The Premier, the tournament that 'minimizes' European tournaments with more than 2,000 million euros in purchases, resumes competitions.

Neither the pandemic nor Brexit have 'slowed down' spending in the Premier League market . In the summer in which 'normality' returned, the English League, thirsty for signings and with a portfolio full from its millions of television shows (nearly 3,000 euros were distributed to its 20 clubs in 2021-22), swept away, surpassing all the records. The 2,178 'kilos', according to data from 'Transfermarkt', in transfers from all of 2017-18 and the 1,617 from that summer are history. Also the 1,678 (1,337 in the summer market) last year. At the moment the ceiling is marked by the more than 2,200 (and rising) of this summer window.

Various data show the muscle of 'football'. Of the 10 teams that have invested the most in footballers, seven ( Chelsea, (279 kilos), Manchester United (238), West Ham (182), Tottenham (170), Nottingham Forest (162), Manchester City (139, 5) and Wolverhampton (137) are English. Only Barcelona (153), PSG (147.5) and Bayern (137.5) make it onto this list. And three other teams ( Newcastle, Arsenal and Leeds ) also made it past the 100 (136, 132 and 105.6) leading 10 clubs! to exceed one hundred million players.The combined spending of the other major leagues is almost the same as that of the British championship.

21 players signed by Forest!

All in a market in which several teams have made the most expensive addition in their history. Isak (Newcastle, 70 kilos), Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest, 29.5), Lewis-Potter (Brentford, 19), Aaronson (Leeds, 32.8), Nunes (45, Wolverhampton) and Paquetá (West Ham, 43) have 'broken' their piggy bank, Forest being a unique case: they have signed 21 players! Gibbs-White, Awoniyi, Neco Williams, Dennis, Mangala, Niakhaté, Biancone, O'Brien, Freuler, Richards, Lodi, Hwang, Toffolo, Aguilera, Lingard, Kouyaté, Hennessey and Henderson touched down at the City Ground before a 'deadline' day' in which they put the red shirt on Boly (Wolverhampton), Bowler (Blackpool) and Badé (Rennes). 17 footballers also left and Bowler, Hwang and Aguilera have gone on loan. Crazy.
Chelsea commands the market

Todd Boehly's post-Abramovich 'blues' have 'thrown' the house out the window (279 million) by closing the hole left in their defense by the free marches of Rüdiger (Real Madrid) and Christensen (Barcelona) with Fofana (Leicester, 80.4) and Koulibaly (Naples, 38) as well as Cucurella (65.3, Brighton), Sterling (City, 56.2), Chukwuemeka (Aston Villa, 18), Slonina (Chicago, 9.09)... Many arrivals, with the late confirmation of Aubameyang (Barcelona, ​​12), the final 'bomb' they needed after the goodbye of Lukaku (Inter) and Werner (RB Leipzig), and the arrival of Zakaria on loan. They needed a '9' and it came on the horn. Tuchel has new pieces to compete for everything.

The five clubs that have spent the most in the Premier.

    Chelsea: €279 million
    Manchester United: 238 million euros
    West Ham: €182 million
    Tottenham: €170 million
    Nottingham Forest: €162 million

Manchester United (238) has also come up . He signed Antony (the most expensive addition of the summer for 95 fixed plus five in Ajax variables), Casemiro (Real Madrid, 70), Lisandro Martínez (Ajax, 57), Malacia (Feyenoord, 15), Eriksen (Brentford, free) and the transfer of Dubravka (Newcastle). Ten Hag, in its premiere at the Theater of Dreams, will have wickers to compete after losing to Pogba (Juve), Matic (Rome), Cavani (Valencia), Lingard and Henderson (Forest), Telles (Seville)... The who stays is Cristiano Ronaldo.

Manchester City, sixth in investment of footballers in the Premier, made the star signing of the market in England with Haaland . The 60 'kilos' paid to Dortmund and his nine goals in five games confirm that he is a winning addition. Kalvin Phillips (Leeds, 49), Sergio Gómez (Anderlecht, 13), Ortega (Arminia, free), Julián Álvarez (River Plate) and the late arrival of Akanji (Dortmund, 17.5) round out the market for a champion (139.5) who has lost Gabriel Jesus, Sterling, Zinchenko...
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The Brazilian (52.2) and the Ukrainian (35) have joined an Arsenal that leads the Premier with full. Arteta has also continued to shape his squad with Fabio Vieira (Porto, 35), Turner (New England, 6.36) and Marquinhos (Sao Paulo, 3.5) leaving 132 'kilos'. For now it works the same as a Tottenham in the image and likeness of Conte: Richarlison (Everton, 58), Bissouma (29.2), Udogie (Udinese, 18), Spence (Middlesbrough, 14.7), Perisic (Inter, free) , Forster (Southampton, free) and Lenglet (Barcelona, ​​on loan) improve the 'spurs'.

Liverpool, with doubts at the start of the Premier, ran out of Mané (Bayern, 32) and signed Darwin Núñez (Benfica, 75). A radical change up front that the Uruguayan's red card against Palace has not yet allowed us to see. They have also signed young Fabio Carvalho (Fulham, 5.9), who already has minutes and scores with the first team, Ramsay (Aberdeen, 4.9) and Arthur (Juventus, on loan) at the last minute. The Brazilian midfielder gives Klopp more options in a midfield in which Thiago, Keïta, Henderson are injured...

West Ham on the podium.

Beyond the 'Big Six', the rest of the Premier clubs have been a steamroller for European football. West Ham, with 182 million, was the third highest spender in the old continent after signing Paquetá (Olympique Lyon, 43), Scamacca (Sassuolo, 36), Aguerd (Rennes, 35), Cornet (Burnley, 20, 7), Emerson (Chelsea, 15.4), Kehrer (PSG, 12), Downes (Swansea, 10.65) and Areola (PSG, 9.3). Wolves also went over 100 with Nunes (Sporting CP, 45), Guedes (Valencia, 32.6), Collins (Burnley, 24.3), Kalajdzic (Stuttgart, 18) and Hee-chan Hwang (RB Leipzig, 16 ,7).

The five most expensive signings in the Premier.

    Antony (Manchester United): 100 million euros
    Fofana (Chelsea): 80.4 million euros
    Darwin Núñez (Liverpool): 75 million euros
    Casemiro (Manchester United): 70 million euros
    Isak (Newcastle): 70 million euros

Newcastle also exceeded a hundred (136 million with Isak (Real Sociedad, 70), Botman (Lille, 37), Targett (Aston Villa, 17.5) and Pope (Burnley, 11.5) and Leeds (105.64 in Aaronson (RB Salzburg, 32.84), Sinisterra (Feyenoord, 25), Adams (RB Leipzig, 17), Kristensen (RB Salzburg, 13), Marc Roca (Bayern, 12), Gyabi (City, 5.8) and Joel (Betis, free) .After the departures of Raphinha (Barcelona) and Phillips (City), Víctor Orta has made magic .

Fulham, who registered Carlos Vinicius (Benfica), Kurzawa (PSG), Daniel James (Leeds) and Willian (Corinthians) on the last day, and Southampton, who took over Caleta-Car (Marseille), Maitland-Niles (Arsenal), Larios and Edozie (City) close to closing, encouraged the end of a market in which the Premier once again demonstrated that it has no rival. This has been the case for the last decade. And that Leicester, until they signed Faes (Reims, 17) had not spent all summer. It's never too late.

And this week apparently Chelsea will break all these records if they decide to sign Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for 120 million euros.

Source. Premier League.