Transfer Market Dynamics: Top 5s

Some interesting stats here:

Top 5 buyers summer 2010/11 by gross spend

1. €146m - Manchester City
2. €81m - Real Madrid
3. €72m - Barcelona
5. €50m - Juventus
4. €48m - Zenit St. Petersburg*
Source used: Transfermarkt


Top 5 buyers summer 2010/11 by net spend

1. €122m - Manchester City
2. €81m - Real Madrid
3. €47m - Zenit St. Petersburg*
4. €31m - Rubin Kazan*
5. €28m - Barcelona
Source used: Transfermarkt
*note: Zenit play a summer season - includes winter transfers


Top 5 sellers summer 2010/11 by gross income

1. €84m - Valencia
2. €53m - Inter
3. €50m - Benfica
4. €45m - Barcelona
5. €38m - Liverpool
Source used: Transfermarkt


Top 5 sellers summer 2010/11 by net income

1. €51m - Valencia
2. €40m - Inter
3. €22m - Udinese
4. €24m - Nice
5. €20m - Getafe
Source used: Transfermarkt

Would be interesting to see who are nos. 6 and 7 in the Top Buyers lists. ie. if we get rid of the Russian teams since they have a different calendar.

And for the top 5 leagues this summer....

Competition--------------Expenditure-------- Revenue --------------Total

Premier League	379.651.500 £	166.900.500 £	-212.751.000 £
Serie A	265.635.000 £	247.266.000 £	-18.369.000 £
Primera División	234.783.000 £	225.693.000 £	-9.090.000 £
1.Bundesliga	140.940.000 £	127.800.000 £	-13.140.000 £
Ligue 1	125.100.000 £	155.290.500 £	30.190.500 £
SuperLiga	74.025.000 £	121.275.000 £

are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Who have Rubin and Zenit bought for 70 mil?!?

Major signings for these two clubs:

Rubin outgoing:
Bukharov (Zenit) - 12m
Semak (Zenit) - 2m

Rubin incoming:
Boccetti (Genoa) - 10m
Martins (Wolfsburg) - 9m
Kuzmin (Lokomotiv) - 2.5m
Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim) - 20m

Zenit incoming:
Lukovic (Udinese) - 7m
Bruno Alves (Porto) - 22m
Semak and Bukharov (Rubin) - 14m, as above

Kroos wrote:are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Ya, I'm not sure really. Transfers like Milner will cancel out in the net spend. £212m on imports:

Man City account for 100m or so, with Silva, Balotelli, Yaya, Boateng and that LB whose name I forget

Gyan = 13m

Couple of random strikers Utd signed = 15m

Ramires = 17m

Meireles = 14m

Which leaves another ~50m spent on I'm not sure who.

debaser wrote:

Kroos wrote:are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Ya, I'm not sure really. Transfers like Milner will cancel out in the net spend. £212m on imports:

Man City account for 100m or so, with Silva, Balotelli, Yaya, Boateng and that LB whose name I forget

Gyan = 13m

Couple of random strikers Utd signed = 15m

Ramires = 17m

Meireles = 14m

Which leaves another ~50m spent on I'm not sure who.

Arsenal spent approx £10mil on Koscielny, Sandro cost Spurs around £8mil, haven't Birmingham done some spending too?

Kroos wrote:are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Didn't Bremen - one of the top Bundesliga sides - just buy Silvestre? Fack, what quality

Who did Inter sell?

Cheb Hamouda wrote:Who did Inter sell?

Quaresma - 7m
Balotelli - 26m
Fossati, Daminuta, Filkor - 7m
Burdisso - 8m
Half of Jimenez - 3m
Half of Krhin - 2m

I am certain that they haven't accounted for they money we got for Mourinho (another 8m)...

Noah and the Bale wrote:

Kroos wrote:are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Didn't Bremen - one of the top Bundesliga sides - just buy Silvestre? Fack, what quality

on facking free

Doesnt change anything. He is possibly the worst defender i have ever seen play.

Kroos wrote:

Noah and the Bale wrote:

Kroos wrote:are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Didn't Bremen - one of the top Bundesliga sides - just buy Silvestre? Fack, what quality

?
on facking free

Is de bundesliga becomming the EPL in the 90th? Raul, Silvestre... what a piece of crap....

buying big names when past-it or buying big names that never even made it....????

