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Signing Thiago Have Liverpool fans in a frenzyBut how does your otherwise modest spending compare to the previous 10 Premier League champions?
2019: Manchester City: £ 123.3 million (4th highest PL spend)
Rodri (£ 62.8 million, Atlético Madrid), Joao Cancelo (£ 60 million, Juventus), Angelino (£ 5.3 million, Feyenoord), Scott Carson (loan, Derby)
Pep Guardiola launched his quest for a third consecutive Premier League title by breaking City’s transfer record as part of a £ 128.5 million spend. City signed Rodri with a view to eventually replacing Fernandinho, while Pep also found time to indulge in his favorite hobby: spending large sums of money on the wing.
Rodri had an unpretentious start to life in the Premier League, while Cancelo turned out to be a bit of a fiasco and The city was trying to change it in January. At least Angelino recovered something from a terrible start but City failed to tackle the gaping hole in center-back and were drowned in Liverpool dust, even though Jurgen Klopp decided not to strengthen their first eleven at all.
Finished: 2nd
2018: Manchester City – £ 62.25 million (11th highest PL spend)
Riyad Mahrez (£ 60 million, Leicester), Philippe Sandler (£ 2.25 million, PEC Zwolle), Daniel Arzani (undisclosed, Melbourne City).
As well as hiring a couple of youngsters to add to their loan army, City felt it was only necessary to make a senior recruit after reaching Guardiola’s first Premier League title. But getting Mahrez through the door was no easy job and required a record fee from the club, surpassing the previous benchmark set when Aymeric Laporte arrived in early 2018. It was enough to keep Liverpool at bay, alone.
Finished: Champions
2017: Chelsea – £ 202 million (second highest PL spend)
Willy Caballero (free, Man City), Antonio Rudiger (£ 34m, Rome), Tiemoue Bakayoko (£ 40m, Monaco), Alvaro Morata (£ 70m, Atlético de Madrid), Davide Zappacosta (£ 23m, Turin) and Danny Drinkwater ( £ 35m, Leicester)
Chelsea tried to strengthen itself from a position of authority, but it turned out to be a catastrophic window for the Blues and Antonio Conte, even if they made £ 109 million from sales. They broke their transfer record, one of 12 clubs to do so in 2017, to sign Morata, but only after Manchester United beat Romelu Lukaku. Morata, Bakayoko and Drinkwater were disastrous signings, and only Rudiger still has a role to play in Frank Lampard’s first team.
Finished: 5th
2016: Leicester – £ 69.1 million (7th highest PL spend)
Islam Slimani (£ 29m, Sporting Lisboa), Ahmed Musa (£ 16.6m, CSKA Moscow), Nampalys Mendy (£ 13m, Nice), Bartosz Kapustka (£ 7.5m, Krakow), Ron-Robert Zieler (£ 3m, Hannover) , Luis Hernández (free, Sporting Gijón), Raúl Uche (undisclosed, Rayo Vallecano).
When Leicester began making initial plans for their recruiting in 2015/16, they couldn’t have expected to make it into the summer as champions. Even so, they had a surprise. The Foxes broke their transfer record three times with Mendy, Musa and Slimani, but the frivolity didn’t work out for a club that built its impressive title success by discovering cheap talent like Mahrez and N’Golo Kante. Only Mendy can be seen as more than a waste of good money, and Claudio Ranieri paid with his work as the Foxes fought a relegation battle amid a good run to the Champions League quarterfinals.
Finished: 12th
2015: Chelsea: £ 62.5 million (4th highest PL spend)
Nathan (£ 3.15 million, Atlético Paranaense), Radamel Falcao (loan, Monaco), Asmir Begovic (£ 8 million, Stoke), Danilo Pantic (free, Partizan Belgrade), Baba Rahman (£ 17 million, Augsburg), Pedro (£ 21 million, Barcelona), Kenedy (£ 6.7 million, Fluminense), Papy Djilobodji (£ 2.7 million, Nantes), Michael Hector (£ 4 million, Reading).
Looking back, perhaps we shouldn’t have been so surprised by Chelsea’s atrocious title defense in 2015/16. The champions were serving on December 16 when José Mourinho was fired after a summer in which the Blues tried to be too smart. Apart from Pedro, who proved to be a canny signing, Chelsea targeted young talents like Baba Rahmann and Papy Djilobodji. They bet Falcao failed at Man Utd as a fluke. Unfortunately, it was not.
Completed: 10th
2014: Manchester City – £ 53 million (6th highest PL spend)
Bacary Sagna (free, Arsenal), Fernando (£ 12 million, Porto), Willy Caballero (£ 4.4 million, Malaga), Bruno Zuculini (undisclosed, Racing Club), Eliaquim Mangala (£ 32 million, Porto), Frank Lampard (loan, NYCFC)
Manuel Pellegrini curbed City spending due to FFP (when that was one thing) but the champions still spent £ 32 million on Mangala. “He has all the mental, physical, technical and tactical attributes to become one of the best defenders in Europe.” Franco Baresi, it was not.
Finished: 2nd
2013: Manchester United – £ 29.5 million (8th largest LP spending)
Guillermo Varela (approximately £ 2 million, Peñarol), Marouane Fellaini (£ 27.5 million, Everton)
United’s first window after Ferguson saw David Moyes go after players like Gareth Bale, Toni Kroos and Cesc Fabregas across Europe, only to pay £ 4 million more for Fellaini on the day of the deadline than he could have done. just a few weeks before. This was also the summer that Moyes chose to pass Thiago Alcantara, which we will surely hear over and over in the coming weeks …
Finished: 7th
2012: Manchester City – £ 58 million (5th largest LP spending)
Jack Rodwell (£ 12 million, Everton), Scott Sinclair (£ 8 million, Swansea), Maicon (£ 5 million, Inter Milan), Richard Wright (free, Preston), Matija Nastasic (£ 17 million, Fiorentina), Javi Garcia (£ 16 million, Benfica)
City resisted the temptation to celebrate their first Premier League title by continuing their extravagance from previous summers, with 2012 representing their lowest transfer investment in five years. And it wasn’t money well spent. Maicon had gotten over it, while Rodwell and Sinclair never reached it. Nastasic cost City £ 12 million plus Stefan Savic, and Fiorentina certainly got the best ending to that particular deal.
Finished: 2nd
2011: Manchester United – £ 51 million (3rd largest LP spending)
Phil Jones (£ 17 million, Blackburn), Ashley Young (£ 16 million, Aston Villa), David De Gea (£ 18 million, Atlético Madrid)
United can’t say they didn’t have a good longevity from their signings nine years ago when the Phil Jones era began at Old Trafford. His priority was to find a replacement for retired Paul Scholes (he replaced himself six months later) and Edwin van der Sar, who found himself in the form of an abandoned-looking young Spaniard who would become the best goalkeeper in the world. . But David De Gea’s mistakes in his first season proved costly as United lost their title in the closing seconds of the campaign by a very narrow margin to their closest neighbors.
Finished: 2nd.
2010: Chelsea – £ 24 million (second-largest LP spending)
Yossi Benayoun (£ 6 million, Liverpool), Ramires (£ 18 million, Benfica)
Certainly compared to Manchester City, Roman Abramovich kept the powder dry after Chelsea’s double with Carlo Ancelotti in 2009/10. Benayoun was a cheap addition to the team, while Ramires was bought with one eye on the future and another on getting one at Manchester United, who were also reluctant to spend. However, the Blues went big the following January, shedding over £ 70 million at Liverpool and Benfica for Fernando Torres and David Luiz respectively.
Finished: 2nd
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