Premier League leads Europe in transfer spendingspublished at 13:14 British Summer Time<\/p>\n
13:14 BST<\/p>\n
About \u00a34 billion has been spent on transfers by Europe’s top five leagues this summer – that is the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A. <\/p>\n
Of this, the Premier League’s transfer spending has reached about \u00a31.8b since the transfer window first opened at the start of June.<\/p>\n
It is the most amount of money spent by England’s top division in history. <\/p>\n
Of the total figure, more than \u00a31bn has come from six teams, the traditional so-called ‘big six’ in the Premier League era – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham.<\/p>\n
Coming in second place are the Serie A clubs, who have spent more than \u00a3700m on transfers this summer with the Italian league’s top arrival, Ardon Jashari, joining AC Milan for about \u00a331m. <\/p>\n
Luis Diaz’s \u00a365.5m transfer from Liverpool to Bayern Munich is the most expensive buy by a Bundesliga club so far with the German sides splurging more than \u00a3500m in purchases already. <\/p>\n
La Liga has spent around \u00a3425m in incoming with Dean Huijsen’s \u00a350m move from Bournemouth to Real Madrid the most expensive transfer into the Spanish top flight. <\/p>\n
Ligue 1 clubs, meanwhile, have spent a total of about \u00a3300m on new players this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League leads Europe in transfer spendingspublished at 13:14 British Summer Time 13:14 BST About \u00a34 billion has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-67573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}