Top leagues spendings

With the summer transfer window having come to an end in the major European leagues, Goal takes a look at which competition spent the most
La Liga can consider itself to be one of the winners of the summer transfer window as the only of the top-five leagues to record a significant profit ahead of the 2013-14 campaign, which was in stark contrast to the mammoth deficit that the Premier League racked up.

Despite Real Madrid smashing the world-record transfer fee with the arrival of Gareth Bale from Tottenham for €100 million and Barcelona spending €57m on Brazil international Neymar, the Spanish top flight still recorded a positive balance of €102.6m.

The main reason for La Liga's profitable summer is the departure of Gonzalo Higuain and Mesut Ozil, while Radamel Falcao, Roberto Soldado, Alvaro Negredo, Jesus Navas and Thiago Alcantara all brought in big fees, too.

In second position, Serie A recorded a modest €3.1m profit after a busy summer window which saw plenty of new arrivals to the Italian top flight.

Napoli, for example, brought in players such as the aforementioned Higuain plus Raul Albiol, Dries Mertens and Jose Callejon.

Other big-name players to come to Italy include the likes of Mario Gomez, Kevin Strootman and Carlos Tevez, while Stevan Jovetic, Marquinhos and Erik Lamela all said farewell to Serie A.

 
Elsewhere, the Bundesliga had to settle for a €58.7m loss following the arrival of players such as Thiago (Bayern Munich), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan (both Borussia Dortmund). The exit of players such as Andre Schurrle and Gomez were not enough to make up for the heavy spending of both title candidates.

Unsurprisingly, Ligue 1 saw plenty of cash leave the country due to the Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco's powerful stance on the transfer market.

PSG lured the likes of Cavani and Marquinhos to France, while Claudio Ranieri's side secured the services of Falcao, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Joao Moutinho and James Rodriguez among others.

The most notable departures include Aubameyang, Etienne Capoue, Younes Belhanda and Josuha Guilavogui.

However, the Premier League take the title of this summer's big spenders, with a large part of their expenditure coming on deadline day as Arsenal snapped up Ozil.

Manchester City also spent their fair share of money, though, as they lured Fernandino, Jovetic, Negredo and Navas to England, while Chelsea brought in Schurrle and Willian.

Liverpool (Mamadou Sakho, Iago Aspas and Tiago Ilori) and Tottenham (Lamela, Soldado, Paulinho and Christian Eriksen) both spent big as well in their attempts to win Champions League qualification and even Southampton spent over €30m on foreign signings as they snapped up Victor Wanyama, Dejan Lovren and Pablo Osvaldo.

On the other hand, high-profile departures include the inevitable Bale, Tevez and Gervinho, but Premier League sides in general recouped very little money from transfers abroad compared to their spending.


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COnclusions:
La Liga is doing very bad, from that 390 millions expenditure, 170 millions are real madrid's...
EPL is incredibly rich..
Serie A has very healthy finances, they spend as much as they have from sellings..
In Ligue 1, the Oil clubs are making fun of ffp..
Bundesliga- balanced..

halamadrid2 wrote:teams in laliga buy players from other spanish teams for managable prices see Benat etc they also have a host of lower league teams they can pick players from

I dont think you need alot of cash to have a good summer. Atleti showed this pretty clearly. what you do need is someone with clear ideas of what they need

Agree, as we can see Borussia Dortmund..

But did they bought good enough players to replace Negredo, Navas, Soldado, LLorente, Illaramendi, Isco, Kondogbia, Falcao etc??

New TV deal is crazy, Southampton etc forking out.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2013/09/04/4235394/real-madrid-tottenham-the-biggest-spending-clubs-in-the?ICID=HP_FT_3

Biggest spending clubs in the Transfer Market this year.

Abramovich wrote:New TV deal is crazy, Southampton etc forking out.

Southampton's owner is a billionaire

S wrote:http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2013/09/04/4235394/real-madrid-tottenham-the-biggest-spending-clubs-in-the?ICID=HP_FT_3

Biggest spending clubs in the Transfer Market this year.

That article (reliable as it may be coming from that site) is a perfect example of why NET SPEND is a worthwhile statistic to look at.

Is this like the first season in ages that Arsenal have a positive net spend

Speaking of which of the last 5 years we have a negative net spend

Lack of ambition makes my stomach turn, but sadly i know the exact reason why.

LOL, the way some people view this information is laughable.

To make the conclusion that La Liga is "doing very bad" because for the most part the teams acted responsibly and are able to strengthen from within there own league and there youth teams is just insane.

The massive overpaying on a lot of the players who left La Liga gave the teams no choice but to sell. I mean if someone is going to offer 30 mill for Illaramendi, 30+ for Soldado, 20+ for Navas, 40+ for Higgy, 60+ for Falcao when you replace him with David Villa for 3 million, 50+ for Ozil you say thank you take the money and run to the bank.

The difference between the leagues is German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian teams can take the money they receive and milk it for years to replace there talent and further set up there youth system. They don't feel the need for a bottom table team to spend 30 million so they can finish 12th. They would rather have a couple diamonds come up in a couple years.

I know that most of the posters on here are pretty young and probably don't remember when having actual talent come up from your youth system and having a good percentage of your teams players come from your own country was looked upon as a great thing and the way to run a stable football club.

People get caught up in the money so much that a lot of EPL fans just wanted there team to spend just for the heck of it. Spending was first and who they got for the money was second.

A lot of Fantastic players went to the EPL but it continued the trend that to get world class player or close to world class players the EPL in general has to go to other leagues to buy them and cannot grow them so they are always going to pay over the odds for them and it's just not sustainable especially if they fall out of the CL.

Some perspective is needed in this thread as when the shine of buying a new player wears off and they get injured or don't adapt to the league or never were worth the money in the first place I think people will feel a lot different about this transfer window as it's the craziest one I've ever seen.