There are eight days left until the end of the winter football market. The impression is that 90% of the big deals have already been concluded. Maybe Chelsea could ‘treat’ us with another bomb, possibly another Premier League player, but we shouldn’t expect any exhibitions from the others. The transfer window will probably end as it began – cautiously. Hence, we can already conclude that the continental part of Europe is falling behind the Premier League in general.This January transfer window 😳 Chelsea: €143.5MBundesliga, LaLiga, Ligue 1, Serie A COMBINED: €73.4M pic.twitter.com/sdk3rMJ7Al— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) January 20, 2023 With 429,640,000 euros spent after two-thirds of the transfer window, the Premier League side have seriously threatened the record winter market made at the beginning of 2018, which they also own. Then they listed over 560,000,000. So if three or four other clubs are activated in the last couple of days, there is no doubt – over half a billion will be spent. No worries for the English, that’s clear as day, but it’s not the same for the rest of Europe. This winter and this year’s market perhaps shows how big is the current gap between the financial possibilities of even mediocre Premier League clubs compared to some more successful representatives of Spain, Italy, Germany.Todd, is everything OK? It has been two days that you haven’t signed a new playerBournemouth spent 22 million euros for Ouattara, Nottingham Forest almost the same for Danilo (20 million), and that’s the entire amount spent in Italy and France together?! Or let’s take Liverpool’s Cody Gakpo as an example. The Reds paid 42,000,000 euros. And only half a million more went to the reinforcements of 18 German Bundesliga players. Not to mention Chelsea’s transfers…##NAJAVA_MECA_6962783##Many may be surprised that MLS is in the second position in terms of investments this winter, but we have had such cases in previous years as well. The Argentines are at the top, while the Spanish, Portuguese and Russian leagues in fifth, sixth and seventh place have similar expenses – around 20 million euros. A drastic drop in investment was registered by Italian clubs with only 9,070,000 euros. So all 20 clubs less than 10,000,000? Chelsea gave more for Brazilian kid Santos (12,000,000) who will not even play in the first 11 and will be loaned out. And just two years ago, in the winter of 2021, Serie A was the leader of the January market with close to 110 million spent on newcomers. When we talk about earnings, French clubs collected the most – 107,400,000. They are followed by the Dutch Eredivisie (84,360,000) and the Ukrainian Premier League (75,920,000). From the so-called ‘minor leagues’, the Danes (35,590,000), Norwegians (25,240,000) and Croats (19,400,000) recorded a serious balance (difference between earnings and consumption).##NAJAVA_MECA_6961638##
