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Author: Bei Guoxia

The 2019-2020 Premier League season officially starts on August 10.

The transfer window closed at 17:00 on August 8th.

This summer window, Manchester United has gained a lot.

Manchester United also ranked first among European football clubs in this summer window with a total investment of 520 million euros in transfer fees.

However, Manchester United only sold people for 250 million euros, so the net investment was only 270 million euros.

And the three people left, Sanchez, Pogba and Lukaku, are all high-paid players.

Although among the people who came, there was also a player with a super high salary.

But overall, Manchester United's summer window is perfect.

In this summer window, the 20 Premier League teams invested a total of 1.7 billion euros in signings this summer, which also set a new record. The previous record for the most investment in a single transfer window in the Premier League was in 2017

In the summer window of 2016, the Premier League teams spent a total of 1.5 billion euros on signings. Manchester United invested the most in this summer window. The second place, which may surprise many people, was Arsenal, who spent 180 million euros in this summer window.

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Manchester City did not make many signings in this summer window, only two. One is midfielder Rodri who spent 70 million euros to import from Atletico Madrid, and the other is Cancelo who spent 65 million euros to import from Juventus.

However, Cancelo's deal is suspected of being accounted for by two clubs, Manchester City and Juventus, because Manchester City's Danilo was sold to Danilo for a transfer fee of 37 million euros.

According to Lineker: "Come on, Juventus's Cancelo is worth at most 40 million euros, and Manchester City's Danilo is only worth 15 million euros. Now the prices of both of them have increased.

Why do you sell me and I sell you?"

However, in the face of doubts from the outside world, neither Juventus nor Manchester City made any further remarks.

Manchester City also spent over 100 million in this summer window, but they also sold people for 53 million, so the net expenditure was only 82 million euros.

Liverpool made very small moves in this summer window, spending 1.9 million euros to sign Van den Berg, spending 2.1 million euros to introduce Elliott from Fulham, and signing Adrian from West Ham United on a visa-free basis.

No more than 5 million euros were spent on the three transactions.

After seeing other Premier League teams spending huge amounts of money, Liverpool spent less than 5 million euros. This also made Liverpool fans very dissatisfied, and there were more and more scoldings against Fenway Group.

Compared to Liverpool's three signings, which cost 5 million, Chelsea only signed one player, but this player spent 50 million euros to introduce Kovacic from Real Madrid. However, this transaction cannot be regarded as

This year's transaction is because Kovacic was loaned in 2018 and officially bought out in 2019. The buyout cost is this money.

The main reason is that Chelsea has a transfer ban this summer window and cannot register new players.

But Chelsea has sold Morata and David Luiz in this summer window, and Hazard's deal was completed early.

Although Chelsea cannot buy anyone in this transfer window, the loan-buyout agreement takes effect in this summer window, so Chelsea seems to have spent 50 million euros in this summer window.

This also made Liverpool fans even more dissatisfied.

"The teams with the transfer ban spent 50 million this summer, which is 10 times more than us!"

Tottenham Hotspur spent 60 million euros to sign Ndombele from Lyon, spent 11 million euros to sign Clark from Leeds United, and signed Lo Celso from Real Betis on a rent-to-buy basis. His choice

The buyout fee is 32 million euros. It cost 27 million euros to sign Sessegnon from Fulham.

All in all, Tottenham spent more than 100 million euros in this summer window. Of course, they also sold, and sold Trippier to Atletico Madrid for 22 million euros. This is really special, because English players rarely go abroad.

As a footballer, Janssen was sold at a price of 6.3 million euros. The remaining players are some players who left the team freely.

Arsenal signed Pepe from Lille for 80 million euros, Ceballos on loan from Real Madrid, Saliba from Saint-Etienne for 30 million euros, and David-David from Chelsea for 11 million euros.

Luis. Signed Tierney from Celtic for 27 million euros. Signed Martinelli from Iduiano for 9 million euros.

Arsenal spent a lot of money in this summer window. They are second only to Manchester United in the Premier League. However, their transfer transactions have not been appreciated by fans. The main reason is that the eye-catching 80 million Pepe was completed at Arsenal.

