Matthew German leaving the FC Barcelona at the end of the season as it became official this Tuesday and will head to the Premier League to sign for astonville where is your friend Unai Emery acting as a coach
This will be Barça’s current sports director’s first jump abroad to reach what is, at the moment, the best league in the world. He does this to get into an ambitious club and that, since Emery’s arrival, still had options to get into Europe next season.
What is clear is the astonville is a club where Matthew He will have more peace of mind because he does not have the spotlight that Barça has and, in addition, he is ambitious about his future. This means that the man from Andratx will have a budget equal to the best in Europe (except those in the Premier League) to improve his squad and also try to keep important players like Ollie Watkins.
Taking the latter periods as a reference, the astonville It has not dropped below 100 million in the last four years. The average, in fact, is 122 ‘kilo’, which could be even bigger if the club enters Europe, thus having the challenge of preparing a competitive team in line with Unai Emery.
In fact, the club has had the help since 2018 of the Egyptian billionaire nassef sawris buy acquired 55% of the club from Tony Xia, who bought it in 2016 with the aim of making it ‘top’ in the world. With its new chief executive, the club achieved promotion to the Premier League and in 2019 Sawiris bought the entire club. A change in dynamics that has been evident in the investments made in the club for some time now. In 2018/19 they went from spending 19 million on transfers to, in one year, putting 159 ‘kilos’ on the table.
Under all these areas, at least, Mateu Alemany will have more than 100 ‘kilo’ this summer to find the right players to improve the squad. And if they make it to Europe, I’m sure Sawiris will go the extra mile to try and make it big.
Aston Villa’s spending in previous seasons
1
2022/23100 million
3
2020/2021101 million
2
2021/22129 million
4
2019/2020159 million
Source: La Verdad
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