Here are the 25 biggest transfers this summer:
The amount spent by City is ridiculous

1. David Villa (FC Valence > Barça), 40 M€
2. David Silva (FC Valence > Manchester City), 30 M€
- Yaya Touré (Barça > Man City), 30 M€
4. Mario Balotelli (Inter Milan > Man City), 29,5 M€
5. Angel Di Maria (Benfica > Real Madrid), 25 M€
6. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Barça > Milan AC), 24 M€
7. Aleksandar Kolarov (Lazio Rome > Man City), 22,7 M€
8. Yoann Gourcuff (Bordeaux > Lyon), 22 M€
- James Milner (Aston Villa > Man City), 22 M€
- Ramires (Benfica > Chelsea), 22 M€
- Xavier Mascherano (Liverpool > Barça), 22 M€
- Bruno Alves (FC Porto > Zénith St-Pétersbourg), 22 M€
13. Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim > Rubin Kazan), 20 M€
14. Robinho (Man City > Milan AC), 18 M€
- Mesut Özil (Werder Brême > Real Madrid), 18 M€
16. Asamoah Gyan (Rennes > Sunderland), 16 M€
- André-Pierre Gignac (Toulouse > Marseille), 16 M€
18. Loïc Rémy (Nice > Marseille), 15,5 M€
- Diego (Juventus Turin > Wolfsburg), 15,5 M€
- Leonardo Bonucci (Bari > Juventus Turin), 15,5 M€
21. Milos Krasic (CSKA Moscou > Juventus Turin), 15 M€
- Dmitro Chygrynskiy (Barça > Chakhtior Donetsk), 15 M€
23. Miguel Veloso (Sporting > Genoa), 14 M€
- Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Milan AC > Schalke 04), 14 M€
- Sami Khedira (Stuttgart > Real Madrid), 14 M€

Here are the transfers for the E.P only:
Arsenal

French defender Sebastien Squillaci from Sevilla for a fee of €6.5m; French defender Laurent Koscielny from Lorient for a fee of €12m; Brazilian forward Wellington Silva from Fluminense for a fee of €4m; Moroccan forward Marouane Chamakh on a free transfer from Bordeaux.
Aston Villa

Irish midfielder Stephen Ireland from Manchester City.
Birmingham

Belarussian midfielder Aleksandr Hleb on loan from Barcelona; Chilean forward Jean Beausejour from America for a fee of €4.9m; Czech defender Martin Jiranek on loan from Spartak Moscow; French midfielder Charles N'Zogbia from Wigan; Forward Matt Derbyshire on loan from Olympiakos; Spanish midfielder Enric Valles from NAC Breda; Serbian forward Nikola Zigic from Valencia for a fee of €7m; Goalkeeper Ben Foster from Manchester United for a fee of €7m.
Blackburn

Bulgarian forward Ivelin Popov from Litex Lovech for a fee of €3m; Senegalese forward Mame Biram Diouf on loan from Manchester United.
Blackpool

Australian defender David Carney from Twente; Ghanaian goalkeeper Richard Kingson on a free transfer; Israeli defender Dekel Keinan from Maccabi Haifa; French midfielder Ludovic Sylvestre from Mlada Boleslav; Midfielder Chris Basham from Bolton Wanderers; French midfielder Malaury Martin from Monaco; Forward Marlon Harewood on a free transfer from Newcastle United; North Ireland defender Craig Cathcart from Manchester United for a fee of €0.6m; Scottish midfielder Barry Bannan on loan from Aston Villa.
Bolton

Spanish forward Rodrigo on loan from Benfica Lisbon; Croatian forward Ivan Klasnic on a free transfer from Nantes; Spanish defender Marcos Alonso from Real Madrid for a fee of €2.4m; Forward Robbie Blake from Burnley; Bulgarian midfielder Martin Petrov from Manchester City.
Chelsea

Brazilian midfielder Ramires from Benfica Lisbon for a fee of €22m; Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun from Liverpool for a fee of €6m.
Everton

French forward Magaye Gueye from Strasbourg for a fee of €1m; Slovakian goalkeeper Jan Mucha from Legia Warsaw; Forward Jermaine Beckford on a free transfer from Leeds; Portuguese forward Joao Silva from Aves for a fee of €0.6m.
Fulham

Swedish midfielder Alex Kacaniklic from Liverpool; Finnish forward Lauri Dalla Valle from Liverpool; Mexican defender Carlos Salcido from PSV Eindhoven for a fee of €2m; Algerian defender Rafik Halliche from Benfica for a fee of €2.5m; Belgian forward Moussa Dembele from AZ Alkmaar for a fee of €6.5m; Swiss defender Philippe Senderos on a free transfer from Arsenal London.
Liverpool

