07 Feb 2016 00:50:10
Top 8 biggest spending clubs in the last 5 years *
So, here's the Biggest spending clubs and trophies won by them in (counting the confirmed transfers of 15/ 16) :
1 - Manchester City €628.25M : 5 trophies - Premier League (2 times), FA Cup, Community Shield, League Cup
2 - Chelsea €609.85M : 5 trophies - Premier League, Champions league, Europa League, FA Cup, League Cup
3 - Manchester United €534.86M : 4 trophies - Premier League (2 times), 2 Community Shields
4 - Real Madrid €522.5M : 7 trophies - La Liga, Champions league, 2 CDRs, Supercopa de Espana, UEFA Super Cup, FIFA Club WC
5 - Barcelona €479M : 12 trophies - La Liga (3 times), 2 Champions leagues, 3 Supercopas de Espana, FIFA Club WC, UEFA Super Cup, 2 CDRs
6 - PSG €470.95M : 8 trophies - Ligue 1 (3 times), 2 Coupe de La Ligue, 2 Trophée des champions, Coupe de France
7 - Liverpool €437.94M : 1 trophy - League Cup (sorry)
8 - Juventus €400.83M : 6 trophies - Serie A (4 times), Supercoppa, Coppa Italia
Source : Checked every transfer window manually (Wikipedia, Transfermarkt. ) .
Don't no if it's 100% accurate but gives us an idea how bad are recruitment is .
07 Feb 2016 13:31:19
In the cases of most of them teams they are either dominant in a league with little or no competition (psg, Barcelona and Real Madrid) or they are already established winners. Man City being an exception but they are top of that list.
We have been playing catch up for many many years.
Besides it's not what you spend, it's how you spend it, you could easily argue man city have underperformed for example.
07 Feb 2016 13:38:22
What you can't argue is that Liverpool have definately under performed.
07 Feb 2016 13:46:33
That's my point mikey, are transfer dealings have been awful . And you say most are dominant in there leagues or with no competition but shouldn't we be challenging for the prem at least and getting in the top 4 most years?
07 Feb 2016 13:41:13
Mikey1985, you talk about being teams dominant in their leagues, that we've been playing catch up for many years but kind of counter it with a: besides, it's not what you spend, it's how you spend it. I am puzzled? I think that is exactly the point Red j is trying to make - that we have to spend whatever we got better.