The Premier League is Europe’s richest football competition — six of its clubs made it into the top 10 of a recent European Money league based on revenue. Spending on Thursday, when the transfer window closed, was £50 million versus last year’s one-day outlay of £150 million, Deloitte said. The biggest deal came at the start of the transfer window when Chelsea signed American Christian Pulisic from Borussia Dortmund for €64 million ($73.4 million). Over the 2018-19 season as a whole, which includes summer 2018 spending, Premier League clubs spent £1.4 billion, Deloitte said, making it the first season since 2011-12 that there has been a decrease in gross transfer expenditure, before adjusting for player sales. France’s Ligue 1, Spain’s La Liga and Germany’s Bundesliga all spent around £65 million each, Deloitte added.

Source: Bangkok Post February 01, 2019 13:30 UTC