Defender Paul Konchesky from Fulham for a fee of €5m; Portuguese midfielder Raul Meireles from Porto for a fee of €13m; Australian goalkeeper Brad Jones on loan from Middlesbrough for a fee of €2.8m; Danish midfielder Christian Poulsen from Juventus for a fee of €5.5m; Scottish defender Danny Wilson from Glasgow Rangers for a fee of €2.3m; Midfielder Joe Cole on a free transfer from Chelsea; Serbian midfielder Milan Jovanovic on a free transfer from Standard; Midfielder Jonjo Shelvey from Charlton Athletic for a fee of €2m.
Manchester City

Midfielder James Milner from Aston Villa; Italian forward Mario Balotelli from Inter Milan for a fee of €28m; Serbian defender Aleksandar Kolarov from Lazio for a fee of €19m; Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure from Barcelona; Spanish midfielder David Silva from Valencia for a fee of €32m; Midfielder Alex Henshall from Swindon Town; German defender Jerome Boateng from Hamburger for a fee of €12.5m.
Manchester United

Portuguese forward Bebe from Guimaraes for a fee of €8.8m; Mexican forward Javier Hernandez from Guadalajara Chivas for a fee of €10m; Defender Chris Smalling from Fulham for a fee of €8m.
Newcastle

French midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa from Marseille for a fee of €2.5m; Ivory Coast midfielder Cheikh Tiote from Twente for a fee of €3.5m; Defender Sol Campbell on a free transfer from Arsenal London; Midfielder Dan Gosling on a free transfer from Everton; Defender James Perch from Nottingham Forest for a fee of €1.2m.
Stoke City

Icelandic forward Eidur Gudjohnsen from Monaco for a fee of €2.5m; Jamaican midfielder Jermaine Pennant on loan from Real Zaragoza; Forward Jon Walters from Ipswich Town for a fee of €3m; Trinidad and Tobago forward Kenwyne Jones from Sunderland for a fee of €9.7m; Goalkeeper Carlo Nash from Everton; Belgian midfielder Florent Cuvelier from Portsmouth.
Sunderland

Ghanaian forward Asamoah Gyan from Rennes for a fee of €15.7m; Swedish forward Danny Welbeck on loan from Manchester United; Defender Nedum Onuoha on loan from Manchester City; Argentinean defender Marcos Angeleri from Estudiantes for a fee of €1.8m; Defender Titus Bramble from Wigan Athletic for a fee of €1.2m; Egyptian midfielder Ahmed Al-Muhammadi on loan from ENPPI; Belgian goalkeeper Simon Mignolet from Sint-Truiden for a fee of €2.5m; Paraguayan midfielder Cristian Riveros from Cruz Azul.
Tottenham

Dutch midfielder Rafael van der Vaart from Real Madrid for a fee of €11m; Croatian goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa on loan from Spartak Moscow; French defender William Gallas on a free transfer from Arsenal London; Brazilian midfielder Sandro from Internacional for a fee of €10m.
West Brom

Austrian defender Paul Scharner on a free transfer from Wigan Athletic; French forward Marc-Antoine Fortune from Celtic Glasgow for a fee of €3m; Nigerian forward Peter Odemwingie from Lokomotiv Moscow; Cameroonian midfielder Somen Tchoyi from Red Bull Salzburg for a fee of €2m; Defender Nicky Shorey from Aston Villa for a fee of €1.8m; American goalkeeper Boaz Myhill from Hull City for a fee of €1.8m; Spanish defender Pablo Ibanez on a free transfer from Atletico Madrid; Romanian defender Gabriel Tamas from Auxerre for a fee of €0.9m; Irish midfielder Steven Reid on a free transfer from Blackburn Rovers.
West Ham

Danish defender Lars Jacobsen on a free transfer from Blackburn Rovers; Nigerian forward Victor Obinna on loan from Inter Milan; New Zealand defender Winston Reid from Midtjylland for a fee of €4.2m; Israeli defender Tal Ben Haim on loan from Portsmouth; French forward Frederic Piquionne from Lyon for a fee of €1.2m; Mexican forward Pablo Barrera from Pumas for a fee of €4.7m; German midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger from Lazio.
Wigan

Argentinean forward Franco Di Santo from Chelsea; Midfielder Tom Cleverley on loan from Manchester United; Dutch defender Ronnie Stam from Twente for a fee of €4m; Scottish midfielder James McArthur from Hamilton for a fee of €0.5m; Oman goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi on loan from Bolton Wanderers; Argentinean forward Mauro Boselli from Estudiantes for a fee of €6m; Paraguayan defender Antolin Alcaraz on a free transfer from Brugge.
Wolves

Forward Marcus Bent on loan from Birmingham City; Defender Michael Mancienne on loan from Chelsea; Irish midfielder Stephen Hunt from Hull City for a fee of €3.6m; French defender Steven Mouyokolo from Hull City for a fee of €3m; Scottish forward Steven Fletcher from Burnley for a fee of €7.8m; Belgian defender Jelle van Damme from Anderlecht for a fee of €3.3m

What is the total this year in comparrisson with last couple of years?

