Manchester United are third costliest squad in Europe behind rivals Manchester City and Real Madrid but which other clubs make the top 20?
Premier League clubs dominate the European landscape in terms of money spent on assembling their squads, with eight of the costliest teams in Europe’s #Big 5 divisions coming from England.
Manchester City have spent £408.8million on transfer fees to put together Manuel Pellegrini’s table-topping squad, with record signing Kevin De Bruyne accounting for £54.5m of that.
Manchester United have spent £389.1m on their current squad and Chelsea have spent £297.1m. That trio are all in the top five in Europe along with Spanish giants Real Madrid and oil-fuelled Paris Saint-German.
Top 20 Costliest sqaud list in the EPL
Liverpool - £251.1m and Arsenal -£222.7m both make the top five in England the top 10 in Europe. The Premier League clubs spent almost £900m on new players in the summer to take total outlay in transfers spent on assembling their 20 current first-team squads to £2.8billion.
New analysis published by experts from the
Football Observatory in Switzerland shows City now have the most expensively assembled squad of any Premier League team.
Only Real Madrid across the whole of Europe’s #Big 5 leagues have assembled their squad at a greater cost. They have spent £428.5m on stars including Gareth Bale - the world’s most expensive footballer ever, and Cristiano Ronaldo. The full details are in the tables below;
Top 20 Costliest sqads in Europe 2015
The outlay of all 98 clubs across the Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Germany’s Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A and France’s Ligue 1 can be seen in full at the O
bservatory website.