After this transaction, the local British media quickly ran the headline "Pepe? Who?"

Of course, Arsenal also sold people this summer window, selling Iwobi to Everton for 30 million euros and Ospina to Naples for 3.5 million euros.

This is the transfer situation of the Premier League BIG6. In fact, judging from the transfer situation alone, Manchester United's signings are definitely the most important.

Because Manchester United bought three main players and one rotation substitute player from the Champions League champion team, not to mention signing a talented midfielder, a main winger from Inter Milan, and a main midfielder from Juventus

.In short, this summer window, many media gave Manchester United a high score of more than 95 points for the summer transfer window.

The madness of Manchester United is also the madness of the Premier League. The madness of the Premier League is unparalleled. The Premier League spent a total of 1.7 billion euros in this transfer window, ranking first among all European leagues.

La Liga and Serie A followed closely with investments of 1.32 billion euros and 1.18 billion euros respectively. The Bundesliga and Ligue 1 invested 742 million euros and 670 million euros respectively. The five major leagues occupy the top five positions. The Russian Super League ranks sixth.

It already has only 234 million euros, far behind the first echelon.

From the perspective of net investment, the Premier League has swept away. In the context of Chelsea, a wealthy club that is restricted by the transfer ban and is "crazy for making money", the British powers still burned 742 million euros. Behind them,

The net investment volume of La Liga and Serie A is around 300 million euros, and the Bundesliga net investment is 167 million euros, maintaining a relatively balanced income and expenditure level. Ligue 1 continues the trend of "making money", with revenue of 163 million euros, indicating that its

It is still one of the main "poaching places" for the five major leagues.

The emergence of such a pattern is undoubtedly related to the economic strength of the league. According to a report by Deloitte in May this year, the five major European leagues generated a record revenue of 15.6 billion euros in the 2019-2019 season, exceeding the total revenue of the European football market of 28.4 billion euros.

More than half, with an annual growth rate of 6%. The European football market is currently worth approximately 28.4 billion euros. Under the rules of FFP, "the financial situation is the best ever."

Broken down into various leagues, the Premier League has revenue of 5.44 billion euros, with an average team revenue of 272 million. The Bundesliga has taken advantage of the launch of the new broadcast contract and ranks first in Europe with an average of 43,000 viewers per game to overtake La Liga, with revenue of 3.168 billion euros, with an average team revenue of 3.168 billion euros.

176 million, La Liga's revenue is 3.073 billion euros, the team average is 154 million, Serie A's revenue is 2.217 billion euros, the team average is 111 million, Ligue 1 is relatively weak, the revenue is 1.692 billion euros, the team average is 85 million. The overall revenue of the Premier League is the same as that of the second and second teams.

The sum of the fourth Bundesliga and Serie A is roughly the same, which is the capital they invested in the transfer market.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure. The Premier League is undoubtedly the most commercially successful league at present. Even small and medium-sized clubs can earn more than 100 million yuan in revenue. This is also the case for newly promoted teams or middle and lower reaches such as Aston Villa, Wolves and Brighton.

The reason why the team ranks at the forefront in terms of net investment. The reason why the Bundesliga, which is second in overall revenue, is not as good as La Liga and Serie A in terms of investment is that the Bundesliga pursues a "50+1 policy" and healthy operations are the first priority. Except for Bayern Dortmund

It is difficult for such a top team to have explosive transfers.

As for the single signing.

In an interview not long ago, Ronaldo said this: "Now, the transfer price is a bit unrealistic. Take Felix as an example, any player now, even if he has not proven himself, is worth 100 million euros. This is too

It’s crazy. Now defenders and goalkeepers can sell for astronomical amounts.”

Yes, transfer market inflation is an indisputable fact. Pogba brought transfers into the era of 100 million euros in 2016, and Neymar accelerated this process in 2017. This summer, Madrid and Barcelona each have 100 million euros.

