European clubs have failed to keep up with their Premier League counterparts in terms of transfer spending during the pandemic a report has found, with Manchester United topping the charts with a net spend of £187million in the past three windows.
A new CIES Football Observatory study has detailed how Premier League clubs have spent lavishly on new players in comparison to those in LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, despite the coronavirus pandemic crippling their revenues.
In total, the English top flight net spent just over £1.