Diego Charles, holding a Champions team like Sevilla. Last year’s Premier League’s 14th came, the Aston Villa, and tab it. Alexander Isaacthe goal man of a Real Sociedad combined in the second step of LaLiga and ready to go far to European League. Although it was only classified 11th, Newcastle, put 70 million and took the Swede. And Brighton, the 9th, left Unai Emery Pervis Estupinan in exchange for almost 18 million to Villarreal, while Valencia was unable to refuse Wolverhampton’s 32.6 million for Goncalo Guedes. It is more difficult for the Ché club to rediscover what it should be because of history and tradition.
It doesn’t matter that it’s a more modest team looking at players on teams with more aspirations. The rich Premier arrives, applies goose paste and hides it. The economic prosperity in which the English league swims, and at the same time, the demand that squeezes the Spanish clubs is imposed on sports status. As another good example, the sale of kieran tripper at Newcastle of Atlético. A relief for the box, a problem for Simeone on the right side expected to finish Nahuel Molina.
Looking at the last 10 years, examples of how the English lower-middle class has been strengthened at the expense of the Spanish upper middle class follow one another. Rodrigo, transferred by Valencia in 2020 to recently promoted Leeds for a hefty 30 million is another significant example. That summer, the team then coached by Marcelo Bielsa also acquired an international from Real Sociedad as Diego Llorente for 20 million. That’s surprising too Paul Fornals left Villarreal for West Ham in 2019 in exchange for 28 million and that Vincent Iborra He left Seville in 2017 to sign for Leicester for 15 million.
However, the case of Iborra is not as remarkable as in Gary Medell, the heart of the Sevilla midfield who in 2013 went to a recently promoted team like Cardiff City for 13 million. The move from a consolidated team in the First Division or with European aspirations to a newly promoted Englishman has had more precedents over the past decade: Amrabatoffensive mainstay of a Malaga then settled in the First Division, signed for Watford in 2015 for 8.4 million while Valencia, in the context of economic and sporting instability -except for Marcelino’s phase-, in recent years, sold in Antonio Barragan on new promotions Middlesbrough in 2016 in exchange for 2.7 million.
And, although his fate was not that of a newly ascended and it was far from time, Paul Hernandez He left Valencia for Swansea in 2012, while that same summer, Levante, who would play in the Europa League that season, moved their scorer for 3.8 million, Arouna Kone, up to 15th in the Premier, with Roberto Martínez’s Wigan involved in the FA Cup winning controversy but dropping that course 12/13. The ‘granota’ club did not spend that money on replacement, Obafemi Martins, because it comes free.
The capacity of the Premier’s minors to pay LaLiga’s majors millions
Apart from this type of operation, and in another example of the economic power of the Premier, mediocre teams in the English league or lower status also have the ability to take the thrown away or the expensive footballers of the LaLiga giants. The most benefited in this sense is the Barcelonawho have found a lucrative outlet in England in recent years for some signings who don’t suit up, or youngsters who don’t count as Adama Traore, sold to Aston Villa in 2016 for 10 million. The winger will return on a free in the last winter market to join Wolverhampton in June following the move.
In the 18/19 season, Everton will leave Barça’s coffers 30 million for Yerry mine and 20 for Lucas Digne and 25 for Andre Gomes in 19/20. Also in the 18/19 academic year, Barça sold Gerard Deulofeu to Watford for 13 million, while in the 20/21 market Wolverhampton invested 32 million for Nelson Semedo and on 21/22 Leeds paid 15 for Junior Firpo and Wolverhampton 6 by Trincao.
Tottenham, where Lenglet was on loan, also paid 25 EmersonRoyal last year. This summer Barça’s great operation with the Premier in terms of sales is the transfer of Coutinho to Aston Villa for 20 million.
However, Atlético have also done profitable business with modest Premier League clubs in recent years, selling Wolverhampton to Diogo Jota for 14 million and Johnny Otto by 21 in the 18/19 season, both costly for Simeone. Another precedent is Borja Cane. Despite scoring 18 goals with Eibar in the First Division in the 15/16 season, the striker did not count on the Argentine coach and Swansea paid the mattress club 18 million for him.
There is more investment from the Premier in LaLiga than vice versa
Besides the cache of the team, if we compare the operations of the last decade between LaLiga and the Premier, the English league has invested more in the Spanish than the other way around. The number of transferred players is indicative, because while the Premier got 101 football players of LaLiga in the last 10 years, they just reached 63 from the British Isles to Spain. In this way, Premier has been invested since the 12/13 academic year 2.17 billion in LaLiga, twice as much as our domestic championship in the English league, 1,104 million.
Premier spending on LaLiga and LaLiga on Premier
last 10 years
Premier LaLiga
The
12/13: 56 70
13/14: 160 112
14/15: 286 117
15/16: 114 83
16/17: 177 15
17/18: 215 264
18/19: 245 105
19/20: 187 158
The20/21: 244 35
21/22: 238 86
22/23: 247 58
The most striking fact is that the pandemic did not change the investment of the Premier in LaLiga as it did in the opposite case. In this last market, the English teams spent 247 million in getting players from Spain, while the Spanish league just disbursed 58 for Premier League players, which is what Barça paid Leeds for Raphinha.
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Most expensive LaLiga-Premier transfers in the last 10 years (fixed values)
1
Kepa -Athletic-Manchester United- 80 million
two
Maria said – R. Madrid-Man. united- 75 million
3
Casemiro – R. Madrid – Man. United – 70 million
3
Isaac – Royal Society – Newcastle – 70 million
5
bruise -Real Madrid-Chelsea- 66 million
6
Laporte -Athletic-Manchester City- 65 million
7
Rodry – Athletic – Manchester City – 62.5 million
8
Thomas – Athletic – Arsenal – 50 million
9
Ozil – Real Madrid – Arsenal – 47 million
10
Otamendi – Valencia – Man. City – 44.5 million
The total investment of the last decade of one and another league in signings, although it shows a huge difference, is another figure that highlights the advantage of the rich Premier, who spend €18.65 billion with the signing of 7,310 from LaLiga. However, the irony of the increasingly frequent transfer of players from Spanish teams with high aspirations to other more modest English teams is the greatest paradigm, the ironic symbol of the power of the rich Premier League.
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Most expensive Premier-LaLiga transfers of the last 10 years
1
Coutinho – Liverpool – Barca – 135 million
two
risk- Chelsea-Real Madrid- 115 million
3
never mind – Tottenham – Real Madrid – 101 million
4
Luis Suarez – Liverpool – Barca – 82 million
5
Diego Costa – Chelsea – Athletic – 60 million
6
raphinha – Leeds – Barca – 58 million
7
Fernando Torres – Manchester City – Barca – 55 million
8
bruise – Chelsea – Athletic – 50 million
9
Modric – Tottenham – Real Madrid – 35 million
10
Courtois -Chelsea-Real Madrid- 35 million
Source: La Verdad
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