Barcelona spent over 1.2bn euros (£1bn) and received 613m euros (£524m), with the report citing the deal for Philippe Coutinho, who signed from Liverpool for £142m in 2018 before leaving for Aston Villa for £17m. He has since joined Al-Duhail on loan.
Barcelona also signed Ousmane Dembele for £135.5m before he was sold for £43.5m last summer to Paris St-Germain.
Just €121m spent, with only 2 signings over €20m. Dragusin to Spurs and Wharton to Palace. Apologies for Euros just taken rough estimates from Transfermarkt.
Looks like clubs are shitting it a bit.
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A case of the PL committing corporate suicide just to satisfy the Red Top Mafia & Spuds' unhinged lust of stopping City by any means necessary.
Now they've hammered the first nail in the PL's coffin, & the only winners are Spuds who've dragged the rest of the "Big Six" down to their austere, bargain basement level, whilst the chasing pack are scared shitless of investing to close the gap on them because of what's happened to Everton & Forest. Levy ain't fuckin stupid. ¯\_(⊙_ʖ⊙)_/¯
It won't be long until the other 15 PL clubs realise it's they who have the power, & it's they who stand to lose out the most, as they'll never again be allowed to invest to challenge, just as the legacy clubs intended.
Sky have had the shittest transfer window since the windows became a thing. It was hilarious watching their main transfer on deadline day being Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes to Ferrari!Tbh it has been staring these other clubs in the face regarding the " power base " in the PL unless their chairmen are actually braindead.
But the big change is the likes of Everton and Forest now being caught up in the PL restrictions caused by FFP or whatever they have re-branded their shite as.
If the other clubs in the PL don't wake up to the reality and stand up against the scheming redshirts and Spurs then there is no hope whatsoever for their future success through investment. And the self-serving cunts will continue to ride rough shod against all other clubs not in their cartel.
It ultimately harms the PL Brand. A lot of what happens off the pitch effects the league as much as what happens on it.Not sure this “harms” the league.
It harms the likes of Sky and their yellow ticker and harms the press as it’s harder to fill a back page.
Other than that, meh.