Hlebagone wrote:Doesnt change anything. He is possibly the worst defender i have ever seen play.

I have been saying that for years, he has been the worst defender I have ever seen at Inter... by a distance! And we have had our share of poor defenders...

Hlebagone wrote:Doesnt change anything. He is possibly the worst defender i have ever seen play.

Nowhere near as bad as...

Alive and Kicking wrote:Blackpool; Israeli defender Dekel Keinan from Maccabi Haifa

...and I'm not just saying that because Walcott turned him - I've seen him play a couple of times for Maccabi and he is laughably bad.

I wonder how many games he will start - I say no more than 3 unless Blackpool have a major injury crisis.

Ricardo Wetzel wrote:

Kroos wrote:

Noah and the Bale wrote:

Kroos wrote:are you facking serious about the epl

take away man city, there is not just a single good signing ^^

where is all the money gone!! milner :DDD

averagenes and quantity ahead of quality is the new standard in the epl

Didn't Bremen - one of the top Bundesliga sides - just buy Silvestre? Fack, what quality

?
on facking free

Is de bundesliga becomming the EPL in the 90th? Raul, Silvestre... what a piece of crap....

buying big names when past-it or buying big names that never even made it....????

What became clear over the summer is that the top players still don't see the Bundesliga as an option. I seriously doubt Ibrahimovic or Robinho or Mascherano would ever consider playing there. Certainly a healthy league with solid finances, but not a league for stars. The fact that Raul and a Milan reject grace a CL team like Schalke says much.

Yes but this allows local players to perform, the proof is that the level of the national team has improved by alot. In Germany it was never the league for the stars, they only sign the type of playrs that are needed, and given that schalke have no more finishers, raul and huntelaar are suitable, especially raul with his experience and for free can only be a good thing.

I wouldn't say the national team has improved a lot. The national team of the 1990s was fantastic, and actually won something. 2000 and 2004 were blips but Germany generally have solid teams at tournaments. Co-efficient rankings definitely are important indicators of a league's health, but so is what players perceive as the top league. And Spain and Italy have each won honours on the world stage this decade despite having many foreigners.

You could also just look at Cl and here Germany still has quite a bit of catching up to do. I agree with Forza but the future might very well be in Germany and when the comming recession(1-2 years) kicks in the German league might be too strong financially to not attract bigger talent. Currently though I still don't think the domestic talent is quite up there just yet.

its the first time in my lifetime where i dont fear the italien team, germany is simply miles ahead, you had a great generation of footballers, but now its germanys turn


i dont think robinho and ibra first class players, good league players but thats it, only bayern could afford them, but they already have better material


italy won the title on there last possibility, but how many future players have milan and inter now for italy! 1 or 2 !!

Offcourse I am not saying that the German league is the strongest at the moment, what I mean is that Germany is the only league that is taking big steps forward because they are attracting the correct type of players and the ones that dont affect the growth of their local players negatively.

In Italy they have taken big steps behind after calciopoli and only lately are they showing signs that they want to get out of this mess, I never rule them out because they are the true pioneers of beautiful and intelligent football, but by the time they get there Germany will probably become the main force. The national team won the WC before calciopoli really affected italian football, they did not loose their competitive edge by then.

In Spain the national team has won so much recently because it adopted the barcelona style of football which everyone is trying to figure out how to stop it til now. Spanish football is not dynamic enough, it is simpler than it looks, basically you have 4 big guys in defence who can pass well, and the rest are running midgets that are impossible to keep up with so you either foul them and get a red card or exhaust yourself and die out in the end, but once the code is cracked it will be hard for spain to come up with something new.

Germany like Italy are the true masters of european football, Italians look deeper into details than Germany but Germany is a machine that does not die out. Yes in the early and mid 2000s it wasnt the Germany we all know (the league was becoming shit too), and eventhough they could still grind out some good results it wasnt the best German performance. But last world cup Germany looked better than anytime before, their only problem was that they could not crack the code due to their trauma from Spain, but they already established a good future because many of the stars of their campaign were young players who are playing their first major national tournament.