BARÇA ONLY SPENT €3.4M
Barça, the Champions League team that spends the least on transfers
FC Barcelona closed the transfer market with many additions, but with minimal spending. The culés will, in fact, begin the group stage of the Champions League as the team in the competition that invested the least in the transfer market
The FC Barcelona did an enormous work during the market of signings estival to configure his staff. To Xavi Hernández has remained him a very competitive changing room and, on the way, attained two key aims for the economy of the club: reduce considerably the mass salarial and spend the less possible in the traspaso of players. In fact, without explaining to a Vitor Roque that will land in January, the Barcelona in this alone summer have computed €3,4m of costs by the payment of the clause of Oriol Romeu.
The sportive direction achieved that the loans of Joao Cancel (Manchester City) and Joao Félix (Athletic of Madrid) were simple and without having to pay an economic compensation to the proprietary clubs. The posture of the players, that were exasperated for getting dressed of Barcelona this summer, was key to achieve convince to the two teams, that to his time denied to include an option of purchase for next summer.
That is the big negative point for the Barça, because in the stage that both footballers explode and Xavi want to that they remain in his changing room, will have to negotiate a price of traspaso that could be quite high. They assumed the risk, but was the only form that had to concretise the incorporation of both. The expectations are maximum, but is a subject that will touch when it was the moment.
Minimum investment for the Champions League
In any case, it resaltante is that to the Barça has remained him a very competitive staff and without having to disburse big quantities of money. In fact, the picture blaugrana is the team that less has spent to reinforce this summer of the 32 that will participate in the phase of groups of the UEFA Champions League, that will begin the next week.
As we mentioned before, the ones of the City Condal only have spent in the incorporation of Oriol Romeu, pertinent of the Girona. Of rest, in addition to the cessions of Joao Cancel and Joao Félix, it is necessary to stand out that so much Ílkay Gündogan like Iñigo Martínez landed free after finalising his agreements with the Manchester City and Athletic Club, respectively.
The clubs that more have spent in Europe
The difference of the blaugrana with the rest of clubs, in the majority of the cases, is abysmal. The Young Boys has remained in the second square with an investment of €3,9m, gone on down the Copenhaguen (€8,08m). By the contrary, the club that more invested during the summer was the Paris Saint-Germain with €320,4m after doing with the services of players like Kolo Muani (€95m), Ousmane Dembélé (€50,4m), Bradley Barcola (€42m), Lucas Hernández (€45m), Manuel Ugarte (€60m), Xavi Simons (€6m) or Kang-In Read (€22m).
In the second square has remained a Manchester City that has reinforced , also, very well to try repeat the attainments of the past season, in which they carried the triplete of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup. They spent around €241m in the incorporations of Matheus Nunes (€62m), Jéremy Doku (€60m), Josko Gvardiol (€90m) and Mateo Kovacic (€29,1m), whereas the podium closes it the Arsenal with €226m of costs in Declan Crimp (€116,6m), Jurrien Timber (€40m) and Kai Havertz (€70m).
