18th in Net Spend, You’ll Never Sing That

[KingsX]

The latest weekly report from football-observatory.com ranks current big-5 league clubs by net transfer spending over the last ten seasons. Manchester United tops the table with a negative balance over 1 billion euros, ahead of Manchester City and Paris St-Germain. Fourteen English clubs are in the top 20. 

 

NUFC showed the shape of things to come, rocketing from nowhere near the list up to 15th just on one (over €100 million) January window.  The shocker is that Real Madrid didn’t make the list.

 

Lille showed the largest positive balance of €349 million. The top three of current big-5 league clubs having generated the most incomes from transfers since 2012/13 are Chelsea, Monaco and Atlético Madrid. The majority (52 of 98) clubs showed a positive net spend, but only one (Brentford) in the PL.

 

 

This isolates investment in players from the training ground and stadium development.  As we are ranked the 19th most valuable club, it shows player investment has kept pace with the club’s appreciation as an asset.

 

* CIES note on their data:  “Gathered with the greatest care through the cross-checking of all possible sources, whether official or unofficial, the data includes eventual add-on fees included in the deals, regardless of their actual payment. Within the limits of available information, incomes deriving from sell-on fees are also taken into account.”

[Alf Bentley]

12th highest net spend in England.

 

So, as we stand 10th in the PL, we're over-achieving. 

 

[Foxes96]

Predictably Everton and Villas net spend, winning a total of naff all makes for grim reading. 4th and 5th highest net spend in the premier league respectively. Especially considering Villa got relegated and spent 3 years in the second tier during that time period.
 

Was surprised how poorly West Ham also fared in this metric, (7th in EPL) although I guess they’ve only really bucked their ideas up the last couple of years. Oh and also still won nothing. 
 

Based on this table we have performed very well to have won the Championship, Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield and 3 European tours in that time period. Although I guess we already knew that. 

[MonkeyTennis?]

How the hell did Chelsea 'earn' £1.2 billion?

[st albans fox]

4 minutes ago, MonkeyTennis? said:

How the hell did Chelsea 'earn' £1.2 billion?

Includes 3 billion barrels of Russian oil 

[coolhandfox]

5 minutes ago, MonkeyTennis? said:

How the hell did Chelsea 'earn' £1.2 billion?

They are great a selling young talent; they sold 100m just this summer. 

 

Add the crazy 135m they got for Hazard, and you are a 5th of the way there already 

[Solihullfox]

The most amazing thing there is that Spurs have sold players for 677 million euros bear in mind the total lack of success those players have been party to.

Edited 8 February 2022 by Solihullfox
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[Guest kristianity77]

have we really spent 661 million in 10 seasons?  Thats over 60 milllion a season on players.  That seems very high to me.   That cant be correct, can it?

[ealingfox]

37 minutes ago, kristianity77 said:

have we really spent 661 million in 10 seasons?  Thats over 60 milllion a season on players.  That seems very high to me.   That cant be correct, can it?

 

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[leicesterseddon]

21 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

12th highest net spend in England.

 

So, as we stand 10th in the PL, we're over-achieving. 

 

This is actually how most other fans/national media see the situation though, isn’t it? 

[moore_94]

6 hours ago, kristianity77 said:

have we really spent 661 million in 10 seasons?  Thats over 60 milllion a season on players.  That seems very high to me.   That cant be correct, can it?

Probably not far off, they have also included add ons in their calculations whether they have been met or not

 

The below may be slightly out but will only be a few million either way for the total figures

 

12/13 - £5m (de Laet, James, Wood, Vardy, Knockaert)

13/14 - £0.5m (Mahrez)

14/15 - £20m (Ulloa, Kramaric, Simpson, Lawrence)

15/16 - £45m (Okazaki, Kante, Inler, Benalouane, Amartey, Gray, Huth)

16/17 - £83m (Slimani, Musa, Ndidi, Mendy, Kapustka, Zieler)

17/18 - £75m (Iheanacho, Silva, Iborra, Maguire, Jakupovic, Diabate)

18/19 - £103m (Maddison, Pereira, Soyuncu, Benkovic, Ghezzal, Ward, Evans)

19/20 - £94m (Tielemans, Perez, Praet, Justin)

20/21 - £50m (Fofana, Castagne)

21/22 - £60m (Daka, Soumare, Vestergaard)

Total - £535.5m / ~€635m

Edited 8 February 2022 by moore_94

[sacreblueits442]

13 hours ago, ealingfox said:

 

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.....The earned column needs to be clarified if it contains monies coming in player sales.!!!

Does it include monies earned from league positions, if the Premier is worth £100m a season, surely those figures are low.

 

[st albans fox]

3 minutes ago, sacreblueits442 said:

.....The earned column needs to be clarified if it contains monies coming in player sales.!!!

Does it include monies earned from league positions, if the Premier is worth £100m a season, surely those figures are low.

 

It’s transfer nett spends 

 

only player purchases/sales