A top-level signing, Rodri with 70 million euros has just squeezed into the top ten. Cristiano Ronaldo, who set the world record for transfer fees ten years ago, has officially fallen out of the top ten.

Not to mention that this summer window also created a historical record for transfer fees - Lin Kedi.

Lin Kedi’s price of 230 million euros has been enough for a long time.

At the same time, sky-high transfer prices are developing towards a younger age. This summer's top bidder Lin Keen is only 18 years old, Pepe, who made Arsenal a rare luxury purchase, is 24 years old, and Lucas Hernan, who set the transfer fee record in Bayern's history, is 24 years old.

Des is 23 years old, De Ligt, whom Manchester United imported from Ajax, is 20 years old, Frenkie de Jong, who also came from the Eredivisie arsenal, is 22 years old, and Manchester City's only heavyweight signing Rodri is 23 years old. In other words,

Half of the top ten players with transfer fees this summer are U23 players, and there are countless young players with 40 million to 50 million euros. This situation is unprecedented.

And half of the top ten stars with transfer fees this summer ended up in the Premier League, which has never happened before.

Many media outlets such as The Times, The Guardian, Bild, L'Equipe and others have released a list of the most expensive players in each position in the 2019 summer window.

Among them, the goalkeeper position is relatively the cheapest position.

The most expensive player in this position is Cillessen, who transferred from Barcelona to Valencia. The transfer fee is 35 million euros. With Cilesen's personal ability, he can serve as the main goalkeeper in a wealthy team. It's just that

Barcelona's main goalkeeper Ter Stegen is too good. In order to get more playing opportunities, Cillessen can only choose to leave the team. In fact, Ten Hag has considered this player before. Of course, it is definitely not replacing Ten Ha at the moment.

Huh, it's just because Ten Hag is not very optimistic about the team's second goalkeeper Romero. It doesn't matter that De Gea is not a ball-oriented goalkeeper. His goalkeeping ability is currently at the top, but the second goalkeeper must find someone who can

So Ten Hag was interested in Cillessen at that time, but the problem was that the reason why Cillessen wanted to leave Barcelona was because he wanted to play as the main force and went to Manchester United. De Gea was the main force.

Why did he go there? So when Ten Hag asked Cillessen's agent and received a clear rejection, Ten Hag gave it up.

For the position of left back, the most expensive transfer fee this summer came from Real Madrid's introduction of left back Mendy from Ligue 1. It cost 48 million euros. This price is still a big investment even in today's transfer market. After all,

The position of full-back has always been characterized by low transfer fees and low value.

As for the right back, it is Cancelo, who came to Manchester United from Juventus for 65 million euros.

In the center back position, the left center back is Lucas Hernandez, who Bayern Munich imported from Atletico Madrid. It cost the South King 80 million euros, and 80 million euros made him the most expensive player in the history of Bayern.

The right center back position is naturally De Ligt. The transfer fee of 120 million euros made the Dutch talented center back the most expensive center back player in football history. However, even at such an expensive price, Manchester United snatched him and many professionals

Football people think they have made money.

The three most expensive players in the midfield position.

They are Rodri, De Jong and Ndombele respectively.

The transfer fees for these three players are 70 million euros, 140 million euros and 60 million euros.

Many newspapers have placed De Jong in the midfielder position, but judging from all the warm-up matches of Manchester United in the new season, De Jong has been placed in the central midfielder position by Ten Hag. In fact, he is more inclined to No. 8

player, organizing a series of forward passes, although he is wearing the No. 6 jersey of Manchester United.

The left winger is Hazard, whose transfer fee reaches 100 million euros. This summer he joined his dream team Real Madrid. Although his contract will expire next year, in the contract year, his transfer fee

It still reached 100 million euros.

The right winger is Griezmann, and Griezmann's actions this summer really surprised many people. This summer, Griezmann's transfer to Barcelona was finally settled. In the previous seasons, there were many rumors about Griezmann.

Rumors of joining Barcelona have never stopped. But this summer, Griezmann finally transferred to Barcelona. The transfer fee was 120 million euros.
To be continued...