria himself, Nani, Van Persie, Depay and Ander Herrera and bought a grand total of 12 players for £20m or more. They’re basically like Everton but with more money. Not a compliment.

1) Manchester City. Net spend: £668.6m
Now that is a lot of money. Despite only having a record transfer of £62m, City have outspent every other European club bar Juventus over the last five years because they have bought a massive 16 players for over £20m. The difference between them and United is that they are actually playing those expensive footballers. 9 of the 16 started against Sheff Utd on Tuesday while another three were on the bench. Like United, they have struggled to sell for big money – only three players have gone for over £20m in five years – but they have won two PL titles

Other teams...

Chelsea (26th)
Liverpool (29th)
Tottenham (32nd)