February 9 – Manchester City may be facing more than 100 charges of breaches of the Premier League’s financial fair play rules, but from 2018 to now the club has been the model sensible dealing in the transfer markets compared to their Premier League competitors.
Research by the CIES Football Observatory into the net spending (including add-ons) on transfers over the past five seasons show Manchester City with a deficit over the period of €128 million.
That places them 27th in the ranking of the 100 clubs with the highest volume of trade – there are 15 Premier League clubs with a higher transfer deficit for the five years reported above them.
Chelsea has the most negative balance with a deficit of €749 million, of which a record €620 million during the current season, ahead of Manchester United (-€670m) and Arsenal (-€544m).
The highest ranked of the non-Premier League clubs is 9th-placed Juventus (-€337 million). Barcelona (-€257 million), AC Milan (-€227 million), PSG (-€212 million) and Olympique Marseilles (-€192 million), are the other clubs outside the EPL in the top 20.
“Benfica tops the list of positive balances with net revenues of €369 million, including €157 million in the current season, notably thanks to the record transfer of Enzo Fernández to Chelsea,” finds the CIES report.
“LOSC Lille (+€308 million) and AFC Ajax (+€293 million) complete the podium of the main beneficiaries, ahead of three other clubs used to generating revenue through the development of talent, either locally trained or recruited young: RB Salzburg, Sporting Clube de Portugal and Olympique Lyonnais.”
There are 17 countries represented in the 100 most active teams on the transfer market over the last five seasons in terms of monetary trade volume with England leading the way with 25 clubs.
“Only two have a positive net spending (Watford and Norwich City). In terms of trade volume, Chelsea (€2.0 billion) are ahead of Juventus (€1.56 billion), Barcelona (€1.51 billion), Manchester City (€1.4 billion) and Real Madrid (€1.27 billion),” finds the report.
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