Five Madrid Champions with less expense than Fulham, Brighton…

In 2014, in Lisbon, Madrid raised its tenth European Cup. Then would come the Eleventh (2016), the Twelfth (2017), the Thirteenth (2018) and the Fourteenth of Paris against Liverpool, whose hangover still lingers in Real Madrid. Five Champions in eight calendar years, in nine seasons. A decade of success where, if we take 2012-13 as a reference to complete the decade of campaigns (including the coming summer), he has won as many ‘Orejonas’ as the rest of the continent. The merit is greater if you take a look at balance of expenses in transfers in that section. Real Madrid is the 32ndbehind teams like Zenit Saint Petersburg, Brighton, Fulham or Beijing Guoan…

It is true that the whites had a plus, they had solid foundations with Cristiano Ronaldo as spearhead or the heart of Sergio Ramos to lead from the rear. But this last Championsalready without the Portuguese star or the camero and without flashy signings, they have shown that merengue idyll with their fetish competition goes further. Since the round of 16, all rivals (PSG, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool) had a higher market value than those of Ancelotti. In fact, the Parisian team and Skyblue have spent years chasing a metal, dusting off their wallets, which still resist them, winning the first Champions League. Only Bayern (twice), Barça, Liverpool and Chelsea have managed to win a Champions League in this stretch.

While Madrid presents a negative balance of 146 million of euros. City leads this table with a net expense of 1,053 millionwith his neighbor united second as the only ones to overcome the barrier of 1,000 million. 1,016 for some Red Devils who have not been able to find their way back since Ferguson closed the door on success when he left. PSG is third, with 923 million. Perhaps the fourth surprises, a Arsenal which also does not hit the key and its negative is 609 million. Closing the top-5 the 524 million from Barça.

The Premier, the great indicated

The Premier is the great protagonist of the list, demonstrating the current economic muscle in the islands. Chelsea (8th), Liverpool (9th), Aston Villa (11th), West Ham (12th), Newcastle (13th), Everton (14th), Tottenham (16th), Wolves (17th), Leicester (18th), Crystal Palace ( 21st), Brighton (22nd), Leeds (26th) and Fulham (29th) appear ahead of Madrid in the standings. And other teams such as the aforementioned Zenit (19th, -225 million), Wolfsburg (23rd, -198 million) or Shanghai Port (25th, -195 million), Guangzhou (27th, -172 million), Hebei (28th, -164 million ) and Beijing Guoan (30th, -149 million), as representatives of the undervalued chinese leaguealso have a more negative balance than the recent European champion.

Madrid operations

The great merit of Madrid this decade has been the survival in pandemic football where the cuts drowned the teams, with the construction of the new Santiago Bernabéu as a backdrop. In this, sales have played a key role. Hazard (115 million), Bale (101 million), James (75 million), Jovic (63 million), Militao (50 million), Mendy (48 million), Rodrygo (45 million), Vinicius (45 million), Kovacic (38 million). million) and Courtois (35 million) make up the top-10 most expensive signings in these ten seasonsraising spending up to 1,050 million. Of course, only the Belgian appears among the ten largest disbursements of all time: he is ninth. The 222 and 180 million that PSG paid for Neymar and Mbappé, respectively, top the list. Followed by Dembélé (140 million, Barça), Coutinho (135 million, Barça), João Félix (127 million, Atleti), Griezmann (120 million, Barça), Grealish (117.5 million, City), Cristiano (117 million, Juventus) and Lukaku (113 million, Chelsea) as tenth.

Nevertheless, revenue of 899 million euros, are what have made the whites keep the economy afloat with such solvency. Cristiano (117 million from Juventus), Di María (75 million, United), Morata (66 million, Chelsea), Özil (47 million, Arsenal), Kovacic (45 million, Chelsea), Achraf (43 million, Inter) or Varane (40 million, United) left the coffers with Sufficient liquidity so as not to have to juggle fighting salary limitsSo being able to undertake signings such as the upcoming Tchouaméni or the frustrated Mbappé. Truffled all this with five Champions League…