Madness of over 1 billion. Lbs: England break transfer record
Madness of over 1 billion. Lbs: England break transfer record
British again failed to break their own transfer record, but that's not all - Premier League clubs spent for the first time more than 1 billion pounds for new recruits. After the window officially closed with the 1 September, clubs from England stood at 1,175,230,000 billion pounds.
13 goals elite English club broke their own transfer record, the most significant of which is Manchester United by attracting the most expensive player in the world Paul Pogba. The Frenchman was worth 89.3 million liras of "red" devils.
The remaining records are Crystal Palace (Christian Benteke - 32 m), Everton (Yannick Bolasie - 30 m), Leicester City (Islam Slim - 29.7 m), West Ham (André Ayew - 20.5 m), Southampton (mountain Bufalo - 16 m), Swansea City (Borja Bastogne - 15.5 m), Bournemouth (Jordan Ayb - 15 m), Sunderland (Didier Ndonga - 13.6 m), Hull (Ryan Mason - 13 m), Watford (Roberto Pereyra - 13 m), West Brom (Nacer Chadli - 13 m ) and Burnley (Jeff Hendrick - 10.5 m).
After United drew Pogba, Premier League clubs can boast the most expensive footballer in their ranks for the first time in 20 years when Newcastle paid 15 million liras Blackburn for Alan Shearer. The mere transfer of Pogba did break the world record which Real Madrid set to attract Gareth Bale from Tottenham.
Other major powers on the continent does not slept during that time. Bundesliga again approached closest to the Premier League, but remained more than double the tiny amount of transfers - 513 million euros, although this is a record. The Germans, however, can boast with 450 million euros for outgoing transfers.
Most money spent Borussia Dortmund € 108.7 million allocated to the eight new recruits. André Schürrle is the most expensive transfer worth 30 million euros from Wolfsburg and the rest are Mario Götze, Usman Dembele, Rafael Gereyro Sebastian Rode, Marc Bartra, Emre Mohr and Mikel Merino. But Borussia players sold for 108 million euros - Henry Mhitaryan, Mats Hummels, Ilkay Gundogan, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Moritz Leitner and Yannick Bandovski.
The most expensive outgoing transfer in Bundesliga was that of Leroy Sanne, who took Schalke 48 million euros from Manchester City. Borussia Monchengladbach did receive 45 million from Arsenal Rights Granit Xhaka.