A new summer market is approaching and LaLiga teams are looking to release a good number of footballers. With Saudi Arabia interested in cracking the transfer market, the main fear of Spanish clubs continues to be the Premier League. Thanks to its television rights distribution system, the English domestic competition reaches the summer of 2023 more competitive than the Spanish one. English clubs have enough solvency to make big outlays to make big-name signings. Spanish fans are more diligent every day following the Premier from afar because of the competitiveness of the average teams and the speed of their game. La Liga has a problem.
Last summer, the Premier League overtook LaLiga on the right. In the summer transfer market, Spanish clubs found themselves nothing to do cannot compete with English in economic offer. The migrations that took place in the British Isles were very exaggerated due to the economic solvency that most of their clubs have. In total, only in transfers between LaLiga and Premier, the English finished the cycle in 252 million in expenditure and only 63.5 in incomecloses on February 1 with a negative difference of 189 million.
Casemiro and Isak, the most expensive signings
The main difference between the Premier League and LaLiga is the economic capacity that mid-table teams have to make big signings. The player from LaLiga who left the most money at his original club was alexander isak. Newcastle, who finished the season 11th, paid 70 million for the Swedish striker. With his inclusion, Newcastle improved its performance: it finished fourth in the Premier League. Isak was injured, but after he returned to the pitch, he scored 10 goals in 22 games. For their part, ‘las urracas’ released Federico Fernández, who arrived at Elche CF last summer. Newcastle, as a whole, He spent 185 million and entered only 13.
The same, 70 million, paid Manchester United for Carlos Henrique Casemiro. The footballer arrived from Real Madrid and it was the most expensive transfer in LaLiga. But the red devil spent 95 million in Antony, 57 in Lisandro Martínez… In other words, a sudden cost to return to the Champions League. They spent, between the summer market and the winter market, a total of 243 million, and only 13 entered. Furthermore, after paying 70 million for Casemiro, Cavani and Telles came to LaLiga for free.
Chelsea were the team that spent the most money last season. 611 million of investment in players for only 67 of the profit. aubameyang for 12 million and joao felix, with a transfer worth 11 million, they packed their bags to live in London. On the other hand, the blues release for free Christensen, Rudiger and Marcos Alonso, which cost 40, 32 and 5 million respectively. They only received 500,000 euros from Valladolid for Kenedy.
Another team that surprised last summer was the Aston Villa. After finishing the 14th season, spent 65 million on LaLiga players. The Birmingham team paid 31 million for Diego Carlos20 for Coutinho and by Alex Moreno they disbursed 13.5. In addition, Agustinsson’s half-time loan is worth half a kilo. Besides, Brighton paid 17.8 million to Villarreal for Pervis Estupiñán and release Florin Andone.
Raphinha, LaLiga’s only good signing
The only English team to face in this war of movements is FC Barcelona. The culé team paid 58 million euros for Raphinha, almost the same as Manchester City spent on Haaland. Leeds United are the only English team along with Southampton who, after making exchanges in LaLiga, have settled the account positively. Those from Ellan Road brought in 58 million, while those from saints They received 5.5 million in exchange for Oriol Romeu.
Today, a debate is unfolding in world football. How will the big leagues deal with the Premier? How will they compete this summer against a giant? In fact, the meat of the debate is whether the money spent by English teams on footballers -more than 3,000 million last season compared to 558 in LaLiga- They serve to make their teams more competitive in Europe.
In the 2019/2020 season, the spending of LaLiga teams and the Premier is equal. The Spanish spent 1,539 million euros and the English, 1798, Only 16%. However, in the 2022/2023 season, they spent 551% of the money spent in Spain.
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
