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Only in it for the money: the Premiership
The Financial Times doesn’t have sports pages but that’s not to say it’s not interested in sport
An article on 4th February looked at spending in the English football Premier League in January 2023.
The transfer window saw Premier League clubs spend 830 million Euros, almost double the previous record. English teams now make up for more than half of the spending in Europe’s Top 5 Leagues this season.
Picking up players from lower English leagues is in decline as the Premiership buys up the best of Europe. Portugal’s Benfica have received 300 million Euros from Premiership transfers in the last five years.
Chelsea spent 329 million Euros in January 2023 more than all the top tier sides in Spain, Italy, France and Germany combined.
Newly promoted clubs Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth and Fulham have spent a combined 300 million Euros so far this season. Forest’s 30 new players accounted for 164 million Euros of that.
La Liga Chief Javier Tebas the FT reports claimed English football is a ‘doped market’
Big Business it certainly is
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