I just wanted to know if the amount mentioned includes only the buys by the club or the money spent on the buys after sales of players ?
The figures most media outlets are bandying about are gross of income from player sales. Liverpool's net expenditure, for instance, is about half of the figure listed at the top of this thread.
what really surprised me, was the cost of some of the Championship players. Some of them were 5-10 mil pounds. Seems like the clubs were not getting good value for their $$. I think they could have gotten better players for cheaper from the continent. Eastern Europe is a great source of relatively cheap and quality players. Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Croatia, Romania, all have pretty good leagues with some good players.
The $840 mil figure is the net transfer spending. (Money coming in from transfer MINUS money coming out from transfer) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6976231.stm IN: Summer 2007 : $1.060 billion. January 2007 : ???? OUT: Summer 2007: ???? January 2007: ???? The net amount for summer and jan 2007 spending is $840 mil.
That is true. Manchester United (£51m), Liverpool (£50m) and Tottenham Hotspur (£40m) That is only the IN part. The BBC didn't mention the OUT part. [IN - OUT = net] For example: Real Madrid spent (bought) 116 mil Euros. But they also sold for 30 mil Euros. The net transfer spending is 86 mil Euros. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Madrid#2007.2F2008_transfers IN Pepe (€30M transfer from F.C. Porto) Arjen Robben (€36M transfer from Chelsea F.C) Royston Drenthe (€13M transfer from Feyenoord Rotterdam) Wesley Sneijder (€27M transfer from Ajax Amsterdam) Gabriel Heinze (€10M transfer from Manchester United) OUT 8 MF Emerson (€5M transfer to AC Milan) 11 DF Cicinho (€11M transfer to A.S. Roma) 13 GK Diego López (€6M transfer to Villarreal) 15 DF Raúl Bravo (€2,3M transfer to Olympiacos) 24 DF Álvaro Mejía (€2M transfer to Real Murcia) — DF Carlos Diogo (€6M transfer to Zaragoza) Net transfer: 86 mil euro So that net transfer spending for Real Madrid is around $120 million just for summer 2007. But for the Premiership, it is $840 million (summer and january). That's $840/20 teams = $42 million on average.
Yeah, and a flat average is almost wholly irrelevant. I know you have a bit of a fetish for this sort of stuff, so perhaps the mode figure would be more useful to you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6976231.stm On a net transfer basis - when sales of players were also taken into account - spending by Premier League sides reached £420m during the 2007 January and summer transfer windows, up from £140m in 2006. 420 / 20 teams = 21 million pounds in net spending per team to be exact.
Yes, but as has already been said: a flat average is meaningless. Derby didn't spend half of that amount, United spent more than double it.
yeah a flat average is misleading. arsenal didn't spend anything, they actually made money. Code: PLAYER FROM FEE DATE Lukasz Fabianski Legia Warsaw £2,000,000 26-05-2007 Havard Nordtveit FK Haugesund £500,000* 03-07-2007 Eduardo da Silva Dinamo Zagreb £8,000,000 03-07-2007 Bacary Sagna Auxerre £6,100,000@ 12-07-2007 Lassana Diarra Chelsea £2,000,000 31-08-2007 PLAYER TO FEE DATE Fabrice Muamba Birmingham £2,000,000% 14-05-2007 Jeremie Aliadiere Middlesbro £2,000,000 19-06-2007 Thierry Henry Barcelona £16,100,000 25-06-2007 Fredrik Ljungberg West Ham £2,000,000^ 23-07-2007 Jose Reyes Atletico Madrid £8,100,000 30-07-2007 Net = +£11,600,000 (€16.65m) Notes: *Nordtveit from Haugesund was initially £500k and could rise to £2m after 40 first team appearances. @Sagna from Auxerre was initially £6.1m and could rise to £7.45m. %Muamba to Birmingham was initially £2m and could rise to £4m. ^Ljungberg to West Ham was initially £2m and could rise